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He was a prominent leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, a Baptist minister, and a close friend and associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. Following King’s assassination in 1968, he took up the leadership position of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Poor People’s Campaign and led the March on Washington, D.C. that had been planned for May 1968. At the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, he served as pastor of the largest black church in Montgomery, AL, and led the way in distributing flyers asking blacks to boycott Montgomery buses. For 13 years, from 1955 to 1968, he walked with King on his journey to tear down the walls of segregation and discrimination in the South. He endured bombings, beatings, jail time, confiscation of his family inheritance, and continual threats to march through the streets of the South proclaiming, “Let my people go.” He was with King on the night of his assassination and cradled him in his arms, as King took his last breath. After King’s death, he continued the civil rights work that had been started. During his lifetime, he was honored with more than 300 awards and citations, including five Honorary Doctorate Degrees. He died in 1990.

When asked by a college student how he came to know Jesus Christ as his Saviour, he said, “When I was a young boy I went to the altar one Sunday morning in my father’s Baptist church and there I met Jesus Christ. And I’ve never been the same.” He said on another occasion, “Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” His name is Ralph David Abernathy, Sr.

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He is a Christian hip hop artist signed to Reach Records, the record label that he co-founded. He has released five solo studio albums, and he is a member of the rap group 116 Clique, with whom he frequently collaborates. He has won numerous awards including Best Hip-Hop Music Video for the GMC Music Video Awards, Best Male Artist for 2006, and Best Album for 2006. He has also been nominated for a GMA Dove Award 5 times. His discography includes, “Real Talk”, “After the Music Stops”, “Rebel”, “Rehab”, and “Rehab: The Overdose”.

Raised by a single mother in Houston, Texas, he moved around a lot in his early years and soon dicovered rap as a way to convey his feelings to others. Before starting college, he was almost arrested for drug possession. When the police officer saw a Bible on the back seat of his car, he asked what it was. He told him, “I know I need to live it.” That night, the officer made a deal with him that if he agreed to live by the Bible, the officer would let him go. Soon after, a Christian leader encouraged him to attend a conference where he heard James G. White speak. From this encounter, he gave his life to Christ and became passionate about Jesus Christ and Christianity. This led him to print his salvation testimony and pass it out across the University of North Texas campus. After graduating from the University of North Texas, he began volunteering at a juvenile detention center and began work on his debut album. In 2005, he co-founded ReachLife Ministries which is a non-profit organization that exists to help equip local Christian leaders with tools and media projects that are culturally relevant and based on the teachings of the Bible.

He says of his faith and his work, “I think every rapper is a preacher, it’s what’s the sermon that they are giving. Every rapper is preaching something. They are either preaching that you can find satisfaction in a million dollars or 50 women, or that you are not a real man unless you are a killer. I just look at myself as another individual who has a different message and a world view that I think is the most beneficial, the most helpful, and I’ll be honest, it’s the right one…I think a Biblical world view is the right world view.” His name is Lecrae Moore.

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He is a British journalist, news anchor, and media personality. He currently anchors his own afternoon show on MSNBC. He is also a contributor for NBC News’ Dateline program. He was previously an anchor for ABC’s Nightline and is best known for his interview with the late Princess Diana (which remains the only television interview with her) and his well-received documentary on the late king of pop, Michael Jackson. He has won several awards for his work including three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, five Royal Television Society Awards and two Broadcasting Press Guild awards.

He was born to Christian Indian parents in South London. After he interviewed Pastor Rob Bell regarding his controversial book, “Love Wins”, some began to question whether he was a Christian himself. He clarified in an interview with Paul Edwards that he is a “committed Christian”, married to a Christian wife, and that they attend Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City where Timothy Keller is the pastor. His name is Martin Bashir.

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He is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African-American to hold this office. He served for over 27 years as a chaplain in the United States Navy, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral and ending his career as the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy, the senior chaplain of the United States Navy Chaplain Corps. He officially retired from the Navy on August 15, 2003. He has been honored in many ways for his achievements, including the NAACP’s Renowned Service Award in 1995 and the Benjamin Elijah Mays Distinguished Leadership Award in 2002.

Growing up in poor, inner-city public housing in Baltimore, Maryland, his mother instilled in him a love for the Bible and made sure that he received a Christian education. His father, who was a truck driver, was rarely home, and when he was home, he drank excessively and spent little time with his children. As he got older, he and his siblings would pray for their father and their father eventually came to Christ. He says of his own salvation experience, “I had no idea that when I was running with gangs that I would find God. He [Jesus] filled the emptiness [in my life]. I’m just a boy from the ‘hood, but I encountered Someone who made a difference in my life. He walks with me. He talks with me. When I wake up in the morning, He’s there. He tells me that He loved me so much that He died a death that no one deserves to die.” His name is Barry Black.

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He played quarterback for three NFL teams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. Originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent after playing college football in 1994, he would go on to be considered one of the best undrafted players of all time, with a 12-year career regarded as one of the greatest stories in NFL history. He won two NFL MVP awards in 1999 and 2001 with the St. Louis Rams as well as the Super Bowl MVP award in Super Bowl 34. He led the 2008 Arizona Cardinals to Super Bowl 43 and owns the three highest single-game passing yardage totals in Super Bowl history. He currently holds the seventh-highest career passer rating of all-time and the third-highest career completion percentage in NFL history. He retired from the NFL in 2010 and is now an analyst with the NFL Network.

Growing up in a Catholic household, faith in God was not something he took seriously. He said, “Faith wasn’t the reason I lived my life. God wasn’t the focus of everything I did. He was just kind of a part of it. I went to Mass and felt like it was more of a thing I was supposed to do more than necessarily wanting to do it or wanting to have that strong relationship…but I really didn’t know the extent that I needed to give my life to Him like I do now.” After a tornado touched down in Arkansas in 1996 killing both of his wife’s parents, he realized that he needed a change. He says of that experience, “That situation showed me that you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. You have to live life for today and for this moment. It was at that point that I realized the Lord needed to be at the center of my life. I couldn’t wait until tomorrow or next year. It needed to be right now.” He continues, “Thanking God is a constant thing in my life. It is not just for something specific He did on the football field to help us win; it is for everything that He has done in my life up to that point and for everything He will continue to do in my life from here until eternity.” His name is Kurt Warner.

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He is the latest sensation to hit the sports world. He is considered to be “the Tim Tebow of the NBA”.

After receiving no athletic scholarship offers out of high school and being undrafted out of college, the 2010 Harvard University graduate reached a partially guaranteed contract deal later that year with his hometown Golden State Warriors. After his first year, he was waived by the Warriors and the Houston Rockets in the preseason before joining the New York Knicks early in the 2011–2012 season. He is the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. He is credited with helping the New York Knicks win several recent games and the term “Linsanity” has been coined based upon his extraordinary talent.

While at Harvard, he was co-founder of a Bible study group run by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship. Following his sudden rise to stardom, he said, “I’m thinking about how I can trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring Him more glory?” An outspoken Christian, he has made it no secret that he thanks God for everything in his life. He says he would one day like to be a pastor who can head up non-profit organizations, either at home or abroad. He said “everything in my life is a blessing from God. I look back and I realize these are His fingerprints all over my story. Our true prize … was something in heaven, not on earth. I realize I [have] to learn … to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth … and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.” His name is Jeremy Lin.

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Jesus said, “Here I stand
Won’t you please let me in?”
And you said, “I will tomorrow”

Jesus said, “I am He who supplies all your needs
And you said, “I know, but tomorrow
Ooh, tomorrow, I’ll give my life”
Tomorrow, I thought about today
But it’s so much easier to say”

Tomorrow, who promised you tomorrow
Better choose the Lord today
For tomorrow very well might be too late

And who said tomorrow would ever come for you
Still you laugh and play and continue on to say, “Tomorrow”
Forget about tomorrow, won’t you give your life today

Please don’t just turn and walk away
Tomorrow, tomorrow is not promised
Don’t let this moment slip away
Your tomorrow could very well begin today.

These are the words to a famous song written by Carvin Winans and Deborah Winans, and first sung by Carvin and his brothers Marvin, Michael, and Ronald in 1984. Carvin, Marvin, and their youngest brother, BeBe Winans sung this song again at Whitney Houston’s homegoing service on Saturday, February 18, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey at the New Hope Baptist Church.

The words to this song are a powerful reminder to all of us that tomorrow is not promised us. James 4:13-14 states, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” I am sure that Whitney Houston looked forward to attending her music mentor, Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party in the days before her death. She even told him that she was working on getting her voice back and that she would be “ready by August”. By many accounts she was looking forward to the future and to doing what she loved to do and spending time with her precious daughter, Bobbi Kristina. And for those of you who think that Whitney Houston had a death wish or a suicidal mentality, I assure you that the last thing on earth she wanted to do was die with her daughter just turning 18 years old. But “tomorrow” never came for Whitney Houston. Tomorrow is not promised to come for you or for me. Since today is all we have, this moment is all we have, the question is if you were to die today, are you ready to meet your Creator? Apparently, Whitney Houston was ready to meet Jesus Christ. Somewhere in her young life, she decided to believe in Jesus Christ. She loved Him and she knew that He loved her. She did not put off believing in Jesus until “tomorrow”. 2 Corinthians 6:2 states, “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Dear friend, many people who were alive yesterday are dead this morning. Many people who thought they would be here today are not here. So, “Don’t let this moment slip away.” Don’t put off accepting Christ until tomorrow or until some other time. “Your tomorrow could very well begin today.” If you want to be ready to meet your Creator as Whitney Houston was, allow me to show you how:

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The night before Whitney Houston suddenly died, she sang the words to an old hymn titled “Yes, Jesus Loves Me” at a pre-Grammy party. This song has been sung by young children in Sunday School and prominent musical artists alike down through the years. Allow me to read a few lines of this wonderful song:

Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.

Jesus loves me! He will stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.

Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.

As far as we know, “Yes, Jesus Loves Me” is the last song that the queen of pop, Whitney Houston, who many are calling “the Voice”, sung. We all want to experience love in our lives. We want to know that someone loves us just for who we are. Well, God is really the only Somebody who loves us just for who we are, unconditionally and fully, without fail. He offers the kind of love that makes life worth living. Yes, indeed, Jesus does love you and Yes, indeed, Jesus does love me, and Yes, indeed, Jesus does love Whitney. His love is a love that you don’t have to earn. It is an unconditional love that is stronger than any human love. We do not know if Whitney Houston was a Christian or not. We hope that when she was a little girl singing at New Hope Baptist Church that she accepted Christ into her heart. We do know however that if she received Jesus Christ into her heart and believed that Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again, her soul is now at rest in Heaven with the Lord. Do you want to experience this unconditional love of God in your life and go to Heaven when you die? Well, let me show you how.