[TigerClaws]

It's a must read! Check it out.

[Bellflower]

Wow, what a great letter! Praise The LORD!!! And to think that we Christians will after many, many years all will be great friends with Ronny.

[Sontagged]

I know from a close family member that Loyal Davis was a terrific hard *ss who put the fear of God in his students.

Didn’t know he wasn’t a Christian who didn’t believe in God, though.

Perhaps his lack of faith had to do with his freemasonry.

[ConservativeMind]

Truly beautiful.

May we all be so fortunate as to see Ronald Reagan in Heaven.

[21twelve]

Reagan laid it out well in good fashion. Just don’t look at the WP reader’s comments.

[Monterrosa-24]

My father was a renowned neurosurgeon and the head of the Dept. of Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt for many years. He was friends with Dr. Davis and attended his funeral where he saw the President and Mrs. Reagan. Another one of Daddy’s friends was Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon in North Carolina. His son, also named Eben, and also a neurosurgeon, wrote the widely discussed book, Proof of Heaven, which dealt with his near-death experience.

[Eagles6]

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[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for that. Not only is it impressive what Reagan was trying to do here, it was impressive the faith he had to write such a letter. He knew God would carry the load, as soon as he Ronnie put his name on it.

Decades later, the letter serves to minister to those who read it again now for the first time.

We are indeed fortunate to have a God that asks us only to do good things. He doesn’t ask us to go to foreign lands and kill innocent people. He doesn’t ask us to execute people for no other reason than that they don’t worship Him.

He asks us to accept the sacrifice of His Son, and cling to that sacrifice as the payment for our sins.

This is the good news. God is looking for followers. He is willing to lighten our load, no matter what it is. Even if there is no solution, He can give us peace, if we will only accept it.

If we accept it, believe in it, we can sleep tonight without a worry in the world. God will help us to do that. Believe it.

[Vendome]

Wow...

[Auntie Mame]

The WaPo doesn’t allow me to read that article. However, I found this, very powerful, about the letter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUhdUUW7bM

[Kickass Conservative]

The Letter is uplifting and thoughtful.

It renews your Faith in Humanity.

Then you read the Comments below the Article from the typical Washington Post Readers and you end up right back where you started.

[Nailbiter]

ping

[ZagFan]

And to think his atheist son Ron does commercials for separation of church and state, the one where he says he’s not afraid of burning in hell. Disgraceful.

[Dave W]

Thanks.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

By Josh Benner, an associate pastor at Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He has a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Reagan felt compelled to stress the importance of faith.

The most powerful man in the world pointing someone to the most powerful being in the universe.

The newly published letter was discovered by Washington Post writer Karen Tumulty who was going through a box of Nancy Reagan’s personal effects in researching for a book on the former first lady.

Reagan’s letter is a work of apologetics where he looks at Jesus as having come in fulfillment of prophesies. Using a similar line of reasoning to C.S. Lewis, Reagan talks of how Jesus either was who he claimed to be or a great con man (which would beg the question of why he would follow a “lie” to the point of dying for it). Reagan talks of the impact that this one man (who had such a short ministry) has had on the rest of the history of the world:

The miracle is that a young man of 30 yrs. without credentials as a scholar or priest began preaching on street corners. He owned nothing but the clothes on his back & he didn’t travel beyond a circle less than one hundred miles across. He did this for only 3 years and then was executed as a common criminal.

But for two thousand years he has … had more impact on the world than all the teachers, scientists, emperors, generals and admirals who ever lived, all put together.

Reagan talks of the importance of faith in Jesus and ends the letter by appealing to his father to put himself in God’s hands.

I appreciate this letter. Presidents are complicated individuals and Reagan’s faith is a subject of debate. But in this letter, his sincere desire is for his father-in-law to place faith in Jesus. He thought sharing the gospel with a beloved family member was worth

[Wonder Warthog]

"It's a must read! Check it out."

Can't. They object to my ad blocker and I am sure as hell not going to subscribe or disable my blocker.

[Albion Wilde]

The first letter I opened was from a lady — a stranger... She had written to tell me she was one of a group who met every day to pray for me... the second letter was from a man, again a stranger... telling me he was part of a group that met weekly to pray for me.
Within the hour a young fellow... came into my office on some routine matter. On the way out he... said: “Gov. I think maybe you’d like to know — some of us on the staff come in early every morning and get together to pray for you.”
Coincidence? I don’t think so. A couple of weeks later Nancy and I went down to L.A. and had our annual checkup. [Dr] John Sharpe, a little puzzled, told me I no longer had an ulcer but added there was no indication I’d ever had one.

[Sans-Culotte]

Surprised this was in the Wapo.