R. C. Sproul
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1,129 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
R. C. Sproul’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that he will die in faith.
Well, I've already told you my mother's last words.
This is the happiest day of my life.
And those are words that I remember with great joy.
And confidence it's not the same way with my father's last words.
When I was fourteen years old, my father was stricken with a stroke that was severe.
And that stroke left him paralyzed in half of his body.
His one side was virtually useless, he couldn't use his arm, he couldn't use his leg and his his mouth drooped, his speech was impaired and he lost the vision in one side, one eye.
And with that devastating stroke, it was the end of his career, was the end of his income.
And the doctors told him and told my mother at that time that there was no cure for the problem that he had.
And that he would slowly
Die.
Well, it took him three years to die and he had three more strokes in the course of that time before he finally did die.
And he spent the last three years of his life confined to a chair.
In the den of our home.
There's an overstuffed chair.
And he had weights there on his legs and he had this great big magnifying glass that he used for the one good eye he had.
And all he did in those last three years was to sit there and read the Bible, which was somewhat surprising to me because he wasn't a particularly religious fellow, and I had no understanding of the Christian faith at that time.
Uh I was as pagan as a young boy could be and
a secular uh our family was not, as I said, a deeply religious family by any means, but in those last three years my father began to think about
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