Dr. Dwight Pentecost 1915-2014, a life well lived

Dr. Dwight Pentecost 1915-2014

Dr. Dwight Pentecost passed this week in his 99th year. As a nation were were yet to enter WWI.
DW Griffin made a movie all should see The Birth of a Nation in 1915. A well made film that unintentionally shows what many thought about race at that time. There many who disagreed with the film as well. If you haven't seen it you need to.
The Scofield Bible was a new study at this time. Sherlock Holmes was still having stories penned by the Doyle and there was Christians teaching in schools and universities without censorship. Joliet Central was a relatively new school that was an academic model as the best of high schools in the US.
Dr. Pentecost lived along time and taught to the very end. He had a 64 year career. Reminds me of another movie you should see, Good Bye Mr. Chips a 1939 classic. The movie is dated and we probably don't think or talk that way, but people should.
Dr. Pentecost was up to date. Anything he has written I recommend, but two books come to mind: Things to Come, 1958, updated many times and The Words and Works of Jesus Christ: A Study in the Life of Christ 1981. Both works are a must and are modern classics. Itunes has a series on the Life of Christ as Dr. Pentecost teaches in Isreal which I am going to take time to view.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/id592125822
The viewing is free and if you like a series with the back drop of the Holy land I believe you will enjoy it. Dr. Dwight Pentecost who lived to 99. He continued to write and work into his 90's.
In the news we have old guys who embarrass themselves. There is no cutting a person some slack, because if we live long enough most of us will say or do something we shouldn't, but Dr. Pentecost had the good fortune to keep his mind and he lived a class act. Thanks Doc for your writing and blessing me and others. Keep walking