It’s been a rough month, with two of God’s best troops taken out by cancer – but both of these friends have died well and impacted so many in the process. I’m going to Richard Garnett’s* funeral/celebration of life next week.

Many of you will have heard of Steve Legg. I interviewed him with Carl Beech early last summer, just after he’d been given a couple of months to live. Well, he battled on for a full extra year, and ran his race beautifully. He continued touring, making people laugh and cry as he shared his comedy acts with the added twist of living on borrowed time; and just a few days ago, he graduated to glory, having given it his everything. What a man!

“I’ve had a wonderful life and whatever happens, I’ve won. If I survive this; I’ve won, if I go to be with Jesus; I’ve won. It’s a no brainer….I feel God is saying to me, “I love you, I’m with you, try not to be scared.”
Steve Legg

So I’d love you to listen to this extraordinary podcast, as I interviewed Steve and Carl – the former speaking from his perspective of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis, the latter from the perspective of accepting his potentially long and difficult journey with degenerative Parkinson’s disease. They’re both comedians, so they’ll make you laugh as well as cry. It’s very powerful. 

Steve and Carl (whose condition has progressed significantly since last year) are both hilarious, passionate for people, and want to seize every opportunity to share their Ultimate Hope with as many as possible. So do please share this far and wide as well.

Shortly before the great evangelist Moody finished his earthly race, he declared: “Someday, you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody is dead. Don’t you believe it! At that moment, I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all! I was born of the flesh in 1837; I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die, but that which is born of the Spirit will live forever!”

Steve, we salute you! And amidst the tears of grief for those of us still this side of the grave, having heard that Steve Legg is dead… Well, ‘don’t you believe it!’ He is ‘more alive than ever’… because ‘that which is born of the flesh may die, but that which is born of the Spirit will live forever!”

That’s our ultimate, guaranteed, confident hope! Here’s to living it like Steve and Carl – clearly, attractively, unashamedly!

• If you want to support Steve’s wife Bekah and their five girls, you can do so at: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/blesstheleggs
• Steve’s previous podcast is here.
• Subscribe to Sorted magazine at: sortedmag.com
• Steve’s wife Bekah’s podcast is here.
• Carl’s previous podcast is here.
• Check out Edge Ministries: edgeministries.net
• Follow Carl on Instagram: @beechband – where you will see how things have progressed with him in the last year, but how he’s helped launch and promote an amazing band which vastly improves speech and reduces anxiety. Read more here.

*You can listen Richard’s podcast here.