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On this page my brother John and I, along with our younger brother and sister, Joy and Jim, remember our father, John M. Webb, a preacher and professor of homiletics for almost 40 years. More than 25 years after his death in 1982 at the age of 66, we still feel a profound longing for him. Because of his influence as a preacher and teacher of preachers, John and I have both devoted our lives to the arts of preaching. As undergraduates in his classes, we preached our first sermons. When he died in 1982, more than 2,000 people returned to Lincoln for his funeral, testimony to the uncommon influence that he cast over countless students and church leaders. In the last years of his life he was a member of the Academy of Homiletics, in which he took great delight. Both John and I value the Academy as he did. We are both proud to be invited back next year to Lincoln Christian College, where he taught all his life and from which we both graduated, to deliver the 25th anniversary John M. Webb Lectures in Preaching. |
In Memoriam |
Mother and Dad, John M. Webb and Edith June Goddard |