Years ago, a friend was dying of inoperable cancer. Shortly after his terminal diagnosis, he expressed repentant faith and became a follower of Jesus. I went to visit him in the hospital and he asked if I knew where the Bible talked about the resurrection of believers. I said yes, that First Corinthians 15 was the great chapter on resurrection. He asked me to read it to him. As I read through that chapter, I could sense hope welling up within him. At the same time that the cancer was physically destroying him (he was down to 80 lbs from 200 lbs), he was coming alive in a very real sense as the truth of Psalm 73:26 washed over him —”My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” A few days later, at his request, I gave a classical piano concert for him and over one hundred of his friends. We wheeled Dave into the recital hall where I awaited at a 9-foot grand piano. We seated Dave at the side of the piano by me.  His friends were seated in the auditorium. When we brought Dave in, people who had not recently seen him were shocked by the physical deterioration and an ambience of depression hung over assembly. I purposely chose classical music to perform where I knew the spiritual life of the composer and could speak to it being the motivation for such beautiful music. As I progressed through the music and spoke between performance pieces about the power of Christ, the ambience began to change from despair and depression to one of great hope. The final piece was a glorious composition by Franz Liszt (Consolations #3) that I dedicated to Dave. When I finished I was astonished to see most of the people crying. We wheeled Dave out to the car and lifted him into the front seat. He was so weak that he could no longer speak. I got up in his face and looked into his eyes which were still bright and said, “Dave, I may not see you again in this life. But 50,000 years from now we will still be talking about how great today was.” That was the last time I saw Dave. He went into a coma the next day and died a week later at home with his family caring for him. But Dave died well. He died very well.