When Our Loss Is Heavens Gain – RedState

While the world rightfully famous and mourned the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Saturday, July 11, 2026 — effectively, most of the world anyway — another passing from earthly life to everlasting glory occurred on this date that deserves point out. Christian songwriter Bob Farrell, identified during the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties for his Farrell & Farrell music and life partnership with spouse Jayne, told cancer you’ll be able to have my temporal physique in exchange for the incorruptible one he now enjoys in Heaven.

Farrell & Farrell had a prolonged, profitable run as gentle rockers, with occasional forays into techno and mainstream pop. The duo was never flashy nor fashionable, seldom making waves and always being more in the Christian music industry than of it. In 1991, they said they have been finished with being on the street and went home, raising their household and fortunately embracing home life. Bob Farrell continued to write songs for artists such as Sandi Patti. There have been no grand reunion tours, no splashy makes an attempt at reminding people they have been still around. Bob and Jayne Farrell have been completely pleased enjoying with the grandkids instead of enjoying to the group.

The songs remained. Oh, how they remained. While modern Christian music lags far behind its secular counterpart in respecting, preserving, and selling the basic works of yesterday, the devoted few digitized their rigorously preserved vinyls. They shared the songs that had been the soundtrack of their lives via YouTube and other channels. They also linked immediately with the artists, including Bob and Jayne Farrell, who weren’t averse to chatting on Facebook. The early generations of modern Christian musicians have long put into apply the assumption that they and their followers are household, as such reaching out on a personal stage. The more social media-savvy (at least in principle) current era, by distinction, are surprisingly hit-and-miss when it comes to speaking with the common people. Hopefully, when their time in the first highlight has handed, they’ll do better in connecting with the true believers who will stay in lieu of the fashionable followers, those who are right here in the now for today’s rave fave and will vanish tomorrow as they trot off in pursuit of the next scorching hand.

Bob Farrell was a songwriter; a very, superb one.

A former Christian rock artist once described to me what he did as taking pictures arrows over the horizon. When you make albums, and even enjoying live shows, you have no idea who you’re affecting or how you make a distinction in their life. Not everybody comes to speak after the show, and not everybody writes a letter or social media post speaking about the personal affect of an artist’s work. Yet they do exist. I’ve been lucky to inform at least some of the artists who have helped me over the many years how a lot their songs and tales have meant to me along the way in which. I strongly suspect that even as Bob Farrell’s household grieves their loss, said grief tempered at least in half by the promised coming reunion, today in heaven recipients of the blessed arrows Farrell & Farrell shot over the horizon are making themselves identified to the person they love. I used to be saved at one of your live shows! Your music introduced me through the worst time of my life! And many, many more moments beforehand identified only to the one immediately affected and the loving God Who makes use of frail, failing humanity to work His divine will among His kids.

When one of the saints graduates to glory, our loss is Heaven’s gain. While not denying our tears and sorrow, we rejoice in realizing that those we love who have left are now together not only with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but also with those gained for heaven through their earthly ministry. This is the way in which we should always go, focusing not obsessively or excessively on the fast cares of life but quite on that which shops everlasting treasure. Bob Farrell is now reaping the bountiful harvest of his life’s work. May we continue to work toward sooner or later seeing the fruit of our own efforts.

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