Have you ever heard the story of events that supposedly happened in Alabama the night that Nat King Cole passed away? For years it was reported that his wife had a happy encounter with a kindly driver who helped when her car broke down, enabling her to get to the hospital before her dying husband passed away. But the truth is that Nat King Cole passed away in a hospital in Los Angeles, not Alabama, with his wife by his bedside. This fictitious tale reinforces the importance of knowing the difference between fact and fiction, and especially in the most important area of all – preparing for the next life. There is only one authentic source – the Bible. It reveals the true spiritual condition of all – “There is none righteous, no, not one.” And it shows way to a proper relationship with the Heavenly Father, as seen in Jesus’ words: “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the father except through me.”

Pastor Alex Rockwell