Rev. Dr. Vernard Marion Eller

Casa Colina's Adult Day Health Center would like to wish the Eller family our deepest sympathy in their time of loss. May you all endure these days of loss and arrive at a place of peace and understanding, as there is a special place in our heart carved out just for memories. We are thankful for having the opportunity to have met Vernard and to have provided services to him and the family. Sincerely, ADHC Staff

I mostly knew Vernard from his writings, which in my colleges years inspired and shaped my own expressions of Christian Faith. Vernard's passing, while certainly a sad and painful experience, is not tragic, for his legacy lives on in printed words, and in people transformed by those printed words. I pray the family find comfort in this season, as Vernard finds rest in the presence of our Lord

I became acquainted with Vernard at a lecture that he gave at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, where he presented some of the material from a new work, "Could the Church Have it All Wrong?". That work was never published in print, but he once wrote that he regarded it as his most important effort.

When I started a Christian web site that featured "The Vernard Eller Collection" in 1995, Vernard was very helpful in obtaining the permissions necessary to make much of his life's...