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FOR HOWEVER BRIEF A TIME - New |
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Author: Warren E. Berkley
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Comments: I became acquainted with Warren Berkley when he was preaching in Kansas; it must have been twenty five years ago. We visited briefly then, and have had occasional opportunities to be together since then. He grows on you. His work speaks for itself, and adds testimony to the description he gives of his father in this excellent book. These are the people -- Warren, his father (and his mother) -- whose lives and efforts result in spiritual growth in the churches, and families, and neighborhoods with which they have to do. They receive rare applause here, but their treasure is eternal. - Pat Farish, Texas preacher The apostle Paul wrote “Likewise, the good works of some are clearly evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden” (1 Timothy 5:25 NKJV). This passage comes to mind as one reads Warren Berkley’s account of his father, Northum Eugene Berkley, in For However Brief A Time. Many of his good works were in evidence as he lived and some of those works of which few knew while he lived are now being made known in this book. Northum Berkley may not have been a famous man by the world’s standards. He lived in what was then a small town in the South…Ft. Smith, Arkansas. But Warren tells of the great influence for good to those privileged to have known him. He spent time with each of his children, in trips and activities, something too many fathers fail to do in this day and time. His neighbors and members of the church knew they could count on him if they needed help. And he declared by example when it was not socially expedient that racial bias has no place among God’s church. As a deacon he refused to rope off a back section of the auditorium for visiting black brethren during a gospel meeting and took a black brother who was a dear friend down to the front to sit with him. None of this was lost on his young son, the rest of the family, and the church. The church, God’s children… Northum was truly concerned for the well-being of his brothers and sisters in Christ and made opportunities to discuss spiritual matters with brethren. And all he did in life was with rare good humor and dry wit. For However Brief A Time draws you into the narrative by not only the obvious great love of the author for his father but the realization that you are meeting a man who was not ashamed of being godly. His life is motivation for the reader to try a little harder to walk life’s path as a Christian. - Ron Lehde, evangelist, Austin, TX I was born in August, 1947, and Warren Berkley was born in November of that same year. We grew up together at Park Hill Church of Christ in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Warren and I might as well have been brothers when we were kids because we spent so much time together. His dad took us on "field trips" to various places in Fort Smith. We walked everywhere we went.
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