Emphasis Preaching Journal

Vern was 48 when he contracted a rare form of cancer. He was told that treatment rarely worked for his kind of cancer, and that he had another year to live, no more. They began treatment shortly afterward. Treatments entailed a bone marrow transplant, radiation, and heavy drugs. His skin turned leathery and red, he was nauseous, and isolated. But he fought on, going through every treatment the oncologists recommended.