ABOUT BOB BRINER
“Bob Briner was so selfless in his giving. If I asked him for his input on something, he would inundate me with information, and at the end of each message he would say, ‘ No need to respond to this—just know that I’m praying for you and know that I love you.’ He was such a precious gift that God gave me. I really hope to be more like him. He so well mirrored what I think Jesus’ friendship should be like.”
-Stephen Curtis Chapman, Recording Artist
“Bob Briner could, by his example and with his words, reach so many people like me because he had himself lived so fully. And as he lived the examined life, so too did he live the uncompromising Christian life that he wrote about—one where love proceeds and care follows and generosity abounds.”
-Frank Deford
Author, columnist, and broadcast commentator
Sports Illustrated/Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
“God is no respecter of persons, so he gave that job to Bob Briner. Bob was the official lifter-upper of those who respected God, even at their own peril. ‘Roaring Lambs’ he called them. By including me among them, he unknowingly bestowed upon me my greatest earthly honor to date. In appreciation I could wish him no greater joy than he has right now—the fellowship of the roaringest Lamb of all, the [small caps] Lion of Judah.”
—Johnny Hart, B.C. and Wizard of Id
“We started out with a small idea of what the vision and purpose of the band would be, and Roaring Lambs helped complete that vision for us. It really gave us more of an idea what we could and should be doing and how God could work through us in the culture.”
-Jars of Clay, Recording Artists
Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Steve Mason, and Matt Odmark
“I knew Bob Briner for more than forty years, and in all that time, I never stopped marveling at his incredible selflessness, generosity, and dedication. There is no greater praise than this: Everyone who knew him well considered him their best friend.”
-Edwin Pope, Sports editor, Miami Herald
“I have always shared Bob’s philosophy and vision that we step out of our comfortable subculture and reach into mainstream America and impact it with our faith. Other than my own father and my pastor, I have never had another man encourage me the way Bob did. He was 100% servant, and I am a better, wiser man because of his impact on my life.”
-Michael W. Smith, Grammy award-winning recording artist
“Heroes seem to be a thing of the past, something that sits back there in time somewhere, something we’ve lost a vision for. And when we do have a vision of heroes in our society and in our culture today, it has more to do with the muchness and the many and the more of life—the volume of something, of quantity, and hardly ever about quality. Maybe in Bob Briner there is a hero. Bob was always giving. I want to walk in the ways my ‘older brother’ set forth for me and in the ways he outlined. And in the same way as Paul had his disciples and they desired to walk in his ways, I was a disciple of Bob Briner, and I still am and intend to be for a long time. I will follow Bob as he follows Christ. In the life of Bob Briner something went very right. This man gave himself away in the name of Jesus Christ. He left us with a wonderful legacy of what it means to be God’s man in God’s place in God’s time. And he also left us with a tremendous charge to live for Christ in the everywhere and the everything of life. God is good in many ways. He is good also because he gave us Bob.”
-Charlie Peacock, Recording artist, producer and author
“Cutting edge? No. Bob Briner was on the bleeding edge when it comes to being pertinent in marketplace application and, at the same time, poignant with biblical truth. Though Bob is dead, he still speaks through his books, which are filled with insightful leadership principles that are not simply theoretical but were beaten out on the anvil of personal experience in his own daily journey of following the world’s greatest Leader.”
-O. S. Hawkins, President, Annuity Board of the SBC
“Bob Briner was a mentor of mine, and he influenced my life in the tennis world with his advice and counsel when I needed help. His wisdom, understanding, and biblical perspective were always welcome ingredients in enabling me to make the right decisions. Bob made a decision to change his profession and really to make the rest of his life count most in influencing and challenging thousands of people with his writing.”
-Stan Smith, U.S. Open and Wimbledon Champion
“Bob ‘RAB’ Briner was one of God’s great, humble servants. Bob was so close to what I was doing, and when the days were dark and rough, he was there. He had seen the end, and he knew it was going to be all right. Bob’s creative mind was always working. It was rich and fertile. God had given him an incredible sense of creativity. He was not just a sports manager; he was a creative person of God. And that creativity showed in everything he did. He helped to create people and their lives, he helped to mold and shape them, and graciously he gave of his own being so that others could succeed. The wolves will not win the battle, because Bob Briner has seen to it that great seeds have been sown, and the harvest is prepared, that the persons who can defeat the wolves are on the march, and that they are being creative in making inroads against the wolves who have controlled our world. How appropriate it is that a person uniquely like Bob Briner could have had a place in this world. We honor Bob by roaring the loudest we ever roared. His final book is Final Roar, but that echo will go on for generations and generations and forever and ever, because Bob was a man who walked only with God and his Savior, Jesus our Lord.”
-Ken Wales, Television and movie producer & actor