Theology That Bites Back
My father was born October 6, 1927, and he entered into glory last night, May 25, 2022. As we remember his life and legacy in the days to come, I will obviously have more to say, but I wanted to register one central thing at the outset. I wanted to thank God for giving me …
We have gathered here at this small grave in order to honor the departure of a small child of God. Through Christ, what we share together on this occasion is a mixture of grief, sympathy, joy, and hope. The ...
The world is a beautiful place, but with many ugly scars. The world is a beautiful place, but has suffered many wounds. We have gathered together here today in order to grieve, and that grief ...
Graveside Homily: At the very beginning of our race, the Lord God fashioned our first father Adam out of the dust of the ground. This means that man’s material beginning was lowly, but God breathed ...
As we seek to remember Nancy Rust, and her life of kind service, one of the things we must do at the same time is remember the gospel of Christ, and how the kindness of God intervened in our world to ...
Welcome, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have gathered at a Christian funeral or memorial service, and this means that everything in it should revolve around the word honor. We are ...
Rachel Held Evans died last week as the result of a severe allergic reaction to some medications. She was a very popular blogger, she was on a really unfortunate theological trajectory, and she was only 37 when she died. Where I would like to begin is with a prayer that the family and loved ones …
The theme of every Christian memorial service is this: from dust to glory. But in order to understand this properly,we need to grasp the deep reality of our fall into sin and all that it entailed. God fashioned the first man out of the dust of the ground, and because man is the image and …
The death of any of our little ones is pressing hard. We love our children, but we remember that we are only in a position to love them as we ought to because we love our Father in Heaven more than all. Whoever does not love Christ more than family cannot be a disciple, as …
One of the things that we learn from Scripture is the fact that it is the part of wisdom to be mindful of your own mortality. This is one of the important functions of funerals and memorial services. Not only do we honor the deceased, as has been done here today very ably, but we …
