We have gathered at this memorial service for many reasons—to honor the memory of Shirley Hardaway, to comfort her loved ones, to remember our own mortality, and these reasons—together with others— are good reasons. But we have also gathered for another reason, a very simple one. The reason we have been able to come here …
Joel King, R.I.P.
In a time of sudden grief like this, our reactions, not surprisingly, include an oscillating range of emotions—whether sorrow, or pity, or anger at God, or unanswerable aching questions for God, and so on, down the line. Some of the questions make sense, the rest don’t, and none of them need to make sense. They …
Mike Rench R.I.P.
We are gathered here in the name of Jesus. We are servants of the Lord Jesus, who is the universal Lord. We are servants of Jesus Davidson, who was a particular man from the town of Nazareth. He had a particular lineage, a particular mother, a particular synagogue that He attended as a boy, and …
Seasoned With Salt
Yesterday God was gracious to us in the burial of my father–in-law. Part of that grace was the eulogy that Nate gave. You can read it here.
Resurrection As Encore
After the Roman procurator Festus had arranged for the apostle Paul to give an account of himself before King Agrippa and Queen Bernice, the apostle explained what the Lord Jesus had done to him and for him. He did this in the context of describing how God had fulfilled HIs promises to Israel. In the …
Lawrence A. Greensides, R.I.P.
Last night we received word that Nancy’s father, Larry Greensides, went to be with the Lord suddenly. Nancy’s brother was with him at the time, and while his passing was sudden, it was not entirely unexpected. He was 95, and active and fit to the end. We are grateful for the fact that he loved …
The Death of His Saints
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Ps. 116:15). Denise Sproul, the wife of R.C. Sproul, Jr., went to be with the Lord this morning. Please be praying for her family and her friends in their time of grief. But as the apostle Paul said, to be absent from …
Reflections on Christopher Hitchens
Scripture says that it is better to go down to the house of mourning than to the house of laughter (Ecc. 7:2). The reason given in that passage is that this enables the living to “lay it to heart.” The death of Christopher Hitchens should in the first place remind us of our own mortality. …
Bessie Wilson, RIP
What Abraham SawWhen Abraham looked into the future, he saw the day of the Lord Jesus. When he saw it, he rejoiced and was glad (John 8:56). When Abraham looked into the future he saw a city, whose maker and builder is God (Heb. 11:8-10). When Abraham looked into the future, he saw countless multitudes, …
Sharon Elizabeth Howell, R.I.P.
In Psalm 116, we see the deliverances of God in the midst of life, and we see the ultimate deliverance of God at the end of life. The psalmist is pressed by his troubles—the sorrows of death surrounded him (v. 3). He found trouble and sorrow, which everyone who is paying attention in this life …