Tag: funeral

• S.H.M.I.L.Y.

  7The memory of the righteous is a blessing,but the name of the wicked will rot.–Proverbs 10 I had the honor of co-officiating my great-grandmother’s funeral service yesterday. The first half of our verse today describes how the day went. Grandma was a blessing to so many people and had lived a righteous life. Therefore as…

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  December 10, 2023

  proverbs

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• Costly Devotion

   3Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.–John 12 There is no evidence in the text that Mary (or any of the disciples) knew Jesus was going to soon…

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  August 1, 2023

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• Responses to a Resurrection

  45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48If…

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  July 31, 2023

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• Forever Hope

  6…and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.—Psalm 23 I doubt that David had as nuanced of an understanding of the life to come as we do. Most of us grew up with the ‘everlasting life’ of John 3:16. But David seems to proclaim that Yahweh’s house provides both an identity and security. A…

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  June 24, 2023

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• Funeral Perspective

  2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.3Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4The heart of the wise is in…

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  June 7, 2023

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• Don’t Weep

  11Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town…

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  May 12, 2023

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• Rapture Thoughts

  13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15For this we declare to you…

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  October 25, 2022

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