There are some events so large that we always remember where we were when we first heard the news-the Kennedy and King assassinations, the Reagan shooting, the Challenger explosion, those planes crashing into the buildings, and the initial reports of Hurricane Katrina. Eight years ago this week, I was driving home from my grandfather's funeral when...
Jeremiah 29:11
(Note: This message was originally preached as part of an annual county-wide memorial service for families of traffic fatalities.)
Grief is an experience common to all of us. We all lose someone we love at sometime. The difference lies in the names and circumstances of our losse
Job
19:25-27
Paul
Azinger was a popular professional golfer a few years back that had just won
the PGA championship and had ten tournament victories to his credit. Then, at
the age of 33 he was diagnosed with cancer. He recorded his feelings about the
experience, "A genuine feeling of fear cam
I'll Hold You Again in Heaven
2 Samuel 12:15-23
Of all deaths, that of a child is most unnatural and hardest to bear. We expect the old to die. While that kind of separation is always difficult, it comes as no surprise. But the death of a young child or a yout
Good Grief
Isaiah 43:1-5; Revelation 7:16-17; John 11:28-36
I'll never forget the night my grandfather died. He'd become so ill, they had to take him to a nursing home. They actually didn't have to, I found out much later. They'd taken him to the hospital,
Before the first Easter, Jesus' disciples had known death only as the end of the line. Jesus shows them a new way of looking at death. No longer a stone wall, a barrier, a termination. No, says Jesus, it's only the passage through customs and immigration, before the next train pulls out of the station.
