Burying Loved Ones

It's getting harder and harder to bury people now--they're my brothers, my sisters.

To Die Is Gain

If we look at our life as some precious treasure we must hoard, the demands made by others of our life are like losses. And death is a final loss, a final ...

Emotional Distance

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Paying the Ultimate Price

Paul Harvey tells a story about Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare, the Navy's number-one ace in the Second World War ...

Faith in the Coming Resurrection

Mike Fuller is a close friend of some in this congregation. His name will be remembered by followers of the San Diego Chargers. After he played there, ...

Victory in Death

Colin Chapman, in The Case for Christianity, quotes Ugandan bishop Festo Kivengere's account of the 1973 execution by firing squad of three men from ...

Theology of Death

Death is a theological issue. Indeed, for most people, it is the theological issue.

Many Faces of Grief

Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief:

Grief is a young widow trying to raise her three children, alone. Grief is the man so filled with shocked ...

Hidden Agony

One of the two medical students [present during a series of abortions in a hospital] is a Christian. "Whenever I hear that horrible noise of suction, ...

Life Here and Now

Listening to a student read the Scripture in seminary chapel, Joseph Sittler, now blind, heard something he'd never heard before. "Yea, though ...