To Serve At Death

I had the privilege yesterday of conducting funeral services for a longtime member of the church. She was a straightforward woman. Often, when I visited her as she slowly died of cancer, she would describe her pain to me, ending with the convicting words, ‘but I can still sit here and talk to you.’
Yesterday was [...]

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God’s Character and the Disconnected Synapse

I’ve thought about this disconnect off and on. I thought about it again last night. Heather and I went to see the movie “Freedomland,” and in it Samuel L. Jackson’s character comforts the mother of a dead child with these words (or words like them): “In the end, everything happens because God wills it. If God [...]

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