A couple years ago we had a late night house call. We drove up to the house, and an uncle came outside to meet us, explaining the situation we were about to enter. “You guys are here for my niece, Sara. She’s 16 years old. Been fighting cancer for four years. She’s in the living […]
Last Friday, I posted this photo on my Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook Page. Since I posted it, over 2,000,000 people have viewed it. Many have asked, “Where is this gravestone located?” “Who is the gravestone for?” And various other questions. Here’s Matthew Stanford Robison’s “Find a Grave” page that will answer most of your […]
Most people only think about heaven / the afterlife during times of death. So, if you’ve had someone close to you die, you probably have strong opinions about the existence or nonexistence of the afterlife. And, our opinions are probably wrong. If heaven exists at all, it – by definition — is much different than […]
The Vulnerable God William Placher writes, Love involves a willingness to put oneself at risk, and God is in fact vulnerable in love, vulnerable even to great suffering. God’s self-revelation is Jesus Christ, and, as readers encounter him in the biblical stories, he wanders with nowhere to lay his head, washes the feet of his […]
Where do you look for Jesus? Do you look for Jesus in Church? Do you look for Jesus in the Word? In your quiet times? In prayer? We’ve all looked for Jesus in these places. And we’ve found Him there, once or twice. And we (I) have thought, “Jesus dwells in the Word … so […]