Category: Death

• 4 Dec 2020

  And Death’s Dark Shadows Put to Flight

  We live in a world of pain and brokenness. We live in a world in which we feel the ominous presence of death’s dark shadows. Each time someone we love receives that dreadful diagnosis of cancer or COVID-19, we have a keen sense that this is not the way things are supposed to be. Things…
• 17 Jan 2020

  My Own Mortality

  Lately, I have reflected on my own mortality. I have served in my current ministry context for just over four months, during which time I have preached two funerals and attended a third. I have reflected much on the brevity of life. I have also seen the goodness of God during some discouraging days. Death…
• 11 Jun 2019

  Death, Where is Your Sting?

  All humans will die. The mortality rate among human beings is 100%.  I know, this is a wonderfully positive way to begin a post, isn’t it? Though we may not experience positive emotions when we consider death, it is a reality everyone will face at some point in the natural flow of life. Death hurts.…