1. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  2. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  3. Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
  4. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  5. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
  6. As is often the case in Scripture, creation is about a renewed, restored, and redeemed relationship with the Creator.
  7. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  8. Salutary funeral preaching seeks to set the life of the baptized believer who has died within the life of Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, and reigning.
  9. I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.
  10. The gospel of Jesus’ coming out of death and the tomb alive so that we might be restored to our identity as God’s children establishes the most enduring reality there is.
  11. This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.
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