1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The time is always near. The world rages on and in it you have tribulation, it is true. But the One who is standing at the gate has conquered.
  4. What does the return of the Lord Jesus in judgment mean for me now in the face of all the real-life verdicts that I have to face?
  5. It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.