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Things I Wish I Heard in a Funeral Sermon

Preaching a funeral sermon is not an easy gig, and I want to acknowledge the preacher’s efforts. However, I really wish he had bolstered the sermon with the real, good hope of Christ. I wished I had heard the following:

Never Yours, Soul

Dear Sin, I thought of not engaging you at all, but decided it would be more profitable to respond—not for your sake, but for mine. It will be refreshing for me to review how wrong you are on every single point.

Encouraging Up

Encouraging up is much harder than encouraging ‘down’ or ‘across,’ and hence much rarer. I think this is for a couple of reasons.

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Things I Wish I Heard in a Funeral Sermon

Preaching a funeral sermon is not an easy gig, and I want to acknowledge the preacher’s efforts. However, I really wish he had bolstered the sermon with the real, good hope of Christ. I wished I had heard the following:

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