Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
This article urges Christians to refrain from allowing funerals to be replaced by celebrations of life. A celebration of life evades the inescapable fact that there’s been a death. Instead of an acknowledgement of that they become “post-mortem roasts for non-celebrities.” Jason Allen isn’t against laughter and a sense of lightness, but any lightness should …
Today was the first time I saw this apparatus on which a coffin is placed in order to be lowered into a grave. Apparently it’s safer that the ground-level apparatus they formerly used. I suppose the big city cemeteries have been using these for years. (I imagine they’d also hinder any folk who might be …
A funeral for a Christian man, whose life was the aroma of Jesus. At the graveside his family were given sprigs of rosemary, the herb of remembrance, to cast in the grave. Holding the herb, squeezing it gently, breathing in the herbaceous sweet woody aroma provided a pause to collect final memories of this man, …
These sorts of posts pop up from time to time and they’re always worth reflecting on, particularly for Christians. Make sure your family knows you want your funeral to be about Jesus and not about you. People are under all sorts of pressure to conform to a pattern that makes a funeral all about the …
Attended the funeral today of a 49 year old husband, father of two and follower of Jesus. For twenty-one years he lived with the impact of cancers in his head. For forty-nine years he lived a life that grew and grew in its demonstration of the love of God who loved Him in Christ. Among …
A lot of the funerals I conduct have me singing what turns out to be virtual solos. Maybe that’s why this story appealed to me. ht
