Coming to the end of the first section of Job – the dialogue between him and his friends before a 4th voice comes in, Elihu. It very much feels by this point that Job is worn down. His language is more raw and feels much […]
All posts tagged: Death
Imago Scriptura 25 – Bitter. Sweet.
It didn’t hit me until today the connection between the two passages yesterday – the end of Deuteronomy and the reading from the Gospel of Mark. In both cases, they were the stories of one dying. In Deuteronomy, we read of the death of Moses […]
Imago Scriptura 08 – Gathered
Several times in Genesis so far there has been a phrase that I think is just a beautiful phrase that we do not use much any longer. When Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob each die in Genesis (I’m in the middle of the telling of Jacob’s […]
Wait for the Lord 14 – Dealing with Loss
There is a unique blessing that comes in leading a service for when someone passes away. As a pastor, I am able to be there for a family who is grieving a loss and am able to by deed and by word seek to proclaim […]
The Wilderness of Mark
I continue to have my world rocked by Alexander Shaia’s book, Heart and Mind. There’s so much in this book that is just helping me take in the Gospels in a way like I haven’t before. As I closed his chapter on the Gospel of […]
BFTJ – Aug 29 – The Companionship of the Dead
Our children unfortunately never knew their great-grandparents. Only my grandmother on my dad’s side was still alive when our youngest were born. We have a wonderful picture of her, me, my father, and the newborns that we treasure as we have all four generations there. […]
BFTJ – Aug 24 – Parents’ Grief
I have not had to face the loss of a child and I pray that I never have to face that in my own immediate family. I have, however, walked alongside many other families who have gone through that unspeakable loss. Whether it is a […]
BFTJ – August 21 – Taking the Sting out of Death
I love taking pictures of old cemeteries. Maybe that makes me a little twisted (some truth to that) but there is a wonderful beauty to these places. One thing that I often think of when I am walking around them is about the stories of […]
Imago Gospels – 23 – Tomb
Matthew 27 Its a bit hard for us today to get a sense of what the tomb of Jesus must have been like. So many of us are used to manicured cemeteries or polished mausoleums that a rough hewn tomb cut out of the rock […]
A Place at the Table – 39 – Cemetery
A Place at the Table – 39 – Cemetery God, we ask as people of faith that You would teach us what it means to truly set our eyes on heaven and live as those who do not fear death. Prompt us toward forgiveness, restoration, […]
Romans Photos 6:1-14 – Dying and Rising
Dying and Rising with Christ What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us […]
