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Death will strike your congregation. Are you ready? Are they? Death has become a four-letter word. Whereas in previous generations, the practice of memento mori (“remember death”) was embedded in family life, people today have found ways to distance themselves from death. As Western culture becomes increasingly more secular, the Christian understanding of death and the funeral appear more and...

this first part and jump to the practical information in the second. I urge you (if that is indeed you) to resist. For the loss of the language of personal eschatology is not only a problem for the laity and unchurched or dechurched people who come to you for help. It’s your problem too. (When was the last time you heard or preached a sermon on death?) Part I offers a series of four reflections on the classical last things—death (chapter 2), judgment (chapter 3), hell (chapter 4), and heaven (chapter
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