Each time I do a funeral, I make some simple concessions before arriving at the church. The sermon will be 20 minutes or less. Religious services, in general, meet with resistance. Nobody wants them ...
I have often said that I would rather officiate one thousand funerals than officiate one wedding. It’s not that I hate weddings, it’s just that I prefer to officiate funerals, especially if they are ...
When the sermon is the last thing on your hearers’ minds, how to preach in a way that changes lives One honor of being a minister is to be welcomed into the lives of people during deeply personal ...
Recorded organ music wafts through the funeral chapel as mourners - a man, woman, young child and infant cradled in its mother's arms - navigate their way past rows of steel-legged, ...
Rev. Wayne Smith estimates he preached more than 1,000 funerals during his 40-year career at Southland Christian. Charles Bertram 2013 FILE PHOTO In a recent interview, Wayne Smith said he had a ...
“Where there is love, death always comes at least one day too soon.” I do not know when I started saying these words, but I often find myself rehearsing them at funerals. I am a Black man, and the ...
Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon in Westminster Abbey reflected monarch’s role as head of C of E The powerful liturgy and rituals of the Church of England – the established church since the 16th ...
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