A pastor friend, Matt Fitzgerald, wrote recently about a funeral he led on the day before Easter for a newborn who had died in delivery. The service was in the parents’ backyard, where they buried the ashes. Matt read Paul’s defiant words, flung into the face of death, “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” As the service ended, the stunned and grieving family filled the grave they had dug on Good Friday...
At graveside
Preaching scholar Thomas Long shares some thoughts on preaching funerals.
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