A Strange Victory This sermon was for the family of a nineteen-year-old man and deals with the problem of young people dying. Death is seen as a friend when it comes to a loved one in the fulness of years, when the prospect is no longer for a full life but instead for a limited, and sometimes painful, existence. And so the Greeks spoke of a good life being capped by a "good" death, one that came w...
Dealing With Suicide Philippians 4:4-13 This funeral was for a man in his sixties who committed suicide. The message is an attempt to deal with the subject in a sensitive and caring manner. The death of a loved one is always a tragedy. It is doubly so when that loved one has taken his own life. Today, we have come together to share the sorrow of all the Carpenters at the suicide of their husband a...
