Deuteronomy 26:5-11Psalm 78:12-16Hebrews 9:24-28
A Scriptural MeditationOn An Often-used Funeral Hymn
Our faith is a paradoxical thing, isn't it? In Jesus, God turns our world upside down.
That's one thought I always have when I hear the words to George Bennard's beautiful old song, "On a Hill Far Away." In that song, Bennard talks about clinging to the very things from which we shy away. He talks about clinging to the suffering and death of Jesus.
As we come here today to share our love and our grief at the death of **, it might be helpful to remember God has always sided with the weak and hurting.
God is a God who saves, and to be saved, we have to want to be. We have to feel the need for God's salvation.
If you listened to the Scriptures for today, you heard three descriptions of God's saving…