The God of infinite Reach

This sermon was preached at the funeral of a warm and compassionate man who frequently taught object lessons to our church's children by utilizing the skills he developed as a professional magician. Suffering from a brain tumor, Ivan killed himself.

We all have burdens.

Some of us overcome them and some of us are overcome by them.

Life is full of questions.

Some of us find the answers and some of us have questions that forever go unanswered.

But we all experience the common denominator of death. Some die because of a diseased heart, others from a diseased kidney, and still others from a diseased brain. But we all die.

And God loves each and every one of us, no matter how we face life and regardless of what causes death. A far more significant common denominator than our …