I would like to begin this sermon with a few rhetorical questions. In your heart give truthful answers. Are you living or merely surviving? When you get to where you are going, where will you be? Living is a thing you do, now or never, which do you do? Would anybody here like to live forever?

On this Memorial Day weekend, I would like to talk about life: meaningful life, abundant life, everlasting life, eternal life. As a pastor, I see life from many perspectives. In the span of one day, I often hold a new born baby, and then walk down the hall to meet with a family about ending life support systems for a loved one. In between hospital visits I see people of all ages, trying to find meaning for their particular lives. Life – what a wonderful, complicated, creative, eternal gift.

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