Christians and Culture by Dr. Tim Woodruff Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem If opens with the line, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” and closes with the encouragement, “you’ll be a man, my son.” Whatever you may think of the poem’s merits (as either poetry or philosophy), the lines […]
On Dying Well
by Lanita Bradley Boyd “It’s time to call in hospice,” the doctor says, and family prayers change. Prayers for healing change to prayers for a pain-free, peaceful ending. The family may gather around the patient even more than before, treasuring each moment together. But what about the patient? If you are the person for whom […]
All I Really Need to Know I Learned at a Funeral
by Janet Hommel Mangas Oh, for heaven’s sake! I thought, when Kent Odor told my seminary classmates we were attending a funeral to start off our Pastoral Care in Ministry class. It wasn’t that I was uncomfortable around funerals—I’d helped bury more than 2,000 people. Since I had previously worked as a horticulturist and superintendent […]
If I Should Die Before I Wake . . .
by Steven Clark Goad It has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (1 Timothy 1:10). Why do we fear the inevitable? I remember my childhood bedtime prayers. Is it wrong to teach a lad to […]
God keeps his promises—The Uniform Lesson for June 5
by Sam E. Stone Throughout the Old Testament, “God Instructs His People.” The first five lessons this quarter are from the book of Joshua where we will observe how God’s people learned from prosperity. Joshua is the first of what are commonly called the books of history. Joshua begins where Deuteronomy ends—with the death of […]
