An Easter sermon on how to deal with the reality of our future…death.
By Mark D. Harris, (Resurrection Service, MBC, Easter 2023)
Prelude – Trombone and French Horn, Low in the Grave He Lay
Opening Prayer
Congregational song – Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Congregational song – He Lives
(Standing in a cemetery)
Welcome to our future.
Look around. What do you see? Someday we will all be here, or someplace like it, or scattered across land or sea. We cannot avoid it…no man can. Even God abode in the grave. In a few short decades, or years, or minutes, we will be here, never to leave.
Our place at the table will be empty. Our voice in the home will be stilled. The warmth of our touch and twinkle in our eye will be forgotten. Our hopes and dreams will have come… and gone.
Deep in our hearts, we know that this is wrong. Death seems unnatural, and the decay of our mortal frame is not only terrifying. It is offensive.
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