In the ICU, not in the sanctuary... but the pastor got the word during the service. Wonderful gentleman who I'd greet every week and chat a bit with.
As Kierkegaard put it:
But in the Christian understanding of it, death itself is a transition unto life. In view of this, there is from the Christian standpoint no early, bodily sickness unto death. For death is doubtless the last phase of the sickness, but death is not the last thing....
When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death.
Christians can uniquely celebrate death as a continuance of the eternal.
In the ICU, not in the sanctuary... but the pastor got the word during the service. Wonderful gentleman who I'd greet every week and chat a bit with.
As Kierkegaard put it:
> But in the Christian understanding of it, death itself is a transition unto life. In view of this, there is from the Christian standpoint no early, bodily sickness unto death. For death is doubtless the last phase of the sickness, but death is not the last thing....
> When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death.
Christians can uniquely celebrate death as a continuance of the eternal.
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