Confessing Christ to Someone Near Death

Someone in my parish asked, “Pastor, how do I confess Jesus Christ to someone dying in hospice?”  This is what I shared. With someone in hospice, there’s no need to dance around the subject of death.  Most likely, the person knows something is seriously wrong with him and that he is dying.  See this as an opportunity […]

The False Teaching of the “Rapture”

A Biblical and Historical Look at the “Rapture” By Pr. Rich Futrell, The belief in the Rapture teaches that one day, without warning, Christians will “be taken” up to heaven, while non-Christians will be left behind on the earth.  God will remove Christians from the earth to spare them the Anti-Christ’s tribulation, which the rest […]

Advent 1

Intro They are nearly gone.  The leaves, that is.  Rich in the green of spring, they are even more stunning in autumn: gold, auburn, red as if on fire.  Then follows the falling leaves and the blowing wind.  Finally, only the muted-brown pallor of death remains.  This death is followed by cold, biting wind, and […]