by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 23, 2017 | Aging, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith FACING DYING FAITHFULLY EXAMPLES OF CHRISTIANS DYING Paul (65) To Live is Christ; To Die is Gain. He suffered numerous life-threatening...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 9, 2017 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
This is the fourth in the series of summaries from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith. This from the chapter: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO IS DYING? Where and when do we in the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2017 | Aging, Atheism, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
I am leading a class on the Christian attitude to dying using material from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith I expected a half dozen or so participants and forty three turned up....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 4, 2017 | Aging, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World
As we enter into the Season of Lent I am reminded of the importance of Jesus’ temptations by the Devil in the wilderness and his subsequent sufferings throughout his ministry culminating in his humiliation, mockery, flogging and death upon the Cross. He modelled for...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2017 | Aging, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith and Joy Goldsmith, have done us a great favor by writing SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Brazos Press, 2012. In the light of their experience of several pastors dying while ministering in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 11, 2015 | Aging, Ministry, Suffering
Atul Gawande, surgeon, author and public health researcher, in his recent book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, argues that the reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and deny...
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