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Care in Honouring and Grieving the Dead

Three Elements That Need to Be in Every Funeral Sermon

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  • Brian Croft

This article offers three key components that should be in a funeral message: acknowledge the need to grieve, make the hope of the gospel clearly known, and call your hearers to respond to the gospel.

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Changes at the House of Mourning

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  • Lawrence W. Bilkes

Funeral services can be daunting at times. This articles sheds some light on this topic. It calls for simplicity in a funeral service, showing how one can be Christ-centred.

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What Are Three Ways for a Pastor to Prepare His Heart before Conducting a Funeral?

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  • Brian Croft

The author offers three very practical suggestions for pastors who are called upon to conduct a funeral: prepare for the unexpected, prepare to minister God's Word, and prepare to extend the hope of Christ.

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Pastoring the Dying and Bereaved

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  • Arthur Bentley-Taylor

This article shows that the dying and bereaved need pastoral care. This pastoral care must be characterized by love, speaking to people about God, who is the creater and sustainer of all things.

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Preaching the Funeral of an Unbeliever

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  • Nicholas T. Batzig

Preaching at the funeral of someone who was almost surely an unbeliever is very difficult. This article offers a few things worth considering if you are given such an opportunity: talk about the fall, death, and judgment, exalt Christ, hold out the hope of the resurrection, emphasize the role of faith, and stay away from eulogizing.

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How to Lead an Unbeliever’s Funeral

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  • Jared C. Wilson

Have you ever as a pastor led a funeral service of an unbeliever? Should pastors do that? This article shares some insights on leading such a service.

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Seven Tips for Preaching a Stranger’s Funeral

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  • Dustin Neeley

One of the challenges for most pastors is to conduct a funeral service for someone you do not know. How do you do that? This article offers seven tips for conducting such a funeral service.

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Five Lessons on Planning Funerals You Can’t Learn in Seminary

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  • Eric McKiddie

Every pastor will participate in a funeral program. How do you plan for funerals? This article shares five lessons on planning funerals.

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I Forbid You to Say These Things at My Funeral

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  • Tim Challies

What do you want people to say about you at your funeral? Maybe it is also worthwhile to say what you do not want people to say at your funeral. This article explores the latter.

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5 Marks of a Good Funeral

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  • Tim Challies

Is there such a thing as a good funeral? This article argues that there must be one, and such a funeral is marked by five things.

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When an Unbeliever Dies: Offering Comfort without Distorting the Truth

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  • George Lawson

This article explains how to deliver a funeral message for an unbeliever. It shows that there are words of comfort and truth that can be shared with those who grieve, even when their loved one's eternal destiny is uncertain.

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Election and reprobation proceed on different grounds: one the grace of God, the other the sin of man. Loraine Boettner
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