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I Admit it, You are Better Than Me

June 4th, 2007 by Carl Thomas.

I know a bunch of you out there have active ministries and active lives and manage to post to your blogs regularly.  You are better than me.  But lately it has been really hectic for me.

I preach at an outreach every Tuesday and preach a service every Friday.   I have done a wedding each of the past two weeks and will preach an additional time Wednesday night of this week.  And don’t forget I don’t preach for a living.  I have to hustle to make ends meet through secular employment.

But this week on top of trying to work to support my family and before preaching Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, I have to do my first funeral tomorrow.  Doing the funeral is no big deal except the person was not saved.  And nobody in the family is saved (except maybe the chain smoking lady who is married to the ex-husband of the deceased).  Oh, and I did not know her, or her family.

When I talked to the family they said things like, “She was really stubborn.”  and “she was a complete narcissist.”   Not exactly memories of comfort to pepper your sermon with.

So if you are less busy than me, please pray that I get some level of wisdom for this funeral.

And if you happen to have a funeral sermon on your desk that is suitable for a stubborn narcissist that did not know the Lord that I could deliver to a room full of people who have no faith in the Scriptures would you mind emailing it to revivalblog@gmail.com?

Thanks

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2 Responses to “I Admit it, You are Better Than Me”

  1. Michael G. Davis | 6/06/07

    Wow Carl, that is really a tough one. I did a funeral under similar circumstances and it was the hardest thing I have ever done.

    Though family and friends were all sure the lady went to Heaven, they all got really mad at me when I mentioned basic things like John 3:16 and that there is a God who sent his Son to save the world and that you could be assured of your destination through faith in him.

    I still don’t know what I would have done differently except to decline the invitation.

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