Funerals are creepy. You heard me, they are spooky and strange and unnerving. This seems like heresy coming from a believer in the God who conquered death, don’t ya think?

Not so fast my speck-plucking friend. If you’re honest you have to agree that funerals are scary primarily because they start off in a funeral home. Funeral homes in that Victorian motif with the strange hearses in front of the building and the back doors that bring in the dead C’MON!

Walking into a funeral parlor is always a bit awkward and tentative for me as well because I never ...   more »

I don’t think people take Hell very seriously anymore. We used to. As a matter of fact it was one of the reasons why people were nicer years ago because they didn’t want to go to Hell. That was a curse word; literally to tell someone to go to Hell was bad. Why not? You are condemning someone to an eternal existence in a place where your flesh is being burned off your skull while demons are constantly poking your butt with pitchforks. Face it, it would suck.

Now "Hell" is apparently a positive word. We even compare places to ...   more »

What is a martyr? I always thought of it as something I would rather avoid, but if it happened to happen to me, it would look good on my eternal resume. In this age though of Islamic fanatics murdering innocents in the name of martyrdom, I thought it expedient to draw some specific distinctions.

A Christian martyr, for example, dies so someone else can either live or know the truth about life. t’s the celebration of life by being willing to die for life, usually someone else’s, that is its beauty. It’s giving yourself away so others live.

In other ...   more »