Preparing For The Inevitable

This podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life -- things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death -- the death of people you love and your own death. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8: "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." The featured quote for this episode is from Marcus Aurelius. He said, "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." Our topic for today is titled "The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 2" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- The Christian Art of Dying Since the beginning of the church Christians have cared for the dying and sought to practice their deaths in ways that express belief