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 Hebrews 9:27: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" The featured quote for this episode is from Euripides. He said, "No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow." Our topic for today is titled "The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 1" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. In late winter during the 59th year of his life, John Donne braved the weather and rough roads of the English countryside to keep his final preaching engagement before the king in London. He had spent most of that winter, which would be his last, battling "consumption," and on several occasions he nearly died. But he was eager to simply preach again. Donne had grown to love h