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 Ezekiel 18:32: "For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live." The featured quote for this episode is from Dean Koontz. He said, "Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one." Our topic for today is titled "Losing the Christian Death (Part 3)" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- We Have No Christian Dying There is an untapped reservoir of Christian b