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 Job 14:14: "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come." The featured quote for this episode is from James Patterson. He said, "The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective." Our topic for today is titled "Losing the Christian Death (Part 2)" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- Lacking Spiritual Comforts Christians once saw a window to the next world as a fellow believer entered eternity. Visions of heaven, Jesus and family were once common on the deathbed. This provided faith-sustaining, hope-inducing and grief-allaying comfort to those who survived the death of a loved one. Wells quotes a newspaper account of the 18