Lent Sermons Part 2: Dealing With Grief

February 28, 2008

I’ve been doing an “ambitious” series during Lent. I call it “ambitious,” because once my church folks caught on to where I was going, they might have decided to skip church during Lent.

The series is “Living With Death” – coming to terms with our own deaths, the deaths of those we love, and other things we typically don’t like to think about (but that are important to think about anyway). This is the second sermon in the series, on losing those we love and on comforting those who have experienced a loss. I was concerned to discuss some of the psycho-emotional aspects of the grief process, alongside our theology and how it makes a difference to people of faith. Read the rest of this entry »