Marriage. Marriage is not what brings us together today. No, today On the Square Russell Saltzman explains how to preach a funeral:
I persist in this notion, an intuition if you like, that the life of every Christian tells us something about how the gospel gets lived, how ordinary Christians with greater and lesser degrees of faithfulness managed to do it. There is a lesson in the lives of the saints rightly remembered that may be properly noted. I try to summarize that from within the gospel.
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