CREMATING or EMBALMING THE HUMAN BODY A Christian Perspective and Alternative Dr. Jerry Nelson www.Soundliving.org When my mother-in-law died at age 50, it was assumed by most of the family that her body would be embalmed in preparation for the funeral and burial. If her death occurred today, my guess is that the family …
How do I Pray for my Unconverted Loved One or Friend? In Romans 10:1 Paul wrote, “Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them (his fellow Jews) is that they may be saved.” We are told to pray for those things which are God’s will. John 14:13 “And I will do whatever you …
. Nancy Pearcy and Anthony Esolen have recently written excellent books countering t he cultural attack on men and masculinity. This four-page summary of those books is very worth reading. Notes on Books by Gerard ReedFebruary 2024 Number Three Hundred Seventy-four***********************************************************************THE WAR ON MASCULINITYHimself childless, C.S. Lewis still wrote: “Children are not a distraction from more …
I Got it Wrong – Reflections on 50 years in Ministry Part 3 Jerry Nelson In parts 1 and 2 of this series I wrote of other ways I got it “right” or “wrong.” See www.soundliving.org “Bigger is Better?” I was reared in post-WWII middle-America when everything was booming. Everything was bigger and better. In …
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Am I a Christian? Jerry Nelson Have you noticed the answers you hear when you ask evangelical Christians how they know they are Christians? At least in my social circles, I have heard such answers as, “I believe in Jesus,” “I received Christ,” “I asked Jesus into my heart,” “I went forward when I was …
I Got it Right – Reflections on 50 years in Ministry Part 2 Jerry Nelson In other “parts” of this intended series, I write of how I got it wrong. See Part 1 as an example. This time I will write about how I got it right. Expositional Preaching: In my early theological training at …
I Got It Wrong: Reflections on 50 Years of Ministry Part 1 Jerry Nelson In 1960 the Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive. Within 24 months over 1.2 million American women were using “the Pill.” (AMA Journal of Ethics) I was married in June of 1964 and my wife and I considered …
What Kind of God Do We Believe In? Jerry Nelson February 2023 The following is addressed to Christians who struggle with the concept of what happens to unbelievers when they die. This is not for those who do not believe in God or do not believe what God has declared in the Bible. The Problem: …
“Human love, Martin Luther claims, is reactive: it responds to something intrinsically attractive in an object, which consequently draws it out. In other words, human love is attracted to what it first finds lovely. When a husband recalls the moment he fell in love with his wife, he remembers that he saw something intrinsically attractive …
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