The hardest task the preacher has to face is the preaching of funerals, especially those of suicides or non-Christians. Many kind and lovely things may be said of the Christians at death. There is all the comfort of God to be offered to the sorrowing relatives of these. But how very difficult to find any [...]
There are weddings and weddings. There are weddings at five o’clock in the morning and weddings at eleven o’clock at night. There are weddings in the pastor’s study, in the pastor’s home, in the bride’s home, in the church building, in a friend’s garden, in a boat and in an airplane. They are married in [...]
A baptismal service may be very beautiful, but also may be very grotesque. As in the matter of weddings, be prepared, Oswald, for anything.
There are large and weak-hearted ladies who may faint at the crucial moment. Go on and dunk ‘em; water will bring them back. There are those excitable souls who are prone to [...]