You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal with It — Rachel Jankovic (book review)

Note (May 20th, 2020): My previous endorsement of You Who is under reconsideration after my having done much more study into Federal Vision theology. I have left the below review just as it was before for the time being. —GPO In You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal with It, author Rachel Jankovic writes against the …

Preaching to a Funeral Audience, part 2

If you haven't read part 1, read that first. Christ Died for Sinners Think of any story where someone risks his or her own life for a friend or even a stranger. A man in a New York subway station falls onto the train tracks. Suddenly, some stranger jumps down and lifts the man up …

Preaching to a Funeral Audience, part 1

The ostensible goal was to gather a million believers on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The effort surely fell short, but there was at least a decent crowd. So the claim goes, it turned out to be "the largest Christian event in the history of the United States." And the gospel presentations therein fell rather …

A Primer of Hospice Ministry

What is Hospice? Hospice care is a form of palliative (rather than curative) care, wherein the focus is on making the terminally ill patient as comfortable as possible rather than curing the terminal illness. Within the United States, patients become eligible for the Medicare hospice benefit when a doctor and the hospice medical director agree …