My God, my King, my Emperor,
My all-designing Engineer,
My Rider through the skies, with roar
And speed and help, my Charioteer,
My Judge, my Advocate, Release,
My Doom Averted and my Ransom Met,
My Execution and my Peace,
My Friend, my willing Surrogate,
My wind-borne Life, my Health, my Death,
My Door to Paradise, my Gain,
My everlasting Lungs, my Breath,
My final Thorn, my End of pain,
In the latest issue of WORLD Magazine, four graduates of our 2017 World Journalism Institute college class report on a growing trend in the U.S. funeral business: cremations outnumbering burials. But is cremation Biblical? What follows, courtesy of desiringGod.org, is the best article I’ve read on the topic.
On May 12, John Piper delivered the commencement address at Boyce College, the undergraduate school of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Among the 147 graduates was his daughter Talitha. Below, we present Piper’s speech in its entirety, courtesy of desiringGod.org. —Mickey McLean
I want to make plain to all the graduates today that, if you are a Christian, you will spend the rest of your life on this earth with a spiritual condition that may be called sacred schizophrenia.
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