Turn Your Dead Grandpa into a Tree With This Smart Planter

Turn Your Dead Grandpa into a Tree With This Smart Planter - wired.com

Excerpt from this article:

"After Jay Junker’s father passed away from cancer in 2014, the 33-year-old took his cremated remains and planted them in a field outside the family’s farm house in Vermont. His father, who Junker recalls as outgoing and nature loving, is now a white oak sapling that’s grown from 5 inches to just over 5 feet tall in the last two years."
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Recommended reading:

More Cremations Than Burials in U.S. - Is It Wrong to Cremate Our Loved Ones?

Recommended Sermons For Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Society Crumbles, And The Church LOL, by E.A. Johnston
How To Benefit From A Funeral,  by Dr. David P. Murray
Serious Preaching In A Comedy Culture, by Dr. David P. Murray

Recommended reading:

Preaching and Preachers, by Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones

National Guard Soldier Gets Death Threats for Funeral Pic

Headlines:  National Guard Soldier Gets Death Threats for Funeral Pic - newser.com

Ecerpt from this article:

"A National Guard soldier has been suspended indefinitely from military funeral duties after a picture of her and other soldiers clowning around a training casket surfaced on social media. "We put the FUN in funeral," read the caption on the photo posted on the Instagra..." 
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This article sounds a lot like another recent article in the news: Of Course High Schooler Took Selfie With Dead Body, Posted it on Instagram!). Humor is a gift from God and I think there are many good and appropriate things Christians can laugh at (beginning with themselves!). But death isn't one of them.  The Bible says:

"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." - Hebrews 9:27

And

"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." - 2 Corinthians 5:10,11

Recomomended sermons:

How to Benefit from a Funeral, by Dr. David P. Murray

So, How Do You Benefit from a Funeral?

To find out, please listen to this great sermon by Dr. David P. Murray:

How to Benefit from a Funeral