How to Administrate a Funeral (For Pastors)

In future posts, I plan to talk more about the content and tone of funerals, but this post will focus on the administrative bits and bobs. And, for that reason, I’ll get straight to the point:

THE FUNERAL PLANNING GUIDE

Funeral Planning Guide

Linked above, you’ll find a PDF version of the Word Document I used to plan funerals. I call it my Funeral Planning Guide. The moment I learn of a death in the …

Diann Warner, RIP

“The Death of Death in the Resurrection of Christ” 1 Corinthians 15:54

A Funeral Homily delivered at the memorial for Diann Warner.

How should we think about death? Over the years I’ve spent time with so many families who have been faced with death. And I can tell you that most of the time, people fall into one of two approaches:

First, I’ve seen the Stoic approach which basically says, “Death is natural. It’s just …