Audio: Is This Life a Gift From God, Or the Next?
August 12th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
by Matthew Raley
"Mourners," by Etienne Bobillet, 1453, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Each year we gather questions from the community to answer in a sermon series. The sleeper in this year’s batch was the one answered in last Sunday’s sermon. At first, I dismissed the question of whether this life is a gift from God as too easy. But then I wondered whether centuries of Christian teaching about this life hadn’t turned us into mourners without a good reason.
Suddenly it wasn’t so easy after all.
