Funeral For A Faithful Farmer
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 15:35-44
Richard and Sarah Jane (his wife) were farmers. Almost everything they touched had to do with farming. They were involved with Farm Bureau and 4H, and the only vacation they took every year was to the State Fair. And at 4H - Richard did farmer stuff. He was in charge of the hog barns, and tractor maintenance. He was so into farming that one of his favorite past-times was going to tractor-pulls. You could say Richard LOVED farming. And he'd have fully understood the passage I read for us today.
''Someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?' You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.''
This passage had a special appeal to a man like Richard, because Richard was a Christian, a man who wanted God to run his life. For Richard - God was his source of life. He literally believed that God had promised him a resurrection. That the day was going to come when the Lord would descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And Richard would rise from the grave to live with Jesus forever.
That's why, every Sunday Richard was in Church. He and Sarah Jane were faithful members of the Indian Creek Christian church. He might go to an all-night tractor pull the night before - but he was up for church every Sunday. It was so obvious, the church gave him a 40 year perfect attendance pin.
Eventually, he and Sarah Jane started coming to Logansport. The always came to the 1st service because they didn't like the modern music. But even after he went to Woodbridge (a local nursing home) and our bus couldn't get him he came to the 2nd service... and just put up with the music, because Jesus meant so much to him he would NEVER miss church.
I remember Richard as a gentle a ...
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 15:35-44
Richard and Sarah Jane (his wife) were farmers. Almost everything they touched had to do with farming. They were involved with Farm Bureau and 4H, and the only vacation they took every year was to the State Fair. And at 4H - Richard did farmer stuff. He was in charge of the hog barns, and tractor maintenance. He was so into farming that one of his favorite past-times was going to tractor-pulls. You could say Richard LOVED farming. And he'd have fully understood the passage I read for us today.
''Someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?' You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.''
This passage had a special appeal to a man like Richard, because Richard was a Christian, a man who wanted God to run his life. For Richard - God was his source of life. He literally believed that God had promised him a resurrection. That the day was going to come when the Lord would descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And Richard would rise from the grave to live with Jesus forever.
That's why, every Sunday Richard was in Church. He and Sarah Jane were faithful members of the Indian Creek Christian church. He might go to an all-night tractor pull the night before - but he was up for church every Sunday. It was so obvious, the church gave him a 40 year perfect attendance pin.
Eventually, he and Sarah Jane started coming to Logansport. The always came to the 1st service because they didn't like the modern music. But even after he went to Woodbridge (a local nursing home) and our bus couldn't get him he came to the 2nd service... and just put up with the music, because Jesus meant so much to him he would NEVER miss church.
I remember Richard as a gentle a ...
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