I already knew this

I have heard a complaint. About some of my preaching and sermons. “It didn’t feed me. I already knew this.” I have heard this after a sermon on life after death, whose message was: there is life after death. Obviously, given the complaint, the experience was lacking in some way for the person involved. The [...]

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Risky sermons

What is risk? What kind of beast is this word? An interesting page (see link) explains that the word originally comes from Greek and refers to a root, a stone, or a cliff. In other words, a risk is a difficulty to avoid. That is the old meaning. Today the meaning is abstract and basically [...]

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Outline of a talk on Life After Death

Life After Death, by Stephen Muires, M.Div., muires@yahoo.com This presentation on Life After Death has three sections. Part one: the purpose of our life before death. In looking at life after death, we are not going to look at death at all! Because if we can’t even find out why we are here, the rest [...]

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Imagine the surprise

Most people do not believe they will still be alive after death. There is no evidence. When people die, they are gone. The body is left behind, sometimes in a bad condition. The person is gone. We don’t know where. It looks like death is a coming to a stop. Life stops, apparently. Death destroys [...]

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Core of the teaching: part two

Part one of this post. This is the idea: there is something inside us that is not physical. Simple. What is not physical has the ability to survive the death of the body. Swedenborg calls this “the internal man.” This is a bit off-putting if you’re a woman. But it’s really just a translation issue: [...]

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Core of the teaching: part one

This is part of a series of communications about life after death. How is it possible that we live after death if our bodies stop functioning and then rot in the grave? I think you’ll agree that this question must totally be answered for any belief in eternal life to be solid. And so there [...]

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All shall be revealed

This is part of a series of communications about life after death. So, in a few short words, what happens to us when we die? And do we have reason to be afraid? After death all that is deeply personal and private will gradually become plainly visible. Our deepest thoughts and feelings will be worn [...]

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Sensitive point

This is part of a series of communications about life after death. Asking a question can be compared to plugging an unknown appliance into the wall socket, hoping that way to find out what the appliance can do. The question, Is there life after death? likewise plugs into a source of energy, intelligent energy, that [...]

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Justice be done

This is part of a series of communications about life after death. Life after death is linked to the idea of or the longing for justice. We see justice in the world, but many things are left unjust, unpunished, unrewarded. So we imagine this justice to take place after death. However, with all those many [...]

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Meaningless life

Part of a series of communications about life after death. I heard the following argument once in an Eckhart Tolle talk. It’s about the nature of death. We live intensely individual lives. We are unique beings, we feel we are unique, we know we are unique, and we see this uniqueness also in all people [...]

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Lack of info

This is part 2 in a series on life after death. So we were going to talk about something else. Anything but life after death. Give me a break already… We don’t have information about life after death. Well, no, there ain’t any, so that might explain the lack of info… Religious people always refer [...]

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The Bleak Prospect

This is the first in a series of communications about life after death. Should be a popular topic. If it’s a topic at all. After all, there is no life after death… The bleak prospect is that of life ending at death. That was the view, the conviction, the certainty that I lived with for [...]

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