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During my 33 years as pastor of Village Baptist Church in Bowie, Maryland, I delivered many eulogies for church members, former church members, family of church members, and other persons in the community. Over the years I also have given eulogies for my own family members: my grandmother, my sister-in-law, my father, my sister, and my brother-in-law. Serving as a eulogist is one of my most important and meaningful ministries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The purpose of a eulogy is at least threefold: to give voice to our grief, to remember the person who has died, and to lift up our Christian hope. My goal in writing and delivering the eulogy is to tell the story of the person with honesty and compassion, and to comfort the family and friends with the assurance of God's presence and our hope of life eternal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A eulogy can include reflections on passages of scripture, but the focus is on the individual who is being remembered and on our Christian hope in the face of loss. Unlike sermons where I often use illustrations from my own life, eulogies tell the stories of someone else, and I seek to minimize my own footprints, except in relationship to the person being remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eulogies are more reflective and less didactic than sermons. They invite us to reflect upon the lives of persons no longer with us, but whose influence is still being felt. Eulogies seek the presence of God in the aftermath of loss. 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Without Easter, there would be no church. All four gospels present the Resurrection as historical occurrence, and most of the other books of the New Testament allude to or elucidate the meaning of the Resurrection. That Jesus died for our sins and was raised to new life by the power of God is the heart of the gospel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEaster is the most important day of the Christian year. Thus, it seems fitting that we should read and study the accounts on which Easter is based, namely the stories in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The goal of this volume is to move beneath the surface of the stories to explore what the Resurrection means for our lives. This is the method of spelunking scripture. As we examine each passage, we move beyond the details of the narrative to probe how it speaks to us, and to seek connections with life today. Each resurrection narrative, or post-resurrection appearance, is interpreted by three sermons. 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