Mark_18

I'm serious - I don't want a funeral. I want it to be called a wedding, and everyone who will come is invited. I want my casket up front beside a cross, and someone to give my whole life testimony, and then give scripture and tell of the party I'm now having in heaven. And then everybody has food and loud Christian music and they party and dance. Now - the Holy Spirit is invited and alcohol is not. They must offer the new wine to anyone who is thirsty.

I also wanna be buried with a bible and a flashlight, just in case.

You guys have to have a party here on CFS too and say good things about me.

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Luke 15:31 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Joel 2:28 - I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Psalms 126:5 - Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

JOKE POLICE

SweetSurrender

Oh, Mark, you tickle me! Doncha know, we will all be dead before you! Most of us old ones anyway.

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"Do not imagine that you must comprehend or understand it all before you seek and find it. For those who wait on Him, God will do more than they can conceive." Andrew Murray

Mark_18

You mean you'll be ALIVE before me.

But we don't know that.

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Luke 15:31 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Joel 2:28 - I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Psalms 126:5 - Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

JOKE POLICE

Boanerges

Indeed! No death = no resurrection.

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“Neither skill nor knowledge is needed to go to God, all that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.”
Brother Lawrence

3nails+1cross=4GIVEN

Hey.That's an interesting way to look at it.

I want a white casket with red interior & I wana be dressed in black (:
though I duno if anyone will share abt me =x

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Jesus first,others second,then yourself. (=


SIdEkick to ThE joKePoliCE;

The reason you died,was because I lived?


Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

Boanerges

I will be cremated and my ashes spread (cause it is cheaper). Why waste money on this old shell once I leave it?.
Is flushing down the toilet considered a burial at sea?

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“Neither skill nor knowledge is needed to go to God, all that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.”
Brother Lawrence

3nails+1cross=4GIVEN

what about the pooooooor ?

don't really like the idea of creamation..

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Jesus first,others second,then yourself. (=


SIdEkick to ThE joKePoliCE;

The reason you died,was because I lived?


Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

Whirlwind

I've told my mom that I put aside money for my passing. I have a will and my last wishes recorded just in case. I also told them that I don't want anybody to stand in line for a funeral loan - my tribe gives funeral loans to people who need it during deaths on the reservation.

Those funeral loans have caused more grief than helping. People get angry with each other...so-and-so should have just given their funeral loan to so-and-so because he hardly knew them! They're just going to spend their funeral loan on nonsense! There's bickering about who bought food and how much it cost. Who paid for this and who paid for that.

I hate going to funerals for that reason.

Our traditional funerals last for three days and three nights. It's very exhausting. My grandpa died on 9/11 (yes that one). I was living in Vancouver and traveled home for that one. Oh, man! Bickering, quarelling, hurt feelings. He was a politically powerful man, you know, and he was the Bishop of the Church. He was best friends with Governor Vic Atiyeh, and he got along great with Reagan. He had a strong belief in Jesus and God. I don't think he would have wanted to have seen any of what happened at his funeral, it was shameful.

Anyways...these bodies of ours, they all go back to dust no matter what.

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Chapter-by-Chapter, verse-by-verse.
Jesus is the Living Word.

Boanerges

My wife used to work for the arch-dioceses in the greater New Orleans area. The graveyards here are large and filled with some fantastic artwork- they are know as the cities of the dead. They took them on tour in the cemeteries and facilities. All those fancy crypts you see are connected by drain lines. After a little while in the ground the body liquefies and drains into a common cesspool.

I can't see spending a lot of money on my body after death. It is an unnecessary burden of family members and I wont be using that old shell anyway. No use visiting me at a grave site either since I won't be there.

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“Neither skill nor knowledge is needed to go to God, all that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.”
Brother Lawrence

Mark_18

I've told some people already not to spend much money - they can just make a plywood box for me. lol.

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Luke 15:31 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Joel 2:28 - I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Psalms 126:5 - Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

JOKE POLICE