Why Is Death So Hard to Deal With? | My Favorite Verses | Ecclesiastes 3.19

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

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Are you afraid of dying? Does death make you uneasy? A lot of people feel that way, and there's a reason. Find out why death is so hard for us to deal with from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) as he continues our series on My Favorite Verses with https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+3.19&version=ESV (Ecclesiastes 3.19). Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-jesuss-death-gives-us-eternal-life-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-22-7-38/ (How Jesus's Death Gives Us Eternal Life) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-the-living-can-learn-from-the-dying-seeing-through-the-eyes-of-a-dying-man-john-drage/ (What the Living Can Learn from the Dying). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:06.5	I'm Keith Simon. And I'm Patrick Miller. We are currently exploring some of our favorite Bible verses and how they've changed our lives.
0:15.0	Also, if you want to connect with us, follow us on Twitter at TMBT Podcast.
0:20.0	You can also check out our hashtag,
0:22.0	hashtag Ask TMBT, where you can ask us anything and we'd love to connect with you.
0:30.0	I will never forget my first funeral. My aunt Diane, she passed away at a very young age.
0:35.8	At the time I was in seventh grade, but her kids were even younger than me.
0:39.8	And to this day, I still have fun memories of her.
0:43.1	She was always warm, kind.
0:44.9	She was engaged with me and my sister.
0:47.3	And it meant a lot because we didn't have a super tight extended family.
0:51.3	And that was something I always kind of wanted and I felt like I had that when I was around my Aunt Diane
0:57.0	But then she was gone. I remember going to her funeral because I'd never attended one before.
1:03.0	And it's one of those strange parts actually of living in the modern West.
1:07.0	In the ancient world, death was everywhere.
1:09.0	And there were no professionals to take care of your death arrangements.
1:13.2	There was no funeral homes or anything like that.
1:15.8	And so that meant that most people from a very young age, they knew the sights, the sounds,
1:20.9	the smells, the pain and the grief associated with death because death was everywhere and everybody had to help.
1:28.0	Personally, I basically went 13 years without really experiencing it.
1:33.0	And when I did, I felt terribly uncomfortable.
1:35.8	I remember the room was full and people were milling around a church foyer.
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