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  Exploring the Valley of the Shadow of Death

  Posted on November 28, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me (Psalm 23:4). As a pastor, I have attended the bedside of believers as they passed from this life to the next. There’s something unnerving […]

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• My Funeral is Back On

  Posted on March 2, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I’ve heard pastors say that if people really knew what was in their hearts, they would not want them as their pastor. I can attest that pastors sin with the best of them. Lust and greed and envy and all sorts of sin roam dangerously in their hearts. Pastors don’t minister on the basis […]

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• How do we comfort the non-Christian in grief?

  Posted on February 2, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Knowing what to say to someone in grief is invariably a tricky endeavor. We want to express sympathy without sounding cliché, and certainly without saying something insensitive. That challenge rises to another level when it comes to extending comfort to someone who is perhaps religious but not a professed Christian, nor was the one […]

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