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Eulogies for the Living
Numbers 20:1
And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.We’ve all been to the graveside of a friend or loved one who we didn’t really got along with in life and discovered how death brings out both the best in them and the best in us, right? In them, because we remember those redeeming qualities and memories we tended to overlook; and in us, because we finally give the gratitude and grace we found so difficult to extend.
We haven’t exactly seen the best of Miriam in these final chapters of her journey, but reading of her death in Numbers 20:1 immediately fills me with a sense of gratitude for the heroism she displayed at a young age. Remember that defining moment recorded in Exodus 1? There Moses floated, in a basket of pitch, his life hanging in the balance, hovering over enemy waters; yet there Miriam stood at his side, like a pillar of fire, watching over him from the bullrushes, protecting him till an Egyptian princess approached the waters to bathe. Not just any princess though, but Pharaoh’s daughter! The same cruel, tyrannical Pharaoh who’d placed Moses in this predicament to begin with, calling for the extermination of all Jewish boys under the age of two! But like David before Goliath and Daniel before the lions and Peter before the Sanhedrin, young Miriam, even as a little slave girl before a seeming goddess, had the fortitude to rise and be named among the righteous. Refusing to abandon her infant brother to the river’s flow, not crumbling under the weight of the crucible as many would have, she made that crucial offer that got Moses out of that basket, back into his mother’s arms, and eventually into a palace where God would groom him into the greatest man the world had yet seen. If I could write an epitaph over Miriam’s life, it would simply say this: “Before Moses delivered God’s people; Miriam delivered Moses.”
Friend, let’s not wait for the funeral to express the good we see in our brothers and sisters. Let’s eulogize them now, while they’re still with us, even while you’re still at odds! Because that’s when it means the most.
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Sin is Oh So Draining
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In Christ Alone
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Guardians of the Gift
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Sabbath Psalm (From E. W. Blandy’s hymn, ‘Take the World but Give Me Jesus’)
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A Sappy Symbol
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Rhetorical Righteousness
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A Powerful Posture
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Making Memories
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 2
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Philip P. Bliss’s hymn, ‘Let the Lower Lights be Burning’)
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 1
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Stop the Rot!
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Jesus Love the Little Children
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Beating Hearts
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One-Sided
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Joseph Scriven’s hymn, ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’)
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The Beginning of Wisdom
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The Grasshopper Principle
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Do You See What I See?
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Time Out
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A Reconciling Rebuke
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s beloved hymn, ‘Near the Cross’)
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Unrighteous Rhetoric
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A Story Shared
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 2
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 1
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Famished
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from George Matheson’s hymn ‘O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go’)
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Burning
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High Notes and Low Notes
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Silver Chords
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The Waiting Room
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The One and the Many
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn ‘A Student’s Prayer’)
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Transitions
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The Gold Standard
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Between the Angels
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An Acceptable Approach
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Waxing Lyrical
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn, ‘Just One Step at a Time’)
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Locks of Love
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A Nazirite New Year
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Love is Jealous, Love is Kind
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Get Your Hard Hat Ready
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Blue Collar Cloth
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’)
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Beyond the Blue
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A Most Sacred Order
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status
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Enduring Love
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Don’t Light the Fuse!
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The Last Word
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Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!
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God Knows Best
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Gunning for Bear
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Parental Endowment
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Steadfast, Immovable
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Paying Penance?
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Stone-Blind
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Going the Extra Mile
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A Priceless Pearl
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Revenge Denied
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Trying Your Patience
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By Faith, Not by Sight
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Begging Your Pardon
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Lift That Weight!
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Keep Swinging
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The Heavens Declare
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Let’s Go Fishing!
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Parking Space #23
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Measureless Grace
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No Man Left Behind
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Completing the Puzzle
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Skeletons in the Closet
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Deposits and Investments
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Piercing the Darkness
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You’re on Candid Camera!
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Dry Bones
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Without Love
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Father Knows Best
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Putting on the Dog
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The Dreaded Word: Practice!
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Walking in the Spirit
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Down Memory Lane
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The Stops of a Good Man
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Truly Good News
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The Good Shepherd
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People of the Word
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Imitating Christ
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The One Left Standing
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Invisibly Involved
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“Not Guilty!”
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But You, O Lord . . .
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God Uses Broken Things
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Then Comes the Good Part!