Giving Up Death - 7
GIVING UP DEATH Well, we’ve made it! This is the seventh and last message in our Giving it Up series, so that means we are celebrating the joy of Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday! Hallelujah and praises to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! The same Jesus who has arisen from the dead and changed the dialogue about death forever. We no longer look at death as an ending but as a glorious beginning. I am reminded about the story of the little six-year-old boy named David who was taking a walk one day with his grandmother. They decided to detour through the local graveyard. They stopped to read some of the tombstones and Grandma explained that the first date on the tombstones was the day the person was born and the second date was the day the person died. "Why do some tombstones only have one date?" little David asked. "Because those people haven't died yet," his grandmother explained. David was obviously stunned by his grandmother's exp