The Father and Son and Holy Ghost are Busy!
(The following is a sketch of what I said at the funeral for Fr. Charles E. Hageman, on 14 March 2016. The picture above is at the graveside service in Midland, TX. This was the same homily I used at his wife's funeral in August 2005). ------ The Father and Son and Holy Ghost are Busy! Romans 8.14-39 (KJV) The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are busy! They’re all over this passage, busily doing something. Why are they so busy? Because sin is just killing us! As the Apostles says just a few chapters earlier, “ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned ” (Romans 5.12). Just as the old New England Primer from the 1600s used to say, “In Adam’s Fall, We Sinned All”. But more than that, there is something of an algorithmic progression: Sin ->Suffering -> death. In the words of Psalm 90, “ …we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age...
