Faith to Feel
Faith to Feel
Exploring the Business of Caring for the Dead and Ministering to the Grieving: A Funeral Home Director's Story
This podcast episode is an inside look into the funeral industry. Our featured guest, Earl Bright, a funeral home founder and director, shares his unique journey dealing with death and grief in an honest and thought-provoking way. Bright says there were “moments of levity” during his more than 40 years as a funeral home director and explains ways we can comfort the grieving.
Show Notes:
Music Composed and Performed by Aaron Geneus
Bible Scriptures to Comfort the Grieving:
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
John 16:22
So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Psalm 68:5
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling.
Isaiah 66:13
”As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”
Psalm 34: 18
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Revelation 21:4
‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Philippians 4:13
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
