Life, Death, and Resurrection

Pastor Matthew Best
6 min readMar 9, 2023

These three words make up a central tenet of our faith. But do we really grasp what it is we are saying when we say we believe these things?

The easiest one may be life because we are living. We think we know what life is. We are most familiar with it after all. But are we? Do we live life to the fullest? Or do we block of parts of life? Do we wall off parts of life that we prefer not to experience? Do we compartmentalize portions of life?

What is life after all? Isn’t life a full range of things — some pleasant and some not so pleasant. Life is…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.