{"id":38981,"date":"2026-01-19T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38981"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:22:24","slug":"260119-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260119-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Final Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Death is not the final chapter in your story. John 11:25-26 assure us that in death we will step into the arms of the One who declared, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die<\/strong>\u201d (NIV).<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill believed this. The prime minister planned his own funeral. Two buglers were positioned in the dome of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral. At the conclusion of the service, the first played Taps, the signal of a day completed; the second played Reveille, the song of a day begun. Death is no pit but a passageway, a corner turn. Isaiah wrote, \u201cYour dead will live\u2026All you dead and buried, wake up! Sing!\u2026The earth is bursting with life, giving birth to the dead<\/strong>\u201d (Isaiah 26:19 MSG).<\/p>\n

So play on, bugler, play on!<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Death is not the final chapter in your story. John 11:25-26 assure us that in death we will step into the arms of the One who declared, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die\u201d (NIV).<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill believed this. The prime minister planned his own funeral. Two buglers were positioned in the dome of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral. At the conclusion of the service, the first played Taps, the signal of a day completed; the second played Reveille, the song of a day begun. Death is no pit but a passageway, a corner turn. Isaiah wrote, \u201cYour dead will live\u2026All you dead and buried, wake up! Sing!\u2026The earth is bursting with life, giving birth to the dead\u201d (Isaiah 26:19 MSG).<\/p>\n

So play on, bugler, play on! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38983,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38981\/revisions\/38983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}