{"id":39458,"date":"2026-02-27T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39458"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:59:59","slug":"260228-final-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260228-final-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Life\u2019s Final Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260228_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260228_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260228_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you share this deep desire: a desire to face death unafraid. To die without fright or a fight, perhaps even with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that\u2019s impossible. But Christ promises in John 14:1-3, \u201cD<strong>on\u2019t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am<\/strong>\u201d (TLB).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus experienced a physical and factual resurrection. And\u2014here it is\u2014 because he did, we will too! If Jesus\u2019 tomb is empty, then his promise is not. So let\u2019s die with faith. Jesus grants courage for the final passage, death. \u00a0No need to dread it or ignore it. Because of Jesus Christ, you can face it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=ed9d33b78d&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3Ded9d33b78d%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1770856680744000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1JJZWU9Zyf54k7XSWVRNHN\"><em>Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you share this deep desire: a desire to face death unafraid. To die without fright or a fight, perhaps even with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that\u2019s impossible. But Christ promises in John 14:1-3, \u201cDon\u2019t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am\u201d (TLB).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus experienced a physical and factual resurrection. And\u2014here it is\u2014 because he did, we will too! If Jesus\u2019 tomb is empty, then his promise is not. So let\u2019s die with faith. Jesus grants courage for the final passage, death.  No need to dread it or ignore it. Because of Jesus Christ, you can face it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39458","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\/39458","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=39458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39461,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39458\/revisions\/39461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}