25 February 2025
LegacyFaith, hope, and the things we leave behind
Faith is what you carry with you. Hope is what you hold for others. The things you leave behind are how they know both were real.
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24 September 2024
LegacyWhat love looks like on paper
Love is patient, love is kind — and sometimes love is a letter, written before it was needed, waiting in an envelope for the day it is.
Read more12 March 2024
LegacyStewardship of your last words
You are a steward of everything God has given you — your time, your resources, your gifts. Your last words are no exception.
Read more23 January 2024
LegacyThe Christian tradition of farewell letters
From Paul to Polycarp to Bonhoeffer, Christians have written letters knowing they might not survive to say it in person. You stand in a long tradition.
Read more6 June 2023
LegacyThe letters of the early martyrs
Ignatius wrote seven letters on his way to execution. Polycarp wrote to the Philippians knowing he might die. What they chose to say is remarkable.
Read more14 March 2023
LegacyWhy your testimony matters after you are gone
Your testimony is not just for the living room or the church service. It may be most powerful when it arrives in a letter, at the moment someone needs it most.
Read more4 January 2023
LegacyThe ministry of written words
Most of the New Testament is letters. The faith was built, preserved, and transmitted through written words. There is a ministry in writing to someone you love.
Read more20 September 2022
LegacyWhat Paul wrote knowing he might die
Paul's letters to Timothy were written by a man who knew his time was short. What he chose to say — and what he left out — is instructive.
Read more27 September 2021
LegacyWhy legacy letters are an act of love
A legacy letter says: I thought about you before I had to. I chose the words while I still could. That is love in its most deliberate form.
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