Casey Lee Agan

Opening Words / Prayer

We have all gathered here today as family and friends to celebrate the life and morn the loss of Casey Lee Agan. Casey was a devoted father, loving Son, faithful friend, and a true believer in Jesus Christ.

Let Pray together.

Father, as I look out over this sea of people, I am reminded of how much we need the comfort of your Holy Spirit in moments like these. We need the strength of our salvation that only comes through your Son Jesus Christ. I ask you to meet with us in this place. Comfort the family with the sweet memories of Casey. Let these moments that we don’t understand bring us into a better understanding of you. We miss Casey more than our hearts can bear. But we rest assured in the fact that he is with you, that you are a God of your word, and that because of your resurrection we will see Casey again. We need you in these moments more than ever. Thank you for hearing the prayers of your people. In Jesus name amen.

Eulogy: J. Collins

Song: Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone (Josh Reiff)

Message: The Hope of the Ressurrection

As we remember Casey there will be a few things that stand out in my mind.

He loved his girls with all his heart. They were his life. He loved spending time with them and playing with them. Every time he would talk to me about them he would just light up.

Casey loved life. He loved to ride motorcycles and he loved music.

Music is how I met Casey. As we were forming the Band for our new Church plant we had put out a facebook post needing a drummer. I think Debbie saw the post and he answered the call to come and help us. He would haul his drums up to the dance studio and set up every week and helped us get Reliant off the ground.

He very quickly became a brother to us. We shared life together. We prayed together and for each other. Even in some of the darkest times we never lost touch and we never lost hope.

Casey was learning to play the guitar and was coming back home from his lesson when something went wrong that caused the accident that has forever changed all of our lives.

Situation and circumstances like we find ourselves in today is just another painful reminder of how precious and frail life can be.

We see no rhyme or reason to it. We have no ability to understanding of it. And it is in these moments that we must focus on the precious promises of God and the hope of our salvation in Christ.

I can’t think of a greater loss than for a parent to lose a child. It’s a pain I hope I never have to experience. But we take comfort in the fact that we serve a God who understands exactly the feelings that we are going through.

Jesus Feels your Pain

Hebrews 4:14–15 KJV 1900

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

God knows your pain. God has the ability to sympathies and empathize with you in these moments.

I’m reminded of the Story when Jesus lost one of his closest friends here on the earth. Jesus got the news that Lazarus was sick and then died. He was four days out but made the trip back to Bethany.

John 11:17-

John 11:17–19 ESV

17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

They were gathered much like we are here today. Family and Friends consoling one another.

Jesus is the Resurrection

John 11:

John 11:20–26 ESV

20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

You se we don’t hope for a future event of resurrection. We put our hope in the person who is the resurrection. This is the same person that Casey believed in.

This is the same Jesus that Casey put his faith in as a 10 year old boy and dedicated his life to even when I met him. His trust in Jesus never changed.

I’m so glad that the the power of the Resurrection is not determined by what I do but by the person of Christ in which we have placed our trust.

The Resurrection Power is stronger than your questions.

John 11:32 ESV

32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

John 11:32

Don’t be afraid to ask the questions.

Sometimes we have the same question as Mary, “Where are you God?”

But Jesus is right there.

John 11:33–36 ESV

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

John 11:33

John 11:

John 11:32–37 ESV

32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

Sometimes we have the same questions as the crowd, “Are you not powerful enough to save us?”

Jesus will meet you in the questions.

Jesus has the power to overcome all the questions through the resurrection.

Jesus calls us out of the grave.

John 11:38–39 ESV

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”

John 11:

John 11:43–44 ESV

43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

: 44

This same Jesus has called Casey home. To be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.

Casey is not waiting on a resurrection. He is with the Resurrection.

Casey is with the Lord.

Today is the day of Salvation

Jesus was 33 when he died and rose again.

Casey was 36 when he passed on.

Time is precious and time is short.

What have you placed your trust in for the resurrection?

Are you trusting in yourself for the resurrection?

We are so weak and fragile we are just trying to maintain life here much less a resurrection.

Have you placed your trust in Jesus, the resurrection and the life?

Song: It is Well (Jessica Mack)