Dean Rogers Funeral

Reading of Obituary

Scripture Reading

John 14:1–6 NLT

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.” “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Romans 8:35, 37-39

Memories of Dean

Dean the Worker

The suck and tuck —> Dean didn’t care what he looked like or his presentation, he cared about the person he was working next too.

Micah’s Fence

Dean the Builder - He built his bunker

Dean the Father

They wouldn’t be able to board games together because Dean had those slippery eyes and would cheat plus you add to it his table talk, made those games rather tough.

I can imagine him trying to rationalize his way out of it.

My mom shared a story with me in typical motherly fashion.

Michele you were younger and if you remember the Christmas Plays, we would spend hours practicing and then perform in front of the parents and then afterward we would all go down to the gym and have a little social deal where there’d be cookies and treats. The rules in years past were that you couldn’t be more than an arms length away from

Dean the Cheerleader

Rachels Senior Year of volleyball they had a pep rally and Dean came barrelling out into the gym pulling Mrs. Jung on a Red Wagon. That’s a sight I’m sure nobody saw coming.

He loved watching his kids play basketball. I loved watching games next to Dean, because Westby’s, like Rogers, are loud people.

This morning we celebrate Dean, a man who’s life is marked by ups and down, highs and lows.

Remember John 14 - Jesus is preparing a home for those who are found

Gospel Presentation

Dean was a worker, a builder, a husband, a Father, and a cheerleader but each of those things about Dean point us to one that is greater.

He points us to a better father, a better husband, a better cheerleader and a better builder

His life points us to a God who redeems

Romans 5:8 NASB95

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:35 NASB95

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:37–39 NASB95

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We serve a God who is faithful until the end.

We serve a God who faithfully came down to earth and entered into our mess, he entered into our sin when we had no way of escape and he bore our punishment and sin.

He died on a cross and rose again defeating the very thing that brings us here today.

Prayer for the Family

2 Corinthians 1:3–4 NLT

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

My prayer for you family is that during this time, you would discover the God who comforts. In the midst of your pain and frustration you would experience the God who brings rest and harmony.

My prayer is that you discover more deeply the God who entered into our death so he might bring us New Life.

Michele, Rachel, Michael and Lorrie, you have lost both your parents in a span of four years. You’ve experienced something no one should ever have to experience like this.

My last encouragement is to you four. Your parents live on through you.

Barb lives on through you guys, her tender heart, her love for the family and whats right. Her large overwhelming smile and kind hands all live on through you, her gentle spirit and firey faith lives on in you.

Dean lives on through you guys. His hard work ethic, his intellect and booming voice, his stubbornness. The builder, the father, the worker and the cheerleader will live on through you guys.

I see the engineer, the nurses, the mother, the athletes I see a son and daughters who have been very successful and will continue to be. You are, because of them.

Let us Pray