Ray Hammond Memorial

Welcome

On behalf of Faye, Jim, Jessica, Ben, Bruce, Arlene, thank you for spending this evening with them mourning the loss and at the same time celebrating - thanking the Lord for Ray Hammond’s life.

Loved his family, neighbors

Served his community and the poor

Loved fast cars

Ecclesiastes 3:9–13 ESV

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Prayer

How Great Thou Art

Eulogy

Jessica Anderson

Sharing

Faye

Jim

Ben

Others

It is Well

Reflections

The OT does not have a single word corresponding to our English word “eternity.” “from age to age,” “forever and ever.”

Time exists within eternity.

11 - Time is where the kingdom of God broke in. In time we experience a taste of eternity - the beauty of all things -

introduction of the kingdom of God - life as God intends - in Christ and stretching out into the unlimited future that we trust will reach time’s climax in his return.

The world is beautiful but our ability to truly apprehend it, enjoy it is limited.

Celebration and work are both good - a gift from God but we can’t fully appreciate them.

While the kingdom is eternal, time doesn’t last.

The quenching: He puts eternity in our hearts.

We have a longing not for heaven - a place - but to belong forever with the forever creator of the universe, the I am that I am.

Eternity in Ray’s Heart

I Can Only Imagine

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