Pastor Watt's Sermon for Leona's Funeral , September 9th has been posted on his sermon website. You can read it by clicking here.
The text is

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23, ESV)

I can’t answer your questions, really. I can’t fill your loss with cleverly crafted words. I won’t even try. What I will do today is talk about Jesus. I’ll do that because He is the only one who makes sense out of suffering. He’s the only one that takes the sting out of death. It is Jesus’ death that makes sense out of our sitting together today around this casket. That’s because of all the things people will talk about today, all the talk about Leona isn’t likely to include the fact that she was indeed a sinful person. She was born that way, she lived that way and she died that way. I know it’s true because we are here today looking over her body. St. Paul calls this the “wages of sin.” And a part of our mourning today is the idea that someday we’ll all be in Leona’s place. We might have nothing else in common, we might not know anything at all about each other, but that’s one thing we do. We know our lives will all end in death, a deserved death for sin. This is something that our Lord, our Shepherd Jesus Christ, has done something about.

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