Should Protestants reframe purgatory as final sanctification?

Last night, over a communal dinner, the conversation turned to John 17, and then to the status of Judas Iscariot, and then to the notion of โ€œperditionโ€ (Jn 17:12), which may refer to โ€œdestruction, ruin, or ultimate loss.โ€ From there, we skirted around the theology of predestination and Judasโ€™s assumed eternal fate, and then on …

What happens when I die?

A sermon by Rod Benson There are two certainties in life: birth and death. We celebrate birth, and while we also celebrate death through carefully crafted eulogies and respectful rituals, a death is usually an occasion for sadness and sympathy, reflection, condolences and hushed voices. Death is inevitable and unavoidable, but it is not a …