At funerals, we’re told by some pastors, “They’re in heaven now. They’re looking down on us. They’re in a better place.” Culture echoes it so often that few of us ever stop to ask whether Jesus actually taught it. But when Lazarus died, Jesus described death in a way that sounds strikingly different from what many of us have heard all our lives. Join host Merrick Brown in this episode as he puts popular belief beside the words of Christ and asks a haunting question: If what comforts us is not what Jesus taught, are we willing to know the truth?
