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Unbeliever / Non-Christian Funeral — Hub + Shorts Kit

For founder review before recording. Validated Tier-2 end-of-life lane (content-gap-opportunities.md, 2026-06-18): "preaching the funeral of a non-Christian / unbeliever" returns THIN video — heavy article supply (SBTS, TGC, 9Marks own it in text), no built pastor-prep tutorial. It is the third hard-funeral spoke after the funeral flagship and the graveside committal, and it binge-links straight into the End-of-Life Ministry playlist the channel is building into a moat. The graveside hub already gestures at this in one line (ch. 8: "commit the body honestly and entrust the soul to the mercy of God, without pronouncing a verdict you were not given to pronounce"). This hub is that single line, opened all the way up. Evergreen longform, ~13–15 min, slow and sober cadence.

Format note (dignity-first): the whole video lives on one knife-edge — honesty without false assurance and without condemnation. Every move has to refuse both ditches at once. The deceased's lack of faith is never a scare tactic, never a cautionary tale, never a prop. If a line uses grief or judgment to land harder, cut it. The pivot that makes this preachable at all: you are preaching to the living. The room is full of unconvinced people who came because someone died — preach them honest hope and the gospel, kindly. Gravity, never performance.

Recording: SermonWise Longform OBS profile, horizontal, warm office. Lower third: Pastor John | SermonWise.ai. Reference label updates per chapter. Have an open Bible on the desk turned to Luke 23 — it's the anchor and it's a permission ("yes, you can hold the hope of the thief on the cross out over a hard grave").

Title A/B (Test & Compare):

  • A: Preaching the Funeral of a Non-Christian: Honest Hope Without Lying About Where They Are
  • B: The Funeral of Someone Who Didn't Believe: What to Say (and What Not To)

Thumbnail: John at the desk, open Bible (Luke 23) in hand, restrained. Overlay: The hard funeral · honest hope, no false promises. No casket, no flames, no "where are they now?" cliché. Dignity is the brand.

1. Cold open (0:00)​

The hardest funeral you will ever preach is not the one where you knew and loved the person. It's the one where the family is hoping you'll say they're in heaven, and you honestly don't know if they believed.

So you stand there with two lies pulling at your sleeves. The first one is warm: "they're in a better place now, heaven gained an angel." The second one is cold: a verdict, pronounced over a casket, that you were never given to pronounce. And the family is watching your face to see which one you'll pick.

Here's the good news: you don't have to pick either. There's a third way, and the Bible gives it to you.

[STANDING STINGER] This week, at the desk: the funeral of someone who didn't believe — honest hope, without lying about where they are. Let's prep.

2. The trap on both sides (0:55)​

Let me be a colleague for a few minutes, not a channel. When the deceased had no faith you could confirm — or had a faith that, by everything you can see, wasn't there at all — two temptations show up, and they are equal and opposite.

The warm lie: false assurance. "They're in a better place." "Heaven gained an angel." "He's looking down on us, smiling." It feels kind. It is the path of least resistance, because the family wants it and your own heart wants to comfort them. But it is a lie you have no authority to tell, and the unconvinced people in that room — the ones who knew the deceased best — know it's a lie. The moment you pretend, you've told them the gospel is just something pastors say at funerals to make people feel better. You spend your credibility to buy a moment of comfort, and you have nothing left to preach hope with.

The cold lie: condemnation. The opposite ditch, and just as much a sin. Standing over a casket and announcing where the soul has gone — as if you'd been handed the docket and read the verdict. Using the dead person as a sermon illustration on hell, a cautionary tale to scare the living into the altar. It is cruel, it is presumptuous, and it is not yours to say. You were not in the room at the last breath. You do not know what passed between that soul and its Maker in the final second.

Refuse both. The warm lie and the cold lie are both you claiming knowledge you do not have. The honest path runs right between them.

3. The governing move — commit the body, entrust the soul (3:00)​

Here is the sentence to build the whole service on. You will say versions of it more than once, and you can say it with a clear conscience over anyone:

We commit the body of [Name] to the ground, and we entrust [his/her] soul into the hands of a God who is more merciful than we are, and who judges rightly.

Look at what that does and does not do. It commits the body — honestly, no pretending death isn't real. It entrusts the soul — to God, not to your assessment of them. And it names two things about that God you can say with total confidence at any grave: he is more merciful than we are, and he judges rightly. Those are not a dodge. They are the two truest things in the universe about this exact moment.

What it refuses to do is pronounce a verdict. You don't say "they're with the Lord." You don't say "they're lost." You hand the soul to the only One who knows, and you say out loud that he is kinder than you and fairer than you — both at once. That is not weakness or fence-sitting. It is the most theologically honest thing a preacher can say when he genuinely does not know. (This is the graveside committal line from the End-of-Life series, opened up — see the graveside hub, the "unbeliever or a faith you can't confirm" note.)

Memorize it. Commit the body honestly, entrust the soul to a God more merciful than us who judges rightly. That is your spine.

4. The anchor text — the thief on the cross (4:30)​

When you need a place to stand, stand at Luke 23. There are two men crucified beside Jesus, and they are the whole sermon.

One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him… But the other rebuked him… And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." (Luke 23:39–43)

This is the text God gave the church for exactly this funeral. Look at what's in it:

  • Mercy at the last breath. This man had a whole life of crime behind him and a few minutes of it left. No baptism, no church membership, no good works, no track record. One turn of the head, one sentence — "remember me" — and Jesus says today. Whatever you think you know about how long it takes to be saved, the thief blows it up. The door is open until the very last second, and you were not standing at it.
  • Hope you can hold out without claiming knowledge. Here is the pastoral gold. You cannot say the deceased was the second thief — you don't know. But you can say, truthfully, that the same Lord who took a dying criminal home with no résumé at all is the Lord into whose hands you are entrusting this soul. You're not promising the family their loved one is the thief. You're showing them the kind of Savior who saves thieves at the last second — and then you let them hope, without you having to certify the outcome.

The thief on the cross lets you preach real hope over a hard grave without lying. That's why it's the anchor.

5. The restraint — the secret things belong to the LORD (6:15)​

Hope needs a guardrail, or it slides back into the warm lie. The guardrail is a doctrine of holy restraint, and Scripture is unembarrassed about it.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever. (Deuteronomy 29:29)

There it is. Some things are revealed — and you preach those loudly: Christ crucified, mercy for sinners, an open tomb. Some things are secret — kept in God's own hand — and the eternal destiny of a particular soul whose last moment you did not witness is one of them. Preaching the secret things as if they were revealed is the sin under both ditches.

Two more verses to steady you:

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just? (Genesis 18:25)

That's Abraham, arguing with God over Sodom, and it lands as a confession: the Judge of all the earth will do what is just. You can rest the whole hard funeral on that. Whatever happened to this soul, it was handled by a Judge who cannot be unjust and cannot be unmerciful. You don't have to manage the outcome. He's got it, and he's better at it than you.

[God] will render to each one according to his works… on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. (Romans 2:6, 16)

God judges the secrets of men. Not the parts you saw — the secrets. Which is exactly why you don't get to render the verdict from the front of the room: you only ever saw the surface. Romans 2 doesn't make you cold; it makes you humble. The Judge sees what you can't, judges rightly what you can't, and is kinder than you'd be. Restraint, then, is not the absence of hope. It's the room hope grows in.

6. Honoring the person honestly — no fabrication, no whitewashing (8:00)​

Now the part that makes the family trust everything else you said: tell the truth about the person. Specifically and warmly, but the truth.

Don't fabricate a faith. Don't invent a deathbed prayer nobody heard. Don't manufacture "well, he was a spiritual man in his own way" out of nothing. The people who knew the deceased will hear the fiction instantly, and it will cost you the gospel. If there's a real faith story, tell it. If there isn't, don't build one.

Don't whitewash the life, either. You're not required to canonize anyone. But you don't have to. Almost every life has real, specific, true goods you can name with a clear conscience: he was a fierce friend, she made the best table in the county, he showed up at 2 a.m. when your car broke down, she loved her grandkids ferociously. Honor that — the actual, observable kindness and love and grit that God's common grace put in this person. It's true, it's specific, and it lets the family feel seen without you lying about eternity.

The move is: honor the life you can see honestly, and leave the soul you can't see with God. Name the real person, in real detail, with real affection. Then commit them with the line from chapter 3. You've told the truth about both the visible and the invisible — and the family can feel the difference between a pastor who's honest and one who's performing.

7. The pivot that makes this preachable — preach to the living (9:30)​

Here is the move that turns a dreaded funeral into a faithful one. Stop preaching about the dead. Start preaching to the living.

That room is full of people who do not believe. They came because someone died, not because they wanted a sermon — and they are, for one hour, more open to eternity than they will be for years. The funeral of an unbeliever is often a room full of unbelievers. This is not a problem to survive. It is, carefully and kindly, the reason God may have put you there.

So you don't use the casket as a prop, and you don't use the deceased as a cautionary tale — "let this be a warning to you." That's cruel and it backfires; people protect the dead and resent the preacher. Instead, you preach honest hope to them, in the second person, gently:

"Every one of us is going to stand where [Name] is. And the good news I have for you is not that you should try harder to be good. It's that Jesus took a dying man beside him — a man with nothing to offer but 'remember me' — and brought him home that same day. That door is still open. It's open to you, right now, in this room."

That's the gospel preached to the living, kindly, without one word of pressure on the deceased's account and without one false promise about where they are. You're not scaring anyone toward Jesus over a coffin. You're holding the door open and telling the truth about the One who answers when someone knocks.

8. Do's and Don'ts at a hard funeral (11:00)​

Don't pronounce a verdict you weren't given. Not warm, not cold. Neither "they're with the Lord now" nor anything that consigns them. You weren't handed the docket. Entrust; don't sentence.

Don't fabricate faith to comfort the family. A made-up deathbed conversion is a lie the room can smell, and it spends the credibility you need to preach real hope. No invented prayers, no manufactured spirituality.

Don't use the deceased as a cautionary tale. The casket is not a prop and the dead person is not your altar-call illustration. Preach to the living without making the dead the warning.

Do entrust the soul out loud — "into the hands of a God more merciful than we are, who judges rightly." Say it plainly so the family hears exactly where you've placed their loved one: with God, not with your opinion.

Do honor the real person, specifically and truthfully. Name the actual goods. Common grace is real grace; you can thank God for it without lying about eternity.

Do preach honest hope to the room. The thief on the cross, the open door, mercy at the last breath — second person, gentle, no pressure on the deceased's account.

9. Walk the path to Jesus (12:15)​

Don't jump to Jesus. Walk the path to Jesus — and at this funeral the path runs straight through Luke 23, so walk it.

You can stand at a hard grave and still speak hope, but not because you've decided the outcome. You can speak hope because of who was hanging in the middle of those three crosses. The thief didn't reach up to a distant verdict; the Judge came down and hung beside the condemned. The One who decides the secret things of every soul is the same One who took a dying criminal home with nothing but a whispered "remember me." That is not a God you have to talk into mercy. That is a God who climbed onto a cross to get to sinners at the last possible second.

So when you entrust this soul "into the hands of a God more merciful than we are, who judges rightly," you are not handing it to a stranger or a cold scale. You're handing it to the crucified Mercy who already proved, beside that thief, exactly how far he'll go and how late he'll come. The Judge of all the earth, who does what is just, is the Lamb who was slain. That's why you can let the family hope. The verdict isn't yours — and the One it belongs to bled to save thieves.

10. The hard funeral at a glance (13:30)​

A card to make your own. Big idea: commit the body honestly, entrust the soul to a God more merciful than us who judges rightly — refuse the warm lie and the cold one, and preach honest hope to the living.

  1. Refuse both ditches — no "better place" lie, no verdict from the front of the room.
  2. Commit + entrust — "the body to the ground, the soul into the hands of a God more merciful than we are, who judges rightly."
  3. Anchor in the thief — Luke 23: mercy at the last breath, hope held out without claiming knowledge.
  4. Stay restrained — the secret things belong to the LORD (Deut 29:29); the Judge does what is just (Gen 18:25).
  5. Honor honestly — name the real person, fabricate nothing, whitewash nothing.
  6. Preach to the living — the open door, the gospel, kindly, second person — never the casket as a prop.

11. CTA + signoff (14:30)​

A printable hard-funeral card — the commit-and-entrust line, the thief-on-the-cross frame, the restraint texts, and the "preach to the living" pivot — is in the free Funeral Prep Pack at sermonwise.ai/funeral-prep. Link below. Take what serves the family in front of you and leave the rest.

And if a prep companion would help you walk into the hardest week faster — without ever outsourcing the pastoral part, and without ever putting words in your mouth you can't stand behind — that's what SermonWise is for. The honest hope you preach over a hard grave stays yours.

Trust the text. Love your people. The sermon is yours.

Packaging​

  • Pinned comment: How do you handle the funeral when you don't know whether the person believed — what do you say, and what have you learned never to say? I read every comment this week.
  • Thumbnail discipline: restrained, no casket, no flames, no "where are they now" cliché.
  • Cross-link: set the Graveside / Committal hub and the Psalm 23 funeral flagship as related videos / on the end screen, and add this to the End-of-Life Ministry + Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks playlists. The funeral → the graveside → the hard funerals is the binge path.

Spoke Shorts​

Four spoke Shorts — word-for-word scripts, hooks, glance prompts, comment bait, and paste-ready pastor-search upload metadata. Cut from chapters 2 / 7 / 3+5 / 4 of this hub. Fresh vertical re-records, not crops of the hub. 20–40s each, hook stamped on frame 1 (on-screen text AND said first), no intro, no music, burned-in captions, one idea + one CTA each.

Dignity-first rules (non-negotiable): tender, never performative; never use the deceased's lack of faith as a scare tactic; if a line uses grief or judgment for reach, cut it. The verbal funnel CTA is always "the full card is on the channel," never "link below." Every "don't" lands on a preaching MOVE, never on a person or a tradition.

End-of-Life cluster: every Short's related-video → this hub (paste the URL after the hub publishes); set the Graveside / Committal hub on the end screen; add all four to the End-of-Life Ministry + Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks playlists.

Short ① — What to say when you don't know if they believed (from hub ch. 2 + 3)​

Script (~38s, word for word)​

The hardest funeral isn't the one where you loved the person. It's the one where you honestly don't know if they believed — and the family is waiting to hear you say they're in heaven.

You've got two lies pulling at you. The warm one: "they're in a better place." The cold one: a verdict you were never given to pronounce. Refuse both. They're both you claiming to know something you don't.

Here's the honest line you can say over anyone: "We commit the body to the ground, and we entrust the soul into the hands of a God more merciful than we are, who judges rightly." You're not pronouncing a verdict. You're handing it to the only One who can.

The full hard-funeral card is on the channel.

CTA type: funnel (channel). HOOK (verbatim, eyes up): "The hardest funeral: you don't know if they believed, and the family wants you to say they're in heaven." Glance prompts: hardest funeral → two lies (warm + cold) → refuse both → commit the body → entrust the soul → more merciful + judges rightly → not a verdict → CTA.

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  • Title: What to Say at a Funeral When You Don't Know If They Believed
  • Description opener: The hardest funeral is the one where you don't know if the person believed. Two lies pull at you — "they're in a better place" and a verdict you weren't given to pronounce. Refuse both. The honest line you can say over anyone: commit the body, entrust the soul to a God more merciful than we are, who judges rightly. (append the standing block + links from funeral-upload-optimization.md)
  • Hashtags: #FuneralSermon #PastoralCare #SermonPrep
  • Pinned comment: What do you say when you don't know whether the person believed?
  • Playlists: End-of-Life Ministry · Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks

Short ② — The funeral where you preach to the living (from hub ch. 7)​

Script (~36s, word for word)​

When you bury someone who didn't believe, that room is usually full of people who don't believe either. And here's the thing nobody tells you: that's not a problem to survive. It might be the reason God put you there.

So stop preaching about the dead. Start preaching to the living. Not "let this be a warning to you" — that's cruel, and it backfires. Instead, gently: "Every one of us will stand where they are. And the good news isn't try harder to be good. It's that Jesus took a dying man beside him, a man with nothing but 'remember me,' and brought him home that day. That door is still open. To you. Right now."

Honest hope, to the living — never the casket as a prop.

How do you preach to a room that doesn't believe? Tell me below.

CTA type: comment (community). HOOK (verbatim, eyes up): "At an unbeliever's funeral, the room is full of unbelievers. That's not a problem. It might be why you're there." Glance prompts: room full of unbelievers → not a problem → preach TO the living → not "a warning" → the open door → "remember me," brought home → honest hope, no prop → ASK below.

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  • Title: The Funeral Where You Preach to the Living
  • Description opener: When you bury someone who didn't believe, the room is usually full of people who don't believe either — and for one hour they're more open to eternity than they'll be for years. Stop preaching about the dead; preach honest hope to the living. Never "let this be a warning." The open door, kindly. (append the standing block + links)
  • Hashtags: #FuneralSermon #Preaching #Evangelism
  • Pinned comment: How do you preach to a room that doesn't believe?
  • Playlists: End-of-Life Ministry · Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks

Short ③ — Don't pronounce a verdict you weren't given (from hub ch. 3 + 5)​

Script (~35s, word for word)​

Standing over the casket of someone who didn't believe, don't do the thing both halves of you want to do. Don't pronounce a verdict.

Not the warm verdict — "they're with the Lord now" — when you don't know. And not the cold one, consigning them from the front of the room. You weren't in the room at the last breath. The Bible is blunt about this: "the secret things belong to the LORD our God." The eternal destiny of a soul whose final moment you didn't witness is one of the secret things.

So entrust; don't sentence. Hand the soul to a God more merciful than you and fairer than you — both at once. That's not fence-sitting. It's the most honest thing a preacher can say.

Have you ever felt that pressure to pronounce? Tell me below.

CTA type: comment (community). HOOK (verbatim, eyes up): "Over the casket, don't do the thing both halves of you want to do. Don't pronounce a verdict." Glance prompts: don't pronounce → not warm ("with the Lord") → not cold (consign) → secret things belong to the LORD (Deut 29:29) → entrust, don't sentence → more merciful + fairer, both → ASK below.

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  • Title: Don't Pronounce a Verdict You Weren't Given (a hard funeral)
  • Description opener: At the funeral of someone who didn't believe, don't pronounce a verdict — not the warm one ("they're with the Lord") when you don't know, and not the cold one from the front of the room. "The secret things belong to the LORD" (Deuteronomy 29:29). Entrust the soul; don't sentence it. (append the standing block + links)
  • Hashtags: #FuneralSermon #SermonPrep #PastoralCare
  • Pinned comment: Have you ever felt the pressure to pronounce a verdict at a funeral?
  • Playlists: End-of-Life Ministry · Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks

Short ④ — The thief on the cross at a hard funeral (from hub ch. 4)​

Script (~37s, word for word)​

When you have to preach a hard funeral and you don't know what the person believed, stand at Luke 23 — the thief on the cross.

Here's a man with a whole life of crime behind him and a few minutes left. No baptism, no good works, no track record. One turn of the head: "Jesus, remember me." And Jesus says, "Today you will be with me in Paradise."

Now watch what that lets you do. You can't say the person you're burying was that thief — you don't know. But you can say, truthfully, that the same Lord who took a dying criminal home with nothing but "remember me" is the Lord you're entrusting this soul to. You preach real hope, over a hard grave, without lying about where they are.

The door was open to the very last second. And you weren't standing at it.

The full hard-funeral card is on the channel.

CTA type: funnel (channel). HOOK (verbatim, eyes up): "Hard funeral, and you don't know what they believed? Stand at the thief on the cross." Glance prompts: stand at Luke 23 → a life of crime, minutes left → "remember me" → "today, Paradise" → you can't say they were the thief → but you can show the Savior who saves thieves → hope without lying → door open to the last second → CTA.

Upload metadata​

  • Title: The Thief on the Cross at a Hard Funeral
  • Description opener: When you have to preach a funeral and you don't know what the person believed, stand at Luke 23. The thief had a life of crime and minutes left — "Jesus, remember me" — and Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in Paradise." You can't say the deceased was the thief, but you can preach the Savior who saves thieves at the last breath. Real hope, without lying about where they are. (append the standing block + links)
  • Hashtags: #FuneralSermon #Preaching #SermonPrep
  • Pinned comment: Do you ever reach for the thief on the cross at a hard funeral?
  • Playlists: End-of-Life Ministry · Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks

Suggested publish schedule (alternating funnel / comment)​

DayShortCTA
1① Don't know if they believedChannel
2③ Don't pronounce a verdictComment
3② Preach to the livingComment
4④ The thief on the crossChannel

Reply to every comment in the 7-day window. Per Short after upload: related-video → this hub, end-screen → the Graveside / Committal hub, add to both playlists, pin the comment question.

Voice check (before release)​

  • Tender, never performative. If a line uses grief or judgment for reach, cut it.
  • One CTA per Short — channel line OR comment question, never both spoken.
  • No "link below" — always "on the channel."
  • Never the deceased's lack of faith as a scare tactic; never the casket as a prop.
  • Every "don't" lands on a preaching MOVE, never on a person or a tradition.
  • Every Scripture quoted accurately — Luke 23:39–43, Deuteronomy 29:29, Genesis 18:25, Romans 2 — no invented citations.

Upload metadata — the hub (pastor-search, paste-ready)​

Shared standing block + links block: identical to funeral-upload-optimization.md (reuse verbatim). Add the hub to playlists End-of-Life Ministry + Funerals, Weddings & Hard Weeks. (The four Shorts' titles, descriptions, hashtags, and pinned comments live with their scripts above.)

HUB — title A/B (Test & Compare):

  • A: Preaching the Funeral of a Non-Christian: Honest Hope Without Lying About Where They Are
  • B: The Funeral of Someone Who Didn't Believe: What to Say (and What Not To)

HUB — full description (paste-ready):

How to preach the funeral of a non-Christian — honest hope, without lying about where they are. The hardest funeral is the one where the family is hoping you'll say their loved one is in heaven, and you honestly don't know if they believed.

This walkthrough gives you the whole approach: how to refuse both lies (the warm "they're in a better place" and the cold verdict you were never given to pronounce), the one honest line you can say over anyone — commit the body, entrust the soul to a God more merciful than we are who judges rightly — the thief on the cross (Luke 23) as the text that lets you hold hope out without claiming knowledge, the restraint of "the secret things belong to the LORD" (Deuteronomy 29:29), how to honor the real person without fabricating faith or whitewashing the life, and the pivot that makes it preachable: you are preaching to the living.

Free printable hard-funeral card (the commit-and-entrust line, the thief-on-the-cross frame, the restraint texts, and the preach-to-the-living pivot): https://sermonwise.ai/funeral-prep

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Chapters (estimated — replace with real timestamps after recording)
0:00 The hardest funeral you'll preach
0:55 The trap on both sides: false assurance and condemnation
3:00 The governing move: commit the body, entrust the soul
4:30 The anchor: the thief on the cross (Luke 23)
6:15 The restraint: the secret things belong to the LORD
8:00 Honoring the person honestly — no fabrication, no whitewashing
9:30 The pivot: preach to the living
11:00 Do's and don'ts at a hard funeral
12:15 Why you can still preach hope (Walk the path to Jesus)
13:30 The hard funeral at a glance
14:30 A free hard-funeral card + close

#FuneralSermon #Preaching #SermonPrep

HUB — chapters above are ESTIMATES — replace with the REAL timestamps extracted from the recorded file after recording (the ~7s stinger after the cold open will shift everything; pull true marks before publishing). Pinned comment: How do you handle the funeral when you don't know whether the person believed — what do you say, and what have you learned never to say? I read every comment this week.

Studio checklist​

Hub: clickable links in the description (funeral-prep first) · add chapters (replace estimates with real timestamps) · Test & Compare on the title · pin the comment · end-screen + related-video cross-link to the Graveside / Committal hub AND the Psalm 23 funeral flagship so the funeral audience binges down the end-of-life path · add to both playlists. Confirm Advanced Features is approved so the Shorts' related-video links to this hub actually work. Per-Short Studio steps: related-video → this hub, end-screen → Graveside hub, both playlists, pin the comment.