This week my mind was drawn to the death of Len Hoppe, former elder and beloved friend of many people in our congregation. He died early in 1996 just short of his 43rd birthday. No event in the last eight years has shaken our church like his death. But I remember looking in the Chi...
In here you'll find things other churches are scared to death to admit or even mention. Did the Saints really rise from the dead? Most scholars want to say it shouldn't be in Scripture. The author of this book of the Bible just happens to be a Jew, and he's writing to Jews. So...
Death is the grand leveller. 凡人都要死,大家都一样。 Death meets us everywhere. 死亡到处和我门相遇。 Death pays all debts. 人死百债了。 Death when it comes will have no denial. 死亡来临时,无可抗拒之。 Deeds, no words. 不要光说不练。 Debt is better than death. 负债总比死亡强。 De...
"When we were yet without strength" — to do the true work of life, to prepare for death, to gain acceptance with God — "in due time Christ died for the ungodly." II. THE MANNA COMES AS A MIRACULOUS INTERPOSITION. 1. Undeserved. 2. Unsought. III. THE MANNA CAME AS A UNIVERSAL ...
For more on what to say (and what NOT to say) to the newly bereaved heading into the new year, seeDon’t Say “Happy New Year” after a Death. ___ Within hours of posting this the day after Carrie Fisher’s death, I learned that her mother, Debbie Reynolds, also died. I’ve ...
Jesus Christ died on the cross to cleanse away all sins. No more tears, no more dying, death is swallowed up in Christ's resurrection. Bible sermon on Old Testament prophecy of Jesus' victory over death, and our eternal assurance of salvation.
24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. 25 For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue ...
3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will...
My husband died nearly seven years ago. I seldom cry over his death now — after years — but sometimes it still gets to me. Times like the approach of my wedding anniversary. Times when I’m briefly stirred back inside the newly bereaved, cry-without-warning emotions of the first year ...
“Repent and turn from all your rebellious acts, so they will not become a sinful stumbling block to you. … 32 “For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. “So repent and live! [Eze 33:11 CSB] 11 Tell them, ‘As I live — this ...