Death & Dying

Spiritual Revival—the Need of the Church

Habakkuk 3:2

… Their venerated dust rests in the grave. Where are their successors? Ask where and echo shall reply, "Where?" God has not yet raised them up, or, if He …

Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust

Acts 24:15

… If he has seen old companions, one by one, taken to the grave—and he still trifles away his time, lingering upon the brink of fate—what folly …

Christ Asleep in the Vessel

Mark 4:38

… beloved relative who has lived a most exemplary life, or when a painful death happens to an unusually gracious man, we must not judge the Lord unkindly, as …

The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints

Revelation 5:10

… There was a stipulation in that covenant that the Mediator should become incarnate should live a suffering life, and at last endure a death of ignominy; and it …

Another And A Nobler Exhibition

Ephesians 3:10

… Death is slain by the death of the Man who was crucified. Sin is put away by the great sin offering, who "bore our sins in His own …

'Brief Life Is Here Our Portion'

Psalm 39:4

… The best way to deal with it is to die daily, to go down to Jordan's brink and bathe every morning in that death stream, till death …

Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalm 42:7

… spending on earth a life of service and of condescension! Behold Him dying a death of ignominy and pain! The Atonement of Christ is such a Red Sea …

India’s Ills and England’s Sorrows

Jeremiah 9:1

… There by the lonely brook, where the maiden cast away her life, the willow weeps for ever; and there in the grave yard where men lie slumbering till …

Quiet Musing!

Psalm 39:3

… You will do well, Christian, to meditate much upon death. What? Man, did I see you turn away? A Christian afraid of death? No, verily, for death is …

To Souls In Agony

Psalm 116:3

… What are the sorrows of death? One of the sorrows of a sinner's death is the retrospect. The dying sinner looks back and sees nothing in his …

Assured Security In Christ

2 Timothy 1:12

… Do not, I pray, look too much at the pains, groans, and dying strife. Look rather to that kind Friend, who, having endured the agonies of death before …

“Through Much Tribulation”

… Then, indeed, did I seem as if I should go down to the pit, and I had perpetually to endure the tortures of the never-dying worm of …

"Forever With The Lord"

1 Thessalonians 4:17

… This makes dying such wonderful work to the people of God, for then, especially, is Jesus seen to be near! By death they escape from death—and from …

Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified

Luke 23:48

… was worshipped of angels who is now dying for the sons of men! Sit down and watch the death of Death's Destroyer! I shall ask you first …

Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'

Isaiah 54:9

… terrible deluge as through the waters of death, itself, as though it were a coffin, floating over the world's grave—from a dead world into a new …

What We Have, and Are to Have

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… Regard His perfect life and His redeeming death. Behold Him in His Resurrection, His triumphant Ascension and His perpetual intercession. And look forward to His promised return from …

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… thy grave with the delusion in thy brain that all is right with thee; but remember, though like a sheep thou art laid in thy grave, Death will …

Confession and Absolution

Luke 18:13

… You say, “Well, that is a good prayer, certainly, for a man who is dying. When a poor fellow has the cholera, and sees black death staring him …

Why Should I Weep?

Luke 23:27-31

… Now, if you have tears for Jesus dying, reserve them for those to whom death is but the beginning of evils! If you have griefs for Him to …

The Eternal Day

Isaiah 60:20

… And till we shall see a dying Christ, till He who has Immortality shall expire, till Christ, the Son of God, very God of very God, shall cease …

Love to Christ

… wear it as your jewel in heaven, and set it as a seal upon your hand; for His love is “strong as death, and mightier than the grave.”

A Door Opened In Heaven

Revelation 4:1

… That holy Thing slumbered in the grave, where it could not see corruption. It was not taken up into the excellent Glory, but remained here for 40 days …

Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt

Luke 23:11

… for the death agony of the Lord Jesus. You owe the very opportunity of hearing the Gospel and the opportunity of accepting it to His dying love. Oh …

A Bold Challenge Justified

Romans 8:34

… Christ's death paid the debt that His people owed to Divine Justice—and when He came out of the prison of death in which He had been …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… But yet, as Jesus rose again, so shall His true Church and cause rise again, though they are laid in the grave and the stone is sealed, and …

Things to Be Remembered

… And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He has done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… There are no acts of pardon passed In the cold grave to which we hasten, But darkness, death, and long despair Reign in eternal silence there." Therefore, "return …

Harvest Men Needed

Matthew 9:37

… The world is dying! The grave is filling! Hell is boasting and yet you have the Gospel! Can it be that you do not care to win souls …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… grave!— Augustus F. Tholuck. Verse 7. For we are consumed by thine anger. This is a point disputed by philosophers. They seek for the cause of death, since …

Man's Ruin and God's Remedy

Numbers 21:8

… And so my tongue fangs to resound Christ alone, and give forth no other strain, but Christ and his cross; Christ uplifted, the salvation of a dying world …

A Home Question

… There must be a living faith in a dying Savior, there must be the Spirit of God indwelling in the soul or else you can never mount to …

The Saint and the Spirit

John 14:17

… Our resurrection from the death of sin is worked in us by the Holy Spirit. There is no rising out of the grave of sin unless the voice …

Effects Of Sound Doctrine

Matthew 24:24

… If an Arminian had to go through half the difficulties and trials, he would have been in his grave 10 years before; he would have had no stamina …

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… There are the grave clothes, but He is not there! Where is He? Why, He has come forth in the full glory of Resurrection and is saying to …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… You have been up in the sick-chamber, and you have heard the dying saint sing— "I will love You in life, I will love You in death …

Introduction

… the death of a man is a kind of new birth to him; when he himself is gone physically, he spiritually survives, and from his grave there shoots …

The Mysteries of the Brazen Serpent

John 3:14

… The death of the late eminent preacher, Dr. Beaumont, who died in his pulpit, was a death which all of us might envy; whose released spirit, whilst the …

Thorns and Thistles

Genesis 3:18

… Had the sentence been carried out to the fullest, a yawning grave would have opened at his feet and there would have been no more of Adam—but …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… Yon sun has shone on my cradle, it will beam on my death-bed, and cast a gleam into my grave. So doth God, the Beneficent, gild our …

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… to a dying man, leper though he is—to the living, he must not approach—but to the dying he cannot bring a new death. So he draws …