Death & Dying

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… the misery that Job felt when he said, "My soul chooses strangling and death rather than my life." Yet I am saved by the Sovereign Grace of God …

Zion's Prosperity

Psalm 102:13

… God forbid we should preach for even a month or a week without winning souls! We think it would be worse than death to live a year and …

Under Arrest

Galatians 3:23

… And I heard—and oh, what music it was that the Son of God had taken upon Himself our human nature and had, by His life and death …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… For this we must stand up and fight to the death. The word that cometh out of Christ’s mouth is the daily manna of our heavenly life …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… Lead me, I pray You, where You will—yes, even through Death's dark valley, but do not lead me into temptation, lest I fall and dishonor You …

A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing

2 Corinthians 12:11

… man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" was not once or twice his cry, but he often felt the law of …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… were thus in the best condition for flight, or suffering, or service, or death. It was not a time in which they could settle down and engage in …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… ruler of his age or of any other age—and his honor after death is, to this day, infinitely beyond that of all the Pharaohs rolled into one …

Letters concerning Settlement in London

… Blessed is the man who has the God of Jacob for his Helper; he need not fear either want, or pain, or death. The more you can realize …

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… For him it must either be death for having disappointed popular expectation, or else he must yield to the wishes of the people, and be made a king …

'Here I Am!'

1 Samuel 3:4

… He has spoken through that beloved friend with whom you took sweet counsel, who was suddenly smitten with a death sickness and taken away from you. It might …

A Sunday School Sermon

Isaiah 40:11

… Pit, He must bear the penalty due to Justice and suffer even unto death. He sees the purchase of His agonies in every youthful Believer. For him the …

A Miniature Portrait Of Joseph

Genesis 39:2

… Her house is the way to Hell, going down to the chambers of death." Slavery, itself, was a small calamity compared with that which would have happened to …

The Hope Laid Up In Heaven

Colossians 1:5

… If it lies in an estate, the title-deeds may be questioned; if it lies in any human creature, death may bereave you. If it lies in yourself …

Farm Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

… Himself for us—that is the price He paid! What a ransom! The death of Jesus has sometimes almost seemed too high a price to pay for such …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… Self-complacency is the death of repentance. Our Lord’s next remedy is gracious counsel. He says, ‘I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… conclusion by the Rule of Three—"Who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." Because …

Turning Back in the Day of Battle

Psalm 78:9

… with lions? Have we not gone through the Valley of the Shadow of Death? Have we not had a conflict with Apollyon himself foot to foot, and shall …

Before Sermon, At Sermon and After Sermon

James 1:21

… He who wills to be deceived can feign an acquittal out of a sentence of death! Many think it is all right with them, when it is all …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… Ungodly churches are not the candles of the Lord! If men find pleasure in unrighteousness, they exert an influence baneful as the shadow of death. How can the …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… O sirs, if you be but a little aroused now by an earnest sermon or a sudden death, how wretched you feel and how desperately you plunge into …

The Honored Servant

Proverbs 27:18

… We have entered His employ and we are bound to Him—and "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… The fibres of the plant become rigid; they cease their office; down below there has been a failure of the vital power which is the precursor of death …

Supposing Him to be the Gardener

John 20:15

… How came it to be—here an oasis of life in a desert of death? how came faith in the midst of unbelief, and hope where all is …

The Hiding of Moses by Faith

Hebrews 11:23

… All his edicts shall not drive me to expose him to death." She looked for a deliverer and expected him to come—this was faith! O dear Friends …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… depend upon it, human nature never originated it! Can sin desire holiness, or death pant for life? Holy desires are plants which are by no means native to …

Holiness, The Law of God's House

Ezekiel 43:12

… in all her members, for where God comes near to man, lethargy and death soon fly away. Where the sacred Presence abides, sickness of soul disappears! Jehovah-Rophi …

Small Rain for Tender Herbs

Deuteronomy 32:2

… abundant in mercy, tenderness and long-suffering! And He delights not in the death of any, but that they should turn unto Him and live! Therefore let us …

Spiritual Glean1ng

Ruth 2:15

… and make so many marches through the very Valley of the Shadow of Death?" What will you do? Why, you will do as you have done! Trust in …

The Cause And Cure Of Weariness In Sunday School Teachers

Galatians 6:9

… Sowing, sowing, ever sowing till the hand is palsied in death and the seed basket is carried on another arm! Doing good by sowing the seed is your …

From The Dunghill To The Throne

Psalm 113:7

… in the Lord Jesus whose blood cleanses us from all sin! By the death of Jesus I beseech you trust in the atoning sacrifice of Calvary and you …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… We must live his life and be ready to die his death, if need be. O brothers, sisters, if we do this and follow Jesus, putting our feet …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… We ought to bestir ourselves lest we sleep ourselves into death. There are certain conditions of the human frame in which sleep becomes absolutely deadly—the poor patient …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… taken their part against all their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death; has engaged with them and conquered them: he is the Captain of their salvation …

Varying Voices–Pro and Con

… He is painting some scene of death-bed remorse, or of timely repentance ; some Magdalene's forgiveness, or some prodigal's return. His colours are taken from the …

Later Literary Works

… Hear how the death-fiends howl among the cordage; how every timber starts as the waves beat like battering-rams upon the vessel! God help you, poor drenched …

Psalm 113

Psalm 113

… Lord alone who brings his people up from the dust of sorrow and death. When no hand but his can help he interposes, and the work is done …

Individuality, and Its Opposite

… it is not,) let us continue delivering our message under all circumstances till death shall silence us. We should consider, in the fourth place,  our personal adaptation,  desiring …

Pure Fun

… trade designation of a small printing-office where cheap booklets, such as The Death of Cock Robin, are issued.) It was a theme for perennial merriment, and no …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… While we are on earth, we are subject to a threefold "darkness" ; the darkness of error, the darkness of sorrow, and the darkness of death. To dispel these …