Death & Dying

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… Again, blessedness is that which takes away the sting of death. Now Christ, even when he was dying, was “God over all, blessed for ever.” All that Death …

Strangers and Sojourners

Psalm 39:12

… The other one was #2237, Volume 38—GRATITUDE FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE GRAVE.] Instead of dreading Death, and bidding him depart from us, we might rather beckon him …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… Yes, he is regenerate because he was baptized in infancy; regenerate, while he mixes his strychnine; regenerate while he administers his poison slowly, that he may cause death …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… All our hopes of life beyond the grave center in Him. Apart from Him, there would be nothing for us but the blackness of darkness forever! So it …

Reigning Grace

Romans 5:21

… in death and that an eternal death—a death from which there shall be no resurrection—a death which casts souls into an eternal grave—a grave of …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… The enemy was not content with felling his life to the ground—he would lay him lower still, even in the grave; and lower than that, if possible …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… of the fear of death. That our bodies, which are pampered by pride and nourished by indulgence, should be consigned to the silent grave, and become even the …

Discipline in Christ's Army

Joshua 1:11

… with which we hope to enter through the gates of death into eternal Glory and blessedness— "Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… There is a notable difference between the dying scene of the triumphant Believer as he enters into rest, and the first weeping repentance of a Saul of Tarsus …

Bright Prospects for Young Believers

Malachi 4:2

… Tortured with disease, they have been lying in the darkness and gloom of death. Perhaps fears have come in and physical infirmity has been the platform upon which …

A Faithful Friend

Proverbs 18:24

… for his love is “strong as death and mightier than the grave.” Good old Bishop Beveridge, I think it was, when dying, did not know his best friends …

Some Reminiscences of Foreign Travel

… We had not gone very far before a baggage-mule lost its footing, and glissaded down the slope,—to its certain death, we thought; but, just before reaching …

Heavenly Rest

Hebrews 4:9

… But the full fruition and rich enjoyment of it remains in the future and eternal state of the beatified on the other side the stream of death. Of …

A Merry Christmas

Job 1:4

… Sinner! Let no joy cross your face till death and you are friends. Saint! Let no joy be in your heart either, till you can say, "Welcome, Death …

A Safe Prospective

Daniel 8:19

… The very day and hour of death are settled. And the means by which we shall receive the death-shock—whether we shall drop dead in the street …

Holy Song From Happy Saints

Isaiah 5:1

… The swan is said to sing her dying song—a myth, I doubt not, but the Christian is God's swan, and he sings sweetest at the last …

The Great Reservoir

Proverbs 4:23

… You have this day condemned me to death. Now, I freely admit that I am a poor sinner, but positively deny that I am a heretic, because from …

The Enemies of the Cross of Christ

Philippians 3:18

… the heart? It is like the pageantry which surrounds the grave—the pomp, the pall, the hearse—death decently covered up! May God, of His infinite mercy, save …

The Fatherhood of God

Matthew 6:9

… sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” He knows then how deep and pure is the love that death can never sever, and the terrors …

Life, and the Path to It

Psalm 16:11

… You remember that His dying words were, "Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit." "And having said this, He gave up the ghost." He spoke with the …

The Sinner's Friend

Matthew 11:19

… It was a death in which the second death was comprehended; a bleeding in which the very veins of God were emptied. The God-man divinely suffered. I …

The Seven Sneezes

2 Kings 4:35

… O for more Elishas! For then we should see more sinners raised from their death in sin! The first clear evidence that the child was restored to life …

Love Joying In Love

Solomon 5:1

… It is a wonderful thought that the Lord Jesus Christ has joy in us! We cost Him anguish, even unto death, and now He finds a reward in …

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… Your grave is very close—within a few days you may be carried there. Fly at once to Him who bids you trust Him! God help you to …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… By some marvelous godsend, death has been turned aside just as it seemed, with a straight course, to be posting toward us. When fierce diseases have been waiting …

Words Of Expostulation

Jeremiah 2:18

… sin? Surely you would be speechless as the dumb, and silent as the grave! Your tears might make confession; your shudders should deepen your guilt; but your lips …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… They have a pleasure that can make their dying pillow soft! And they have riches they can take with them through the last grim river—can pass its …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… As the soldier goes at the captain's bidding, so does God say to Death, "Go," and he goes, or "Come," and he comes. Thus is it in …

The Believer A New Creature

2 Corinthians 5:17

… Even Lazarus, who has been dead and is supposed through four days of burial to have begun to stink, when he is called from the grave by the …

Meditation on God

Psalm 104:34

… It may be very well for men with gray heads who need something to comfort and solace them as they descend the hill of life into the grave …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… verse of a hymn which I heard from a dying Christian who had become blind just before his death—and which has always since been invested in my …

Psalm 28

Psalm 28

… Cardinal Beaton condemned George Wishart to death, and presently died a violent death himself. He was murdered in bed, and his body was laid out in the same …

The Oil and the Vessels

2 Kings 4:6

… O for a heart insatiable for Christ, a soul more greedy than the grave itself which is never satisfied! Then would rivers of the heavenly oil flow in …

Cheering Congratulation

Psalm 32:1

… Let not Satan persuade you that you have sinned a sin which is unto death/No, come to the Cross of Christ! The blood of Jesus was real …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… brought into the dust of death by a faintness of mind which renders life a difficulty. We come to look upon the grave as a refuge and a …

Ho! Ho!

Isaiah 55:1

… If you have brought yourself down to the gates of the grave by your sin. If you are suffering in the body the results of your iniquities. If …

Opening Services

… Now, that night, he understood they intended to bury the rattlesnake, tail and all, and over that grave no one might write "Resurgam." He had come, however, personally …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… Bathsheba, even to the last, he went with broken bones sorrowing to his grave. It was one long string of afflictions: take heed it be not so with …

Preach, Preach, Preach Everywhere!

Mark 16:15

… Nights of darkness, years of oppression have lasted long and the minds of men have been sitting in the valley of the shadow of death. But, as surely …

'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'

2 Chronicles 33:12

… It was no wonder that Adonijah disturbed the dying moments of David when we read that, "his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why …