Death & Dying

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for God will be with me to be my Stay!" When …

Preaching for the Poor

… it, all his life long, until, loaded with honours, he sank into his grave, with the good will of a multitude round about him, with an imperishable name …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… Who can save the man that is determined to venture life and soul upon a hazard that every onlooker sees must end in death? Sitting, sometimes, in your …

The Minister's Trumpet Blast and Church Member's Warning

Hosea 8:1

… I remember a sermon of William Dawson's on Death—the three heads of which were, "First, Death is following after us. Secondly, he will certainly catch us …

Reasons for Seeking God

Amos 5:8

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… He had managed to conceal his crime from the injured Uriah and then he had, with horrible craftiness, effected the death of the injured husband. Every circumstance in …

A Happy Christian

Isaiah 58:11

… How much more, if it is the expression of his inward perception, is it true that the world cannot fill it? The soul is like the grave, it …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… The Lord has opened the cage door and the bird, set at liberty, has gone caroling up to the skies! The body has been put into the grave …

Self-Humbling

2 Chronicles 34:27

… Him penniless in a borrowed grave?— "His honor and His breath Were taken both away, Joined with the wicked in His death, And made as vile as they …

The Vine of Israel

Psalm 80:14

… I know all that will be said about converted Jews, and I lament that there should have been grave occasion given in many instances. But, for my part …

'Feed My Sheep'

John 21:16

… If you feel towards your hearers that you could die to save their souls, you will then have fellowship with the death of your Lord. In grief over …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… David was assured of the death of Saul by the fact that the head of the king was brought to him by an Amalekite, whose crime he punished …

High Doctrine

… Do you see him with his life in his hand venturing even unto death? That man, oppressed with fever incidental to the land in which he has come …

Peter's Shortest Prayer

Matthew 14:30

… Lord, save me now, save me from condemnation, save me from the damning sin of unbelief! Lord, I know I am now upon the brink of death and …

The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Acts 10:44

… Then, again, the work of creation is said to be like the resurrection. “We are alive from the dead.” Now, can the dead in the grave raise themselves …

God's Glorious and Everlasting Name

Isaiah 63:12

… As I see Him bow His blessed head and hear Him utter His death-cry, "It is finished," I say that the Most High has gotten to Himself …

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:2

… long the weakest of us through him shall say “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” He is the hero of heaven. He …

A Marvelous Change

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

… He is on the very borders of the grave. He will be dead in a week unless something extraordinary happens to him. He has been to scores of …

The People's Christ

Psalm 89:19

… Justice required, that as by man came death, by man also should come the resurrection and the life. The law required, that as man was the sinner, man …

For or Against?

Matthew 28:4-6

… And it made them tremble as they saw the dead man, whose corpse they were guarding, suddenly emerge from the grave in life and resurrection beauty! Well might …

The Growth of Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… we cannot thank God that your faith is growing exceedingly! Indeed, there is grave cause to fear whether you possess the faith of God's elect if this …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… If we are His followers, come fair, come foul, come life, come death—none shall ever divide us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus …

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… And you, Sinner, have been guilty of the death of Jesus. Have you ever realized that it was your sins that fastened Him to the Cross of Calvary …

"Is God In the Camp?"

1 Samuel 4:7

… death" to you. Remember, it was a beautiful tomb in which the dead Christ was laid, but He left it, and there was nothing there but grave clothes …

All Are Guilty

Matthew 27:22

… Yet, for all that, virtue thus comely, thus embellished, thus familiar in the habitations of mankind, He was disliked, abhorred and hunted to the death! Sometimes men oppose …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… If thou wouldst strew thy path with thorns and put nettles in thy death pillow, then live in sin; but if thou wouldst dwell in the heavenly places …

The Great Change

Hosea 14:8

… death in sin. It is a change in you as great as was worked upon the Person of our Lord Jesus when, after lying dead in the grave …

A Visit to Christ's Hospital

Psalm 107:17-22

… grave! Perhaps, my Friend, you see no hope whatever. You are ready to say, "There cannot be any hope for me. I have made a covenant with death …

Unanswered Prayer

Psalm 22:2

… Till they confess sin, that sin rankles in them like venom—it boils their blood, it eats into their bones, it makes life worse than death, it makes …

Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ

John 5:44

… I did not want to think about sin, death, Heaven and Hell. I did not mind hearing a sermon, because that was the proper thing, and one could …

The Special Prayer Meeting

Acts 12:12

… The Brothers and Sisters would have prayed if Peter had been out of prison, but seeing that he was in prison, and likely to be put to death …

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Psalm 149:4-6

… There is enough to make the saints cry, "Glory!" to think that they have been redeemed from death and Hell, and that their feet have been taken out …

Manasseh

… He tells you that your death-warrant is sealed, that your doom is cast, and that you never can be saved. Tell him to his face that he …

Free Grace

Ezekiel 36:32

… No; from the cross comes the cry—“Not for your sakes do I this, O house of Israel.” After Christ’s death, there comes, in the next place …

Fathomless

Psalm 36:6

… For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men …

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… The wages of sin is death! Fly from this tyrant master! Immanuel, the bright Prince of Glory, is willing to enlist you into His army! Though there are …

The Cripple at Lystra

Acts 14:9-10

… He was crucified, and actually put to death. Though he was the Lord of life and glory, who only hath immortality, yet he bowed his head and gave …

Railings

Deuteronomy 22:8

… No man has a right to do anything which must inevitably lead to the death or to the injury of those by whom he is surrounded—he is …

Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine

Ephesians 5:18

… I believe their action to be founded on a very grave mistake. But to you Christian people, instruction comes in here, "Be not drunk with wine," with the …

The Whole Gospel In A Single Verse

1 Timothy 1:15

… With sinners He died! He made His grave with the wicked. He entered Paradise with a thief! And today, those who sing the new song in Heaven confess …