Death & Dying

A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter

James 1:12

… You would hardly like to sleep in a bed concerning which you were not sure that it might not be damp and cause your death. One would not …

"Out of Darkness into Light"

Isaiah 49:9

… To be a prisoner for life must be a horrible thing—to be immured in a dungeon for all one's days must be almost worse than death …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… It becomes, therefore, a very mournful reflection that there should be men and women lingering upon the brink of the grave who are helping others to linger— their …

Jesus!

Matthew 1:21

… There is no other way of salvation but by His vicarious sufferings and death! Then He saves them by bearing the penalty due to their sin. Where the …

Wheat in the Barn

Matthew 13:30

… With grave, sweet melodies let us sing around their tombs. Let us feel that, surely, the bitterness of death is passed. When we remember their glory, we may …

The Plumb Line

Amos 7:7

… For all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… poverty—we find eternal life in His death, a Heaven in His Cross—we ascend to Heaven through His grave! I want you, dear Friends, to keep this …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… By its rich virtue, its real value, its vital merit, it puts our sins for ever to death and lays our fears for ever to rest. Oh, how …

Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father

John 17:18

… He pressed through shame and through death to accomplish our redemption. In these days we shall not do much unless we have a desperate determination to persevere in …

The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard

2 Peter 2:9

… I will ease Me of My adversaries." Then He sends the "reaper, whose name is Death." I think that I meet him now, swinging his sharp sickle, and …

Portraits Of Christ

Romans 8:29

… It cries, "Away with Him, away with Him! It is not fit that He should live." It awards Him a slave's death—He must not only die …

Mongrel Religion

2 Kings 17:41

… The man has been ill, he has seen the brink of the grave; he has promised and vowed to attend to good things, in the hope that God …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… Of course there was an inquest ; — verdict, accidental death ; — on the whole, the only safe conclusion to arrive at. A fund was raised for the sufferers, and all …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… that "Plagues and death around us fly," but "Till he please we cannot die;" that we may walk among a thousand graves, but no grave shall open its …

Satan Considering the Saints

Job 1:8

… Brethren, let us commit ourselves in faith to the care and keeping of God—come poverty, come sickness, come death, we will in all things through Jesus Christ …

Soul Saving Our One Business

1 Corinthians 9:22

… He went to the Cross, to the grave, to "save some." This was the great objective of His life, to lay down His life for His sheep. He …

Lingerers Hastened

Genesis 19:16

… When we have affectionately and plainly told the sinner that the wages of his sin will be death and that woe will come upon him because of his …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… As I was buried with Him in Baptism unto death, so with Him I trust I have had conformity unto His death." When any pang from slander or …

The Two Debtors

Luke 7:41

… and deed from the moment of your birth to the hour of your death! One crack in the crystal vase of perfection spoils it—and you all know …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… Some of her nominal children she loses by spiritual death, but the reason of this is because they are not really her children at all. They are those …

A Sermon For The Week Of Prayer

Colossians 4:2

… as though it were clods of mold! Surely the boat will find her grave and be buried in the sheet of foam—but no—she comes out of …

Grieve Not the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… That loving, tender Spirit who, of His own accord, has taken upon Himself to quicken us from our death in sin and to be the Educator of the …

Song for the Free—Hope for the Bound

Psalm 107:14-16

… is a fitting epitaph to be placed over the grave of self-righteousness! This also is the death-knell of priestcraft, birthright membership and sacra-mentarianism. The conscience …

A Warning to Believers

Colossians 2:18

… Even though conscience should upbraid you and you should have many grave reasons for doubt, as you imagine, yet if you believe in Jesus, stand to it—"There …

Bit and Bridle—How To Escape Them

Psalm 32:8

… This may stand as an introduction, for now I need to conduct you further into this grave business of the saved man. You are pardoned, my Friend, you …

Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements

Matthew 15:23

… She was sometimes driven to the greatest straits and to a sadness which seemed as if it would bring her to a premature grave. She resolved to pray …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… Whatever garments he may put on, or at whatever tables he may feast, he is still unhappy because he has the arrows of death sticking in him! Such …

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… be your last moment! Who knows how close you may be to your grave even while you are sitting in your pew? You saw one friend faint, just …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… mourn is the death of friends." Yes. That calamity is a daily sorrow to men who are getting into years. A new-made grave is with us every …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… have gone to the grave yet seven times, till you have feared that your last earthly friend would be borne away by unpitying death, you have proved that …

Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble

Lamentations 3:56

… the most sad condition—He said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death"—yet He did not, for that reason say, "I cannot pray" but, on the …

The Final Separation

Matthew 25:32

… recorded in the book which contains the condemning evidence which will seal the death warrants of unbelievers. Listen to me! There are in this world, nowhere, any other …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… The man is ultimately restored to the ranks, but he will carry to his grave the scars of the wounds that he has suffered. It would have been …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?" The law? That is satisfied and it …

The Birth Of Christ

Isaiah 7:14

… integrity and never let it go! And from His birth down to His death He knew no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Oh, marvelous sight …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… When He went away, He took with Him the scars of one who died a felon's death—and He will come again with them, but the nail …

Faith Without Sight

John 20:29

… If you wish to lead a happy life and to die a triumphant death. If you would have a glorious time between death and the coming of Christ …

Peace By Believing

Romans 5:1

… is at peace with God? Life?—God provides for it. Death?—Christ has destroyed it. The grave?—Christ has rolled away the stone and broken the seal. Affliction …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… By His death, on Calvary's Cross, Christ ensured that all those for whom He died shall live with Him in His Kingdom as surely as He, Himself …

The Unknown Ways of Love

John 13:7

… us all was by far the greater, for this involved His death, His making His grave with the wicked and His being numbered with the transgressors! The expression …