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Death & Dying
Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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The Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:34
… it was represented with a burning sky above it, its feet sticking in the mire, surrounded by hundreds of skeletons, and there dying a doleful and miserable death …
DEVOTIONALJune 11 — NO CAUSE TO BLUSH
Isa. 54:4
… None will blame the martyrs for dying for Him. When the enemies of Christ are clothed with everlasting contempt, the lovers of Jesus shall find themselves honored by …
DEVOTIONALJune 22 — HE WITH US; WE WITH HIM
Prov. 10:27
… Let us not be overcome with sudden expectation of death the moment we have a finger-ache, but let us rather expect that we may have to work …
DEVOTIONALDec. 3 — PEACE WHATEVER EXPOSURE
Ezek. 34:25
… 34:25 It is the height of grace that Jehovah should be in covenant with man, a feeble, sinful and dying creature. Yet the Lord has solemnly entered …
DEVOTIONALJuly 11 — NEVER SEPARATED FROM GOD
John 11:26
… Our soul may be separated from our body, and this is death of a kind; but our soul shall never be separated from God, which is the true …
DEVOTIONALDec. 14 — NOTHING OLD
Rev. 21:5
… What a joy to belong to a kingdom in which everything is being made new by the power of its King! We are not dying out: we are …
SERMON • SERMON 9Spiritual Liberty
2 Corinthians 3:17
… You sit down calmly and think of dying. What is death ? It is a low porch through which you stoop to enter heaven. What is life ? It is …
DEVOTIONALSept. 12 — WHAT OF MY HOUSE?
Acts 16:31
… This would suit me if I were dying, and it is all that I need while I am living. I look away from self, and sin, and all …
COMMENTARYPsalm 18
Psalm 18
… Verse 4. "The sorrows of death compassed me." Death like a cruel conqueror seemed to twist round about him the cords of pain. He was environed and hemmed …
COMMENTARYPsalm 145
Psalm 145
… Man's body as it left the Maker's hand was neither framed for disease, decay, nor death, neither was the purpose of it discomfort and anguish; far …
DEVOTIONALDec. 20 — MEN AS MEN; GOD AS GOD
Isa. 51:12
… It is only the fury of a dying creature; fury which will end as soon as the breath is gone from the nostril. Why, then, should we stand …
SERMON • SERMON 3311The Water and the Blood
John 19:34
… This lance wound was THE SEAL OF DEATH UPON OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. His enemies were so determined to put Him to death that they dragged His life …
SERMON • SERMON 2283Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin
Hebrews 9:26
… He presented Himself to the death on the Cross. He died and by that dying He has put away sin. V. That brings me to my closing point …
SERMON • SERMON 2777The Queen of Sheba, a Sign
Matthew 12:42
… you! Then, as to her death, was there not something almost Divine about that patient waiting for her Lord and that dying smile, and that last triumphant hymn …
SERMON • SERMON 3529More Room for More People
Luke 14:22
… Go out quickly! Men are dying. There is no time for us to be quibbling among ourselves! It behooves us to show our zeal rather than waste our …
SERMON • SERMON 3108The House of Mourning and The House of Feasting
Ecclesiastes 7:2
… Our dying fiends are pioneers to smooth Our rugged pass to death—to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence nature throws 'Cross our obstructed way—and thus …
SERMON • SERMON 2905The Father and the Son
1 John 1:3
… So here you are, first of all, in communication with the Father and the Son and, secondly, reconciled to God by the death of His Son—healed of …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 23
1Jn 1:7
… the text—not “ shall cleanse.” There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 11
2Th 2:16
… they would have been in the strength of hale and blooming health? Let death’s arrows pierce us to the heart, our comfort dies not, for have not …
SERMON • SERMON 3558A Plea From the Cross
Luke 23:34
… In His death the whole circle of Creation was completed. As the sponge brought refreshment to the lips of our dying Lord, so may the least of God …
SERMON • SERMON 3122Craving the Best Things
1 Samuel 21:9
… death-dew lies cold on my brow, If ever I loved You, my Jesus, 'tis now!" You cannot look forward to dying in itself without a shiver. Death …
SERMON • SERMON 3050The Errand of Mercy
Luke 19:10
… He seeks them by the death of their fellows—a mother's dying bed, the snatching of a baby to Heaven—all these are the ways in which …
SERMON • SERMON 3465The Suffering Christ Satisfied
Isaiah 53:11
… his labor, above all such labor—labor even unto death? If a man does not achieve by his dying all that he died for, then he cannot be …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 27
Ps 31:5
… The object of the faithful man’s solicitude in life and death is not his body or his estate, but his spirit; this is his choice treasure—if …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 21
2Sa 23:5
… break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house be not so with …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 21
Pr 11:25
… Like the two men in the snow; one chafed the other’s limbs to keep him from dying, and in so doing kept his own blood in circulation …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 28
Ps 33:13
… ear from the highest glory, and puts it to the lip of the dying sinner, whose failing heart longs after reconciliation. How can we but love him when …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 26
1Co 11:24
… It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 18
Heb 12:11
… Even now he grows rich by his losses, he rises by his falls, he lives by dying, and becomes full by being emptied; if, then, his grievous afflictions …
SERMON • SERMON 3451Grand Glorying
Galatians 6:14
… Preach up the dying Savior, instead of men, and it never can be out of season. Those men who, for the sake of variety and freshness, run away …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 18
Joe 2:13
… a dying Saviour’s voice rent the rocks once, and it is as powerful now. O blessed Spirit, let us hear the death-cries of Jesus, and our …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 5
1Jn 4:14
… In the wounds of the dying Saviour see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be also connected with the Eternal, ever-blessed …
SERMON • SERMON 1461BEyes Opened
Genesis 21:19
… The water was gone in her bottle, her child was dying of thirst and she was ready to faint—and yet the cool spring was bubbling up hard …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 17
Ps 12:1
… serve the turn of needy souls. “Help, Lord,” will suit us living and dying, suffering or labouring, rejoicing or sorrowing. In him our help is found, let us …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 2
Col 4:2
… Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 14
Ex 20:25
… There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished, or to improve that in which the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 20
Ps 119:37
… that awaiteth the righteous, and yet be cold? Will not death quicken me? Can I think of dying, and standing before my God, and yet be slothful in …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 31
2Sa 21:10
… Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour. Jesus, we will watch with thee yet awhile, and do thou graciously unveil thyself to us; then shall …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 2
Ps 33:21
… He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him, and cries, “Fear …
SERMON • SERMON 944An Encouraging Lesson From Paul's Conversion
Acts 9:13-16
… the dying Christian may be so absorbed in Heaven that he may scarcely have a thought of the sinner who is looking on—but that happy death will …