Death & Dying

"Beautiful Forever"

Psalm 149:4

… Another of the meek ones was Stephen, whose dying prayer for his murderers proves how meek and forgiving he was. It is written of him that when he …

Guests for the Royal Feast

Matthew 22:8-10

… He who continues to reject the pardon which the Gospel proclaims and hardens his neck after many reproofs, dying as he now is, will have proved his utter …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… Rely on His atoning Sacrifice, His dying love, His rising power, His ascended plea—and as you rest in Him, your vital touch, however feeble, will certainly give …

'By Water and Blood'

1 John 5:6

… If any man sees his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shallask, andHe shall give him life for them that sin not unto death …

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… Those are charming bells, indeed, free Grace and dying Love! Through the ivory gate of Grace all mercies come to sinners. Through this window of agate, this gate …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… The death of an enemy is to me a cause of regret as well as the death of a friend. Are not all my brethren? and doth not …

The Snare of the Fowler

Psalm 91:3

… He was a persecutor, who cast men into the furnace, and put them to death for serving Christ. The devil of this day is a well-spoken gentleman …

Danger. Safety. Gratitude.

… Released from sin, and toil, and grief Death was their gate to endless life! An opened cage to let them fly And build their happy nest on high …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… Even so, Christ must be a savor, either of life unto life, or of death unto death—but a savor He must be wherever He comes! It is …

God's Overtaking Mercy

Genesis 16:8

… You long for death—you would almost seek the place where the lamps quiver on the dark river, for your spirit is bitterness, itself, your lamp of hope …

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints

Psalm 46:8-9

… This will be the last triumph of Christ, before death itself shall be dead, death’s great jackal, war, must die also, and then shall there be peace …

A Remarkable Benediction

Deuteronomy 33:16

… We have lain cast out even from the Presence of God, sometimes in our apprehensions, in the very deeps of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and …

"Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?"

Jeremiah 32:26

… Remember how He forgave David and Manasseh and the dying thief and Saul of Tarsus and the woman that was a sinner? May the Holy Spirit make a …

Knowing and Doing

John 13:17

… By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony …

A Summons To Battle

2 Samuel 11:1

… Remember, there are tens of thousands of God's elect who are captives to death and Hell—some of them blasphemers, many of them drunkards, some plunged in …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… the tree? Who was it that opened our blind eye to see a dying Saviour? Who was it that opened your deaf ear to hear the voice of …

The Believer's Present Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… As to the pangs of death, we know that the Lord will be with us and will sustain us in the valley of death-shade and we have …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… Be not staggered if death, itself, is there. I am greater than death." Would our Lord have spoken thus if He had not been conscious of infinite power …

Eyes Opened

2 Kings 6:17

… There is water close to you, yet you are dying of thirst. There is bread by your side, yet you are perishing of hunger. May the Lord graciously …

Daniel—a Pattern for Pleaders

Daniel 9:19

… Oh, don't stop your prayers! You seem to me, good people, to be very like that king who, when he went to the dying Prophet, was told …

'As' and 'So'

Colossians 2:6

… Yes, one lying at the point of death, the sick man dying of fever may receive the cooling draught that is put to his lips! This is all …

Grace—the One Way of Salvation

Acts 15:11

… filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins." That fountain is for the dying thief as much as for you, and for you as much as for him …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… But the consequence was that to their dying day the worm of conscience gnawed their soul! They have made the rod wherewith God has scourged them. Mind what …

Messrs. Moody and Sankey Defended; or, A Vindication of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Galatians 5:24

… He has come to deliver us, not from thee, O death, alone! nor from thee, O hell, alone! but from thee, O sin, the mother of death, the …

Love's Lamentation

Malachi 1:2

… I have preserved your life and cared for you until now that you lie there dying, and you will be lost because of despised mercy and unrequited love …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… just." If you do not repent, the curse shall follow you until your dying day and not having Christ for your Shepherd, you shall wander where that hungry …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… Living by frames and feelings is a dying form of life. "He lived by a feeling experience," said one—and a poor method of living, too! Christians have …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a bond so dear." Now, Beloved, as I have shown that Christ has a right to …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… If you now desire to be saved, you may depend upon it that you have not committed that sin which is unto death! And if you are now …

The Hope That Purifies

1 John 3:3

… I have sometimes been astonished and delighted when I have seen how readily these sins are put to death. They are taken out to the block and executed …

Exceeding Gladness

Psalm 21:6

… His death is rewarded by the Father with an endless life of bliss—"He asked life of You, and You gave it Him, even length of days forever …

Loved and Washed

Revelation 1:5

… When Christ pardons sin He kills it, He crucifies it—and crucifixion, you know, means death. But it is a lingering death and a crucified man lives in …

Healing Leaves

Revelation 22:2

… Too long has the age of filth made the crowded populations the prey of disease and death. Up yonder in Heaven the sanitary measures are perfection, for, "there …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… And then come sickness, old age, disease, death. Is it over now? No, no, no! We will raise one stone more when we get into the river, we …

Our Lord in the Valley of Humiliation

Philippians 2:8

… death, even the death of the Cross, I feel that there must be a potency about that death which is all that I can require. Jesus, by dying …

Hoping in God's Mercy

Psalm 33:18

… See Him dying in unutterable pains and pangs! See His hands and feet distilling founts of blood! See His body racked with agonies that cannot be described! His …

The Poor Man's Friend

Psalm 72:12

… thus.' 'Tis true, but when a man is hungry, when a man is dying, he does not think of rights. He holds you right or wrong. His need …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… Himself He could not save." "Being found in fashion as a Man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death." He emptied Himself out for us, and all …

Accepted of the Great Father

Ephesians 1:6

… what may! Is not this a word to die with? We will meet death and face his open jaws with this word, "Accepted in the Beloved." Will not …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… From the Throne of God, where they might have expected condemnation and the sentence of death, there came this mission, this word, this message, "Go and proclaim these …