Death & Dying

Christ's Resurrection and Our Newness Of Life

Romans 6:4

… and, therefore, He smarted and went down to the prison of the grave. But by death He discharged His Suretyship and was set free! Our Lord has risen …

Blessings Manifold and Marvelous

Psalm 18:19

… It was my misfortune to be there for nearly five years—and I found it a terrible place! Fears of dying haunted us, and equal fears of living …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… O man kneel down and learn this prayer,—“Lord, let my dying be like the setting of the sun; help me, if clouds and darkness are round about …

“Thus Saith The Lord:” Or, The Book of Common Prayer Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:15

… it is the hour of death, and the matter is weighty, for it concerns the eternal interests of the dying man, and may—nay, will, if you be …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… Even upon infants, the death sentence has taken effect because they were one with Adam. There is no separating Adam from his posterity. Now, Christ is the second …

The Heart Of Flesh

Ezekiel 36:26

… If the Gospel is not a savor of life unto life to you it will be a savor of death unto death. Among hardened sinners the Gospel-hardened …

Bonds Which Could Not Hold

Acts 2:24

… the feet of death, and that could never be. So that both His priestly and kingly offices required that He should rise from the grave. Yes, and so …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… There was a sort of peace in the valley, the horrible repose of death, the grim silence of the grave; but living, sparkling peace, flowing like a river …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… equanimity that even death itself was despised by them, so that they cried, with the Apostle, "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory …

A New Creation

Revelation 21:5

… I have only referred to His death, His burial and His Resurrection, but I might go on to speak of His constant and prevalent intercessions, for His pleading …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… She had been literally dying for twelve years. What had she been doing? Had she resigned herself to her fate, or treated her malady as a small matter …

Messages to Sinners and Saints

Isaiah 30:15

… He said, "I do not think there ought to be any scare-making about death. We ought to so live and to so die daily, that when death …

'The Blood of the Testament'

Hebrews 9:19

… If Christ bought you—if the Father gave you to Him, if Christ became a Surety for you, then— "Nor death, nor Hell, shall ever remove His favorites …

A Vexed Soul Comforted

Job 27:2

… Or, perhaps, your infant was carried to the grave, to be soon followed by its dear mother, and you are left to mourn alone. Bereavement has followed bereavement …

Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad

Psalm 147:14

… pool, the health of the grave-yard, the health of a fainting fit—a fit that is on the very verge of death. God be pleased to let …

The Tender Enquiry of a Friend

Jeremiah 47:5

… He went with broken bones to the grave—a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. How grievously he had injured himself! How long he had to cut …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… It was generally believed that every supernatural manifestation was to be regarded as a token of speedy death. "We shall surely die because we have seen God" was …

The Young Man'S Prayer

Psalm 90:14

… Yield to its force, and seek that mercy which is as really needed by you as by the hoary-headed villain who rots into his grave, festering with …

Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate

John 18:38

… This He said, signifying what death He should die." Being lifted up from the earth on the Cross was death which could only come from the Romans. The …

The Duty of the Present Hour

Hosea 10:12

… With one foot in the grave, oh, seek to have both feet on the Rock of Ages! Then you need not fear old age and its infirmities, or …

But a Step

1 Samuel 20:3

… There is but a step between us and death. And this is all the more true when we consider that there are so many gates to the grave …

Christ the Maker of All Things New

… He was laid in the grave, assuredly dead, under the dominion of Death for the time being. And you and I who are in Him, at that time …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… the sepulcher, at home at death's dark door. "Free among the dead," 5. Like the slain that lie in the grave whom You remember no more: and …

Rest For The Laboring

Matthew 11:28-30

… died the death of the Cross by which He obtained power to put away the sins of men! He has also risen from the grave, no more to …

The Lamb—The Light

Revelation 21:23

… They were sown in the grave in weakness but they are raised in power. They were carried away by the hands of remorseless Death but they arise to …

No Compromise

Genesis 24:5-8

… But our blessed Lord has actually risen from an actual death, and stands before us this day as the Conqueror of death, and the Spoiler of the grave …

The Gospel Cordial

Proverbs 31:6

… Imitate him as far as you can, even though Christians are not now persecuted unto death. Many of you can give away this Gospel Cordial by visiting the …

Gone, Gone Forever

1 Kings 20:40

… Call it not life at all, but write it down as animated death! To the service of God a thousand voices call us all. I know not where …

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… live also." Ask why you are alive in such a body of death and grave of sin as your poor nature is? You live because Christ lives and …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… All this is assuredly a gift—how could it be otherwise? We could never have enjoyed this everlasting consolation today if Free Grace and dying love had not …

Plain Gospel For Plain People

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

… What do you think, my Friends, would become of the dying if the Gospel were intricate and complex? How would even the saints derive consolation in death from …

The Best Beloved

Song 5:16

… dying. Oh, my brethren, what brave talk God’s people have often given us about their Lord when they have been on the edge of the grave! That …

The Drawings Of Divine Love

John 6:44

… There must be death before there can be resurrection and then they say to themselves, "This, we fear, is true. But how different it is from the message …

The Power of His Resurrection

Philippians 3:10

… He was master over death, even when death seemed to have mastered Him—He entered the grave as a captive but left it as a conqueror. He was …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… If your own household cannot see that you are godly, depend upon it, nobody else can! And if your parents or children have grave doubts about the sincerity …

"The Sure Mercies of David"

Acts 13:34

… In this Jesus, who died on Calvary and in dying, destroyed death and burst the bonds of the grave, lies our salvation! Yet it lies in One who …

Loyal to the Core

2 Samuel 15:21

… dying, yet if the Lord enables us to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, and so to lead a decided, positive, downright, upright Christian life, our death pillow …

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

… then falls another, yea all, one after another, till death be left upon the stage. Death is that damp which puts out all the dim lights of vanity …

The Holdfasts of Faith

Romans 4:16

… death through soul trouble. He is crying like David in the 88th Psalm, "My soul is full of troubles and my life draws near unto the grave." Though …

Life Proved by Love

1 John 3:14

… That is implied in the text— "We know that we have passed from death unto life." We could not have passed from death if we were not in …