Death & Dying

An Astounding Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

… Oh, my Hearers, do not some of you say, "We do not want to be worried with thoughts of death, judgment and eternity! We do not desire to …

The Looking Glass

James 1:23-25

… When the boys stoned them, the poor creatures said, "It may be sport to you, but it is death to us!" You may hear me, this day, with …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… Faith peers across the stream of death, and longs for the rest which remains for the people of God. Faith has, indeed, so sharp a vision, that it …

Joy in God

Romans 5:11

… When I behold Him as a bound Victim led to the slaughter and willingly yielding up His life in a cruel and shameful death that He may redeem …

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… I want to know about that which concerns my soul for life and for death and to know the truth of it." Such a man is open to …

Good Reasons for a Good Resolution

Isaiah 61:10

… It is true that you or I may lie upon a bed of sickness, and draw near to the gates of death, but I trust that, even then …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. Now therefore take, I pray you, your weapons, your quiver and your …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… My Presence will go with you through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." That is …

Joy in a Reconciled God

Romans 5:11

… And may He then turn your chaos into order, your death into life, and your deformity into the beauty of holiness to the praise of the glory of …

Good Earnests of Great Success

Acts 6:7

… Who would not wish to live, or even to die, for this? “Let him be crowned with majesty, Who bowed his head in death, And let his praise …

The Love of Our Espousals

Jeremiah 2:2

… so much as the martyrs did when they went to prison and to death—you almost wished you could do so, for it seemed such a blessed thing …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… I stood a few hours ago at the bedside of one of our Brethren in Christ who seemed sorely sick and at the point of death. He could …

The Question Between the Plagues

Exodus 10:3

… Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only. See …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… Yet he is not dead—no, but it is grievous to see how near death he has come, and with what difficulty he breathes. How weak are his …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… They were put to death in all manner of ways. In our own country, especially, by being burned to death at the stake. Yet the enemies of Zion …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… Remember Your mercy in the seal of that Covenant when Your only-begotten Son was given up to death! Remember all the mercy You have had upon us …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… Even more than this—I doubt not that many are removed by death when they become obstacles to the Truth of God, or fall into sin. "For this …

The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace

John 1:14

… You cannot desire, certainly you cannot require, anything that should exceed what is found of grace in the person, offices, work, and death of the only begotten. Come …

The Withered Fig Tree

Matthew 21:17-20

… Eleven are dry rods still; but see this rod of Aaron! What has happened? It was dry as death. See, it has budded! This is wonderful! But look …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Oh, that we may bring forth our fruit in its due season—patience in tribulation, courage in danger, holiness in life and hope in death! We fail to …

The Prodigal's Climax

Luke 15:17

… He had received his portion of goods—all that he would have had at his father's death he had turned into ready money—and there it was …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… They were faithful even unto death. This glorious firmness in the faith is greatly needed now to resist the insidiousness of error. Besides, dear friends, it may in …

The Believer's Heritage of Joy

Psalm 119:111

… man carries his life in his hand—that is to say, he expects death, he is in imminent peril—and may, at any moment, be cut off from …

The God of Bethel

Genesis 31:13

… He dies upon the accursed tree a felon's death, that He may be like man even in bearing the image of death upon His face! This is …

The Backslider'S Way Hedged Up

Hosea 2:5-7

… Why did death come just when my fair girl looked so lovely in the bloom of opening womanhood and when my dear boy had grown so engaging that …

Love's Logic

1 John 4:19

… entirely to his potent love, which dealt with us effectually turning us from death to life, from darkness to light and from the alienation of our mind and …

The Ever-present Crisis

2 Peter 3:17

… We receive large numbers into fellowship, but there are continually large numbers going out from us, not always by sin, but many, of course, by death and emigration …

A Feast for the Upright

Psalm 84:11

… They are not a wage, but a gift. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life." Glory will come to you on …

God's Heart the Source of All Blessing

2 Samuel 7:21

… Paul asked, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" And then answered his own question, "I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor …

The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ

John 12:26

… Oh, that it may be to us a savor of life unto life, that we may be kept by it and not a savor of death unto death …

Salvation All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… If He looks upon you in mercy, not because you are beautiful but because you are sick unto death and defiled, and need to be healed and cleansed …

One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!

Proverbs 22:13

… Lions or no lions, men must work, or find disease and death in sloth! But we have many spiritual sluggards and it is to them that I speak …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… Two years ago that Hall was the scene of such discomfiture, such dire calamity and death, as we hardly dare to think of. Sure that was the night …

Cords and Cart-Ropes

Isaiah 5:18

… If you come and trust him to-night you shall find that for you he endured the wrath of God, for you he paid the penalty of death …

The Need and Nature of Conversion

Isaiah 55:7

… And Hell is sin fully developed. "Sin, when it is finished, brings forth death," and that second death is Hell. O Sirs, if you could get rid of …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… Will you have this God to be your God? Will you say, "This God is our God forever and ever—He will be our Guide even unto death …

Life's Ever-Springing Well

John 4:14

… Man is dead in sin! How long will you hunt the sepulcher before you shall discover life within the ribs of death? Long enough may you ransack yonder …

Cheer for the Worker and Hope for London

Acts 18:9

… It is a part of the cost that, "a man's foes shall be they of his own household." "The brother shall deliver up the brother to death …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… Why are these afflictions of the righteous? Whence is it that he who has given up his Son to death for them, should deny them earthly blessings? Why …

Prayer 7 — "Let All the People Praise Thee"

… high degree of infamy and did not the new life restrain the old death, we know not what we might yet become. We thought once we were humble …