Death & Dying

A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life

Matthew 6:10

… The same would also be true of our own living or dying. ‘Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints’; and therefore we …

Christ's Rest and Ours

Isaiah 11:10

… never may, but why should you fear death? Why should you dread the grave? Our Lord Jesus left His grave clothes behind for our use, and He carefully …

The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven

Luke 24:36-44

… Only as we are sure of the Resurrection of Jesus can we cry, "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?" II. Secondly, will …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… He hears the shrieks of the dying and the groans of the wounded. He knows that even conquerors themselves have said that all the enthusiasm of victory has …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… Spiritual death crept over all ministers and all professors. There were, of course, a few exceptions, but those were, alas, so weak and so isolated that they could …

The Royal Prerogative

Psalm 68:20

… He keeps us from death and from the fierce agencies which wait to drag us to the grave. There are issues out of the dark border-land of …

"Noli Me Tangere" ("Touch Me Not")

John 20:17

… The special thing to be noted about Mary Magdalene is that she had gone to the grave to find Christ. She had made a mistake about the condition …

The Believing Thief

Luke 23:42-43

… SOME TIME AGO I preached upon the whole story of the dying thief. I do not propose to do the same to-day, but only to look at …

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… How common it is to find in this city, when an irreligious man is dying, that someone will say, "Oh, he is all right; for a clergyman has …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… man who puts himself to death with the halter, or drives the knife into his heart, or throws himself into his watery grave may have some present griefs …

Christ Triumphant

Colossians 2:15

… Jesus Christ the righteous.” If death should threaten you, shout in his very face:—“O grave where is thy sting” O death, where is thy victory?” Hold up …

The Believer Not An Orphan

John 14:18

… the grave to seek Him. Angel voices say, "He is not here, for He is risen." He could not be held by the bands of death. We do …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… I would ask you—How about the work your God has called you to do? Men are dying—are you saving them? This great city is like a …

Trust In God—True Wisdom

Proverbs 16:20

… all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air? Destruction and Death say, "We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understands the way …

The Majestic Voice

Psalm 29:4

… There is a majesty about the voice of God which might suffice to nerve my soul to fight the dragon; to say, “Where is thy boasted victory, death …

The Father's Will

John 6:39

… It will bear us over the regions of death and bear us into the land of the perfect where we shall see the face of God without sin …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house …

Simple Fact and Simple Faith

Acts 13:38

… had lived a holy life, had been put to death, being falsely accused, had been laid in the grave, after three days had risen again and that afterwards …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… To begin with, it is a sinner's prayer. "Remember me, O Lord!" A sinner's prayer, I say, for the dying thief rejoiced to use the words …

'A Song of My Beloved'

Solomon 2:16

… Men may love, and on their dying beds may have to confess that their Beloved is not theirs—but every Christian has that upon which his heart is …

The Rough Hewer

Hosea 6:4

… In my experience in dealing with anxious souls, I often meet with men and women who find life through the death of their beloved children. An open grave …

Restless! Peaceless!

Isaiah 57:20

… Does lust ever, of its own accord, cease its cravings? No, it is as insatiate as the grave, itself, and it will suck a man's very life …

The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved

Psalm 127:2

… True, there be some drugs and narcotics whereby men can poison themselves well nigh to death, and then call it sleep; but the sleep of the healthy body …

Christ's Dying Word for His Church

John 19:30

… Jesus must have had something to say, in the hour of death, for His Church and, surely, this is His dying word for her! He tells her, shouting …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:13

… I do not doubt, also, that on dying beds men get foretastes of Heaven which they never had in health. When Death begins to pull down the old …

The Red Heifer

Hebrews 9:13

… As a man could not take a walk without stumbling over a grave, nor could he shut himself up in his house without the danger of death entering …

The Death of Christ

Isaiah 53:10

… And when Christ dies, you are to look upon the death of Christ, not as his own dying merely, but as the dying of all those for whom …

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… I will redeem them from death: O Death, I will be your plagues; O Grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from My eyes. Lord …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… And when I went up at last to my grave, and looked from the top of Nebo, I, who had once been fearful, saw with transport the land …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… And truly the spectacle of so many grave, composed, and devout faces must have struck the adversaries with awe, and been more formidable than any outward ability of …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… How often does the mourner judge that he has laid the best part of himself in the grave! However dear they were, they could not stay with us …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… Had Jesus seen corruption, had the grave still held His body in vile durance, our hope would have been but slender. But now that Jesus lives, and death …

The Lord'S Care Of His People

Zechariah 2:8

… At times it curses in the form of temporal death—more often, however, in the form of spiritual hardness of heart. I am not one of those who …

God's Love to the Saints

1 John 3:16

… Him!" Yet once more, there was this remarkable thing about Christ's death—that in dying for us, He was taking upon Himself an awful mass of shame …

On Spiritualizing

… we know practically the death of the flesh, and what it is to be circumcised, and to roll away the reproach of Egypt. We know now what it …

Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts

Zechariah 8:19

… The thought of death is more a feast to us than a fast, for, as Watts sings— "Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows …

A Good Man in An Evil Case

Psalm 55:22

… and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me." Have not some of you been sometimes …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… Thou shalt long to die, yet shalt thou linger in eternal death—dying every hour, yet never receiving the much coveted boon of death. What shall I say …

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Work

… Whatever that term “death” means in connection with the body, that it means in connection with man’s soul, viewing it in its relation to spiritual things. When …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… the grave is where we all stand." Here, indeed, is a choice feature of the atonement, it is comforting to us in the thought of death. When conscience …