
Dealing With Loss as a Christian
Dealing with loss as a Christian means we know there is life beyond the grave. Still, the Bible tells us there is a time to weep.
Dealing with loss as a Christian means we know there is life beyond the grave. Still, the Bible tells us there is a time to weep.
Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it Habakkuk 2:2b (ESV) In this well-known verse, the word vision has more to it than meets the eye. It means a divine revelation …
Welcome to Real Life . Like it or not, death is a part of real life. Theresa (Salva) Keeler September 8, 1957 - July 7, 2023 Theresa/Terre/T...
Romans 6:3-6 speaks about our inclusion in the death and resurrection of Christ. Verse 5: “If we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the liken…
Written by James Weldon Johnson, 1927Published in “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse” The author melded ‘Negro’ literary heritage folk sermons and poetry t…
Do you wonder what stepping into heaven will be like? Joni Eareckson Tada does too.
For those who know Jesus, death is the final pain and the last enemy.
This year has been a year of loss. In God’s economy, loss is so often gain if we are ready […]
Check out the So We Speak podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In this episode of the Podcast, Cole and Lance Ward discuss a theology of funerals and how the pastor can play a vital part in ministering to the family and all who attend. Your Funeral Lance offers some key insights for planning for your own funeral as well: Talk about your funeral with your family. Write things down and have a plan for the benefit of your remaining loved ones. What do you want people to know? Will the gospel be…
Whatever happens with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats, Christians should understand that this cannot be biblical Armageddon. That is a specific series of battles fought at the end of what the Bible calls “the great tribulation period” that will last for seven years. It is inaugurated by the emergence of the Antichrist and ends with the return of Jesus Christ.
Dead people don’t come back and tell us what they’ve experienced. But we can know some things based on the Bible’s explanations.
A Matter of Life and Death Paul does not sugarcoat the truth: we are sinners and deserve death. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned. (Romans 5:12 CSB) Death We inherited death from our ancesto …
By Elizabeth Prata source BBC Today, Thursday, September 8, 2022, the Queen of England’s medical team had put out a bulletin that they “are very concerned for the Queen’s health.&…
By Elizabeth Prata For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23). We all have a sin-nature. Every person born on the planet (ex…
This post was originally published in July 2018.–ed. It’s hard for our finite minds to conceive of eternity—or for that matter, anything outside of our routine experience in this temporal realm. In spite of the pictorial language employed by the biblical authors, it can be difficult for us to form a clear concept of heaven,
This post was originally published in July 2018.–ed. Are you afraid to die? It’s natural for humans to fear the unknown. But thanks to the clear testimony of God’s Word, believers do not have to approach the end of this temporal life in fearful ignorance. On the contrary, we should echo the triumphant words of
How will I be remembered? That’s a thought-provoking question that may hit us as we come to the end of our lives, but here’s a more sobering version of that question: Will I be remembered?
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was a therapist who worked with people who were facing death. In one of her books, Kubler-Ross mentioned the story of a child, an 8-year-old boy, who was dying with a brain tu…
I loved what her sister and each of our kids and grandkids had to share about Nanci.
(Photo: Unsplash) Dear Death, I’m writing to you today with a simple message: Do not be proud. I realize that you have some reason for pride. You have had your way with nearly every human ever to live. (Do Enoch and Elijah keep you up at night?) You have done...