Results

~ D E A T H ~ WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLAIN IT A sick man turned to his doctor, as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side." Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't know." "You don't know? You, a Christian man, do not…

From Max Lucado, "A Gentle Thunder"

When you can't trace God's hand, you can trust God's heart. Charles Spurgeon

How’d You Live Your Dash? > > I read of a man who stood to speak > At the funeral of a friend > He referred to the dates on her tombstone > From the beginning...to the end. > > He noted that first came her date of birth > And spoke the following date with tears, > But he said what mattered most of all…

If you would get a fair estimate of the happiness of any man, you must judge him in these two closely connected things: his life and his death. The heathen Solon said, “Call no man happy until he is dead, for you do not know what changes may pass upon him in life.” We add to that, “Call no man happy…

Charles Borromeo, the famous bishop of Milan, ordered a painter who was about to draw a skeleton with a scythe over a sepulcher to substitute for it the golden key of Paradise. Truly this is a most fitting emblem for a believer’s tomb, for what is death but the key of heaven to the Christian? We notice…

If you drank poison and did not know it, I could pity you. If you made all your veins to swell with agony, and caused your death … But when we stand up and say, “It is poison! See others drop and die; do not touch it!” When we give you something a thousand times better, and ask you to take it, but you…

When traveling among the Alps in a dense mist, we have seemed to see vast lakes without a shore, crags that appeared like the battlements of heaven, and awful depths that thrilled us with horror. Yet much of that mystery was only caused by the mist. When we journeyed the same way on a bright morning,…

Picture yourself sitting in a gloomy dungeon, a captive in the hands of the cruel tyrant Nero, and under the supervision of the infamous prefect Tigellinus, the most detestable of all Nero’s satellites. Conceive yourself as expecting soon to be taken out to death—perhaps to such a horrible death as the…

Often when I have been traveling on the Continent I have been obliged to put up at a hotel that was full, where the room was so inconvenient that it scarcely furnished any accommodation at all. But we have said, “Oh, never mind; we are off in the morning! What does it matter for one night?” So, as we…

When the Portuguese captain first went by the Cape of Storms it was a venturous voyage, and he called it the Cape of Good Hope when he had rounded it. When Columbus first went in search of the New World, his was a brave spirit that dared cross the unnavigated Atlantic. But there are tens of thousands…

I have heard of a certain king who had a jester or “fool” to make fun for him, as kings used to have. But this “fool” was no fool; he had much sense, and he had thought wisely about eternal matters. One day, when he had greatly pleased the king, his majesty gave him a stick, and said to him, “Tom, there…

When the children of Israel went through the Jordan, they were told that the Jordan would divide before them. But they were still more fully assured when the priests went forward with the ark, for as soon as the feet of the priests touched the margin of the river, the waters began to divide. As they…

There was a good old soul whose minister called to see her when she was dying. Among other things he said to her, “My sister, you are very weak; don’t you feel yourself sinking?” She looked at him, and gave no answer, but said, “Did I understand you, minister? Please tell me what you said—I hope you…

John Wesley once said, “Now, if I knew I should die tomorrow morning, I would do exactly what I have planned to do. I should take the class meeting at such an hour, preach at such an hour, and be up at such a time in the morning to pray.” That good man’s life was spent in prospect of sudden departure,…

There is a ship at sea, fully laden. It has a precious cargo of gold on board. Happy is the kingdom that shall receive the wealth that is contained within its hold. Would you not, if you were a possessor of such a vessel, long to be safe in port? When the ship is full of treasure, well may the captain…

At present, it is with us as it is with the world during the winter. If you had not seen the miracle wrought again and again, you would not guess, when you look upon those black beds in the garden, or when you walk over that snowy and frosty covering, crisp and hard beneath your feet, that the earth…

Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…

I have sometimes thought of the contrast between the poor man’s funeral and the rich man’s funeral. When the poor man dies, his sons and daughters weep with real distress, for the death of the father brings sadness and sympathy into that house. The poor man is to be buried, but it can only be managed…

There were two brothers, one of whom had been diligently attentive to his worldly business, to the neglect of true religion. He succeeded in accumulating considerable wealth. The other brother was diligent in the service of the Master, and had learned both to distribute to the poor and for conscience’s…

One thing that is on every calendar is the time of our death. Many news outlets prepare obituaries of famous people ahead of their deaths so they will be prepared to go to print early when they do die. A French public radio station mistakenly published some of those obituaries, including Queen Elizabeth…

Judy Cashner received a letter from her bank recently. It was addressed to her estate saying, “We are sorry for your loss and understand this is a difficult time for you.” When she checked into it she was told by Wells Fargo that she had died. The bank couldn’t tell her how they decided that she had…

69-year-old television personality Emile Ratelband is petitioning a court in the Netherlands to grant him a new birthday and make him 20 years younger. Ratelband said he thinks age is just a number, and he would prefer to be 49. Ratelband said he want to avoid age discrimination, especially on dating…

We are all going to die of something. Cancer and heart disease are the two leading cause of deaths in the U. S. The third leading cause might surprise you. 251,454 people every year die because of a medical error making this the third leading cause of death. Even in attempting to heal, doctors and nurses…

According to the Center for Disease Control, since 1999 the suicide rate increased about 1 percent each year before accelerating to 2 percent annually from 2006 to 2014. Suicide increased among all age groups. Besides economic troubles, the increased “social isolation” due to family breakdown and divorce…