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Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2026

To day, in paradise

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Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Some theologians, feeling the weight o...
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Friday, June 20, 2025

Weep not: a funeral procession is interrupted

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And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. ...sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. The canc...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

A Word of Consolation for Mourners

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Points from a funeral sermon: Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Christian’s Death Desirable

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“Christian’s Death Desirable.” “A Sermon preached by Rev. W. Franklin Kone , on Sunday March 10th, 1878, at the 1st Baptist Church, Huntsvil...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Precious in the sight of the Lord

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Psalm 116:15   Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Death. Death is spoken of in several ways in the Scriptures – ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Is it sinful to build new barns?

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When I was a young teenager, I began to work summers for a contractor who built (mostly, but not only) residential homes. I persevered in th...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

Follow the science?

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Maybe the problem is that those who use the phrase do not even know what it means. “But of course, you know, children aren’t supposed to d...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

James 4:13ff

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James 4:13-17  Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The Appointment in Samarra

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(Narrated by Death) There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant cam...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

All is well

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At Baptist News , opinion writer Kate Hanch asks, “Amid this pandemic, can we say with Julian of Norwich, ‘All shall be well’?” I say yes, ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Today in Paradise

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In answer to a dying thief’s request, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom,” “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto the...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Crazy or Called, Moron or Martyr

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The recent death of missionary John Allen Chau has captured the interest of Christianity and the world, often for widely varying reasons. H...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

The way is short

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Below is an almost unreadable epitaph on a tombstone at the Isabell (Isbell) Chapel Cemetery at Sand Hill, Rusk County, Texas. The name on ...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Vital spark of heavenly flame

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In the end of Edmund Shackleford’s obituary the writer made a brief reference to a poem by Alexander Pope . That poem, set to music by Sam...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Final Deliverance

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2 Timothy 4:6-18 As Paul closes his epistle to Timothy, he charges him before God to preach the word and fulfill the ministry to which ...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Nietzsche is dead

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In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche announced, “God is dead.” And God laughed. 18 years later God announced, “Nietzsche is dead.” And Nietzsche died...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Billy Graham passes

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Whether they loved him, hated him, or didn’t care much one way or the other, everyone knew “America’s Pastor.” Billy Graham is dead at age 9...
Friday, October 20, 2017

When you die

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I'm not advocating the "truth" of the following articles, but they make interesting reading. What Happens After You Die? The...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Where's, O Grave, thy conquering glory?

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1. Pleased we read in sacred story,   How our Lord resumed his breath;   Where's, O Grave, thy conquering glory?   Where's th...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Jesus Wept

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John 11:35. 1. Who is this in silence bending O’er a dark sepulchral cave? Sympathetic sorrow blending With the tears around that grave...