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Death is a Biological Event
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Matthew McCullough
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- Death
Death is a biological event—the end of the heart’s beating, the lungs’ breathing, and the brain’s processing—but it is also far more. There’s no confining death to the moment at which your life ends. ...
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R. C. Sproul
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- Death
Death is a divine appointment.
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Matthew McCullough
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- Death
- The Passing of Time
Death spreads its poison through everything we enjoy because nothing we enjoy is ours to keep. Time passes, things change, and eventually everyone loses everything they love
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Alexander Schmemann
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1 Corinthians 15:56, Romans 5:12
Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56) - the rejection by man of the only true life given to him by G...
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Roger Rosenblatt
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- Death
The problem with death is absence.
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Matthew McCullough
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Death is not ok. By avoiding the subject of death, we act like that’s not true. And we shrink down the scale of Jesus’s victory to fit the world we live in now.
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Forgetting Death
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- Death
According to Greek mythology, people once knew in advance their exact day of death. Everyone on earth lived with a deep sense of melancholy, for mortality hung like a sword suspended above them. All t...
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George Herbert
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Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardener.
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Running from Death
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Randy Alcorn
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- Death
- Fear of Death
An ancient story goes like this: A slave travels with his master to Baghdad. Early one morning, while milling through the marketplace, the slave sees Death in human form. Death gives him a threatening...
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Matthew McCullough
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- Death
- In Christ
Through death we may as well be nameless. We’re essentially waiting to be forgotten in time. But in Christ we are known, eternally, by the Father with the same intimacy and affection he has for his So...
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On Aging, Ash Wednesday, and Death
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Do you remember the first time you started to feel your mortality? Or perhaps, the first time you realized their was something wrong with your body? Your mind? At some point (for me it was my twenties...
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Hope in Death: Sermon Illustration Tuesday
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Luke 23:51-56, John 11:25-26, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Romans 6:4, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
What, as Christians, can we say to those who face death, either their own or that of their loved ones? We certainly can give them the hope of Christ’s resurrection, if they or their loved one has trus...
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1 Corinthians 15:55-58, "O death, where is your victory?"
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1 Corinthians 15:55-58
"O death, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved br...
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Phillip Yancey
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- Death
- Self-Destruction
The leading causes of death are self-inflicted — side effects of tobacco, obesity, alcohol, sexually transmitted disease, drugs, and violence. We need a transformation. We need the kind of personal an...
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The choice is before us: life or death.
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Austin D. Hill
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Deuteronomy 30:11-20
The choice is before us: life or death. Let us choose life so that we may live. To Jesus we cry: Cleanse us, oh Lord! By the mercy of Christ we are made clean. This is the hope that we proclai...
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On the Highroad to Death
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Paul Goodman
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- Death
On the highroad to death trudging, not eager to get to that city, yet the way is still too long for my patience —teach me a travel song, Master, to march along as we boys used to shout when I w...
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The Leading Causes of Death
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Phillip Yancey
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- Death
The leading causes of death [in America] are self-inflicted — side effects of tobacco, obesity, alcohol, sexually transmitted disease, drugs, and violence. We need a transformation. We need the kind o...
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Epicurus
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- Death
- Fear of Death
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"
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J. R. R. Tolkein
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"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see ...
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Benjamin Franklin
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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“But I Don’t Want to Die”
Author

Mark D. Roberts
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- Ash Wednesday
- Death
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Genesis 3:19, Romans 6:23
My friend Tim is a manager of a small company. Because he often hires people for their first full-time job, he gets to tell new employees about their benefits. One time, Tim was trying to explain to a...
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John Donne
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally; and Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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All the Succession of Time
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Jeremy Taylor
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All the succession of time, all the changes in nature, all the varieties of light and darkness, the thousand thousands of accidents in the world, and every contingency to every one, preaches our funer...
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John Piper
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- Death
- Funerals
At funerals we sometimes lay quite a bit of emphasis on the fact that Christians never say their last good-bye. Death means we will be reunited with loved ones who have died in the Lord before us.
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George Eliot
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- Death
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man’s death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred, too.
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Just a stain in the soil
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William Rowley
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Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 3:20, Genesis 18:27, James 4:14, Psalm 90:12, Psalm 39:4, 1 Peter 2:24-25, Psalm 90:10, Psalm 78:39, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Psalm 39:5, Psalm 144:4, Job 14:1, Psalm 103:15-16, Job 7:6-7, Genesis 2:7
I love a British TV show called Time Team. Hosted by Tony Robinson, a team of archeologists descend on a site in Britain and excavate for three days. Inevitably, the archeologists unearth the dead...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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While lying in bed due to a serious illness, the poet and pastor John Donne heard over and over again the funeral bells at his church, which would ring to announce the death of someone in the parish. ...
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Stanley Hauerwas
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We live in a death-denying world that seems determined to develop technologies that will enable us to get out of life alive. Yet the more we strive to be free of death the more we are shaped by the de...
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Fred Smith
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It's important, as we go along in life, to create thirsts that death will satisfy.
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Martin Luther
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- Death
Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes [so that] we will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one foot in the air, so to speak.

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