Lent (Week 3) | Death & Mortality

Trampling Death

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 6, 2001

TRAMPLING DEATH The early Christians understood that death had been conquered by the resurrection of Christ; this theme recurs repeatedly in their writings. Again and again one is struck with the note of victory in the attitude of the martyrs as they faced death. St. Athanasius wrote of this ...read more

Marking The Time  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

MARKING THE TIME Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we ...read more

Tags: New Year's Day

Rejoice, That The Immortal God Is Born, So That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in ...read more

Tags: Compassion, Cross Agony, Humanity Of Christ

By Life Or By Death  PRO

Contributed by Dana Chau on Apr 22, 2002

BY LIFE OR BY DEATH John Piper, in his book, Future Grace, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer called mycosis fungoides, which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1, Philippians 2:1-4

Tags: Church Practices, Worship General

Denomination: *other

Humorous Epitaphs  PRO

Contributed by John Shearhart on May 16, 2002

Have you ever heard these humorous epitaphs? 1. “Here lies Anne Mann. Who lived an old maid, but died an old Mann.” 2. “Beneath this sod, a lump of clay lays Arabella Young; who on the 21st of May began to hold her tongue.” 3. “The children of Israel wanted bread, the Lord sent them ...read more

Tags: Death

Lisa Beamer: Reflecting On The Loss Of Her Dad.  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2002

Lisa Beamer: Reflecting on the loss of her dad. “Slowly I began to understand that the plans God has for us don’t just include ‘good things’, but the whole array of human events. The ‘prospering’ he talks about in the book of Jeremiah is often the outcome of a ‘bad’ event. I remember my mom saying ...read more

Tags: Death

A Doctor Called One Of His Patients Into His ...  PRO

Contributed by Howard Parnell on Sep 24, 2002

A doctor called one of his patients into his office to deliver some very important news. "I have received the results of your tests and I have some bad news and some good news", said the doctor. The patient was quiet for a moment, sensing the severity of the announcement. "Let me have the good ...read more

Tags: Death

Denomination: Baptist

Your Death And My Death Are Mainly Of ...

Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 29, 2003

"Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us, and those who ...read more

Tags: Death

Denomination: Mennonite

They Who Have Lost An Infant Are Never, As It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one is rendered an immortal child, for death has arrested it with ...read more

Tags: Death

Salvation And The Surgeon

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 17, 2012

Jesus came to be our Savior. To be our substitute. To die FOR us. But while God would be the only one pure enough to die for us... Gods don't die. And while mortals CAN die, no mortal man could ever be the sinless sacrifice the law required to pay for our sins. No ordinary man would be pure and ...read more

Tags: Christmas, Atonement, Salvation

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ