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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
When Jesus went to call Lazarus back from the grave......HE WEPT. Some have wondered why he wept. The Jews must have thought it was from sorrow, because they said, "Behold how He loved him" (John 11:36). Yet we wonder why he wept, if he was going to call him back to life? Maybe ...read more
Scripture: John 11:35, John 14:1-6
Tags: Death, Heaven, Lazarus, Weeping, Funerals (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
On Death and Loss… He was 50 years old. The cancer was aggressive and relentless. The pain was unmanageable and agonizing. In two months he was gone. I didn't have the opportunity to say good-bye and if I did, what would I say? Could I get the words out? Our last communication, me in Port ...read more
Scripture: John 11:25, Psalm 90:1-12, 2 Corinthians 1:1-7
Tags: Grief, Death, Sickness
Denomination: Pentecostal
C.S. Lewis married when he was older to a woman named Joy. Joy got cancer and died just some years after they were married. Lewis, being a writer, wrote down his thoughts after she died in a journal. He turned that journal in a book called, “A Grief Observed.” The first few pages are somewhat ...read more
Scripture: John 11:35, Psalm 88:9
Tags: Loss, Peace, Answers, Grief, Where Is God (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
D. James Kennedy wrote a book called "Skeptics Answered" and in this book, he made this observation that has always stuck with me. It reminds me of a quote from D.L. Moody many years before. Kennedy wrote, "There will, in fact, come a time when some of you will probably be standing ...read more
Scripture: John 11:25-26
Tags: Eternal Life, Easter, Death, Resurrection, Life (view more) (view less)
And now O Lord – When I’ve done drunk my last cup of sorrow— When I’ve been called everything but a child of God— When I’ve done travelling up the rough side of the mountain— O – Mary’s baby— When I start down the steep and slippery steps of death— When this old world begins to rock beneath my ...read more
Scripture: John 11:25, 1 Corinthians 15:20-26
Tags: Death, Resurrection, Hope, Dying, Funeral (view more) (view less)
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