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  • Maclaren On Facing Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    MACLAREN ON FACING DEATH The great 1800s Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren said: "Many of us cling to life with a desperate clutch, like some poor wretch pushed over a precipice and trying to dig his nails into the rock as he falls. Some of us cling to it because we dread what is beyond, and ...read more

  • How Will You Face Death?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 13, 2019
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    Voltaire, one of history’s best known atheists, often stated that “by the time I’m buried, the Bible will be non--existent.” His last words were: “I am abandoned by God and man; I shall die and go to hell alone.” His condition had become so terrible that his associates were afraid to approach ...read more

  • How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
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    How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death from Cancer On May 7, 2000, Dr. Boice stood in this pulpit for the last time to speak about his cancer that would take his life in a month. Here is an excerpt: "If I were to reflect on what goes on theologically here, there are two things I would ...read more

  • I Don't Believe In Hell

    Contributed by Raymond Petzholt on Jul 5, 2023
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    Illustration: “I don’t believe in Hell.” The fact that a lot of people have a tough time believing in a literal Hell was brought home to me in a very meaningful way. When I pastored in Chino, CA we lived in a parsonage right next to the Church. I soon noticed that a certain man was walking up ...read more

  • Staring Death In The Face  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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    STARING DEATH IN THE FACE "The first button, the second button, the third button and then we saw the belt." This is what Baruch Neuman said when he realized he was facing a suicide bomber. Is that not how Satan attacks? Once glance, another thought, and then we are in bondage to a sin that we ...read more

  • Faith When Faced With Death?  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Sechler on Jan 25, 2014
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    My son, Micah died in 2012 from kidney disease and complications. As he lay dying I wrote this in my journal: "Sitting at the bedside of my dying son at 3:48 in the morning. Weeping like crazy. Bertrand Russell once said that 'no one can sit at the bedside of dying child and believe in God.' Well ...read more

  • Face To Face With Christ

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 12, 2023
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    Fanny Crosby was one of the greatest hymn writers in the history of the Church. However, she was born blind, but never used her issue to blame God or play the victim. In fact, she once praised God for her blindness and said, "God did her a favor by making her blind" because the first ...read more

  • We Sing When We Face ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 11, 2010
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    We sing when we face death. Lavena (Beanie) Peters was dying of liver cancer. I was at the hospital with her family, essentially on a deathwatch. Beanie’s pain was excruciating, and the pain medicine kept her in a nearly unconscious state. Others left the room for a moment; only Harriet her ...read more

  • Easter Is So Much More Than Learning How To Face ...  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Wessel on Apr 14, 2001
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    Easter is so much more than learning how to face death without fear, with courage and dignity. After all, even philosophers, poets, and scientists can do that. I remember the astronomer Carl Sagan mention in an interview that he was looking forward to death as “the last great adventure.” Walt ...read more

  • Trampling Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 6, 2001
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    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

  • Love Is Face To Face

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 6, 2012
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    LOVE IS FACE-TO-FACE By Erwin Raphael McManus in SOUL CRAVINGS – PREQUEL, pp. 28ff: "I once met a girl named Kim, and I fell in love. I pursued her with my love and pursed her with my love until I felt my love had captured her heart. So I asked her to be my wife, and she said no." I could feel ...read more

  • A Wrinkled Face Is A Firm Face, A Steady Face, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "A wrinkled face is a firm face, a steady face, a safe face. Wrinkles are the dried-up riverbeds of a lifetime's tears, the nostalgic remnants of a million smiles. Wrinkles are the crannies and footholds on the smooth ...read more

  • Your Death Day Is Better Than Your Birthday  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 6, 2003
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    Your death day is better than your birthday. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth (Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV) In the book Facing Death, Billy Graham tells of when he heard of the death Corrie ten Boom. She was a remarkable woman who hid Jews ...read more

  • As Frightening And Foreboding As Death May Seem, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    As frightening and foreboding as death may seem, it can neither hurt nor destroy the child of God. In his book Facing Death, Billy Barnhouse, relates an experience of Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of America’s leading Bible teachers in the first half of the 20th century. Cancer took his first wife, ...read more

  • Death

    Contributed by David Tack on Apr 22, 2024
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    An introduction to death means that one has finally succumbed to the fact of a pending loss of independence and now are now facing a total and final dependence on The Creator of your trinitarian being this is why death is so frightening! Even more reason to walk intimately with Him every day and ...read more

  • Death

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
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    IN LATE WINTER DURING THE FIFTY-NINTH YEAR of his life, John Donne braved the weather and rough roads of the English countryside to keep his final preaching engagement before the king in London. He had spent most of that winter, what would be his last, battling “consumption,” and on several ...read more

  • Death

    Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 29, 2012
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    In Psalm 23, death is described as casting a shadow. Let’s look at that for a moment. Have you ever been enjoying a nice sunny day when all of a sudden a dark cloud hides the sun? All of a sudden you’re in this shadow! What does the shadow do? It hides the light. It makes it more difficult to ...read more

  • Facing Crisis  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 26, 2005
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    Pastor Andrew Murray of South Africa once faced a terrible crisis. Gathering himself into his study, he sat a long while quietly. Prayerfully, thoughtfully. He wrote this in his journal. 1. I am here by God’s appointment; in that fact I will rest. 2. He will keep me here in His love and ...read more

  • The "Yes" Face

    Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 17, 2010
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    THE "YES" FACE I read a story about our 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson, him and his companions were traveling the countryside when they came upon a river that had overran its banks because of heavy rain. The bridge had been washed out and they had to cross the river on horseback fighting against ...read more

  • The Face Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
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    THE FACE OF GOD I heard the story once of a great Cherokee wood carver. He took logs and sat them on a stump outside his back door and sat in front of that log sometimes for hours just staring at it. Finally, he would pick up his carving tools and start carving the most beautiful of things out of ...read more

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