Every day you live you are approaching nearer and nearer to death, to judgment, and to eternity. Consider, therefore, day by day how you shall meet the hour of death, stand the severe test of the judgment, and live during all eternity.
We must exercise diligent care respecting all our thoughts, our words, our deeds, [...]
How comforting to know that God loves our wives and children more than we do, and He will take care of them in the event of our death. Here is what Marin Luther said on the subject:
“Though, if God so ordains, we ourselves might be destroyed for the sake of His Word, the Almighty and [...]
Officials with Coral Ridge Ministries have confirmed that Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away early this morning. Dr. D. James Kennedy served many years as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from [...]
The key to talking through your grief is finding people who will let you talk and help you heal. I call these healing people. H-E-A-L stands for Here, Empathetic, Accepting, and Listening.
Healing people are:
Here for you when you need them. They’re willing to be with you and make time for you. They know that [...]
One of my favorite autobiographies is the Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar (1810 – 1892), a pastor in the Free Church of Scotland, and younger brother of Horatius, also a famous preacher and hymn writer. Here are a few selections from Andrew Bonar’s Diary and Life:
Sunday, January 9th - I sought beforehand that at [...]
Last night I was stunned and shocked to watch the news about the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It hit close home for a couple of reasons. First, I have personally traveled over that very bridge many times, usually with my family, and also, I have many close family members who live in the Twin Cities, who, fortunately, are all [...]
“We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about “pie in the sky” and of being told that we are trying to escape form the duty of making a happy world here and now into dreams of a happy world elsewhere. But either there is “pie in the [...]
Here is the last part of the section from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. Bayly identifies this as the sixth of six different assaults of Satan on believers:
Satan’s Sixth Assault
And last, if Satan tries to persuade you that [...]
Samuel Rutherford’s (1600 – 1661) encouragement and counsel to a suffering friend was for her to keep her mind and heart fixed on Christ and heaven:
“Therefore, bear patiently the loss of children, and burdens, and other discontentments, either within or without the house: your Lord in them is seeking you, and you [ought to] seek [...]
The day before his death, John Owen (1616-1683) wrote to a friend:
“I am going to Him whom my soul has loved, or rather who has loved me with an everlasting love – which is the whole ground of my consolation . . . I am leaving he ship of the church in a storm; but [...]
