Death

101) Why Does God Make Little Children Get Sick and Die?

     Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of the movie Ways to Live Forever which is opening this weekend.  While blockbuster movies from major movie companies may open in 3,000 theaters at one time, Ways to Live Forever is opening in only eight– so you may not need to bother looking for it at […]

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97) Last Call

By James Dobson, p. 295, Night Light, Multnomah Press, 2000.      Think about the people you love.  Have you thanked them recently for what they mean to you?  If the Lord called you home this evening, would you feel satisfied that you had told them everything you needed to say?      In the last

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66) Tired of Suffering

From the novel Jubilee (1966), by Margaret W. Alexander (1915-98); (Quoted in Conversations With God: Two Centuries of African-American Prayers, ed. by James M. Washington, pp. 211-212, HarperCollins).      Brother Ezekiel held the (two year old) child down close to her mother’s face and said soothingly, “It’s your mama, Vyry, say hello to you maw.”

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55) Learning How to Die

     John 19:26-27 records the third time that Jesus spoke from the cross.  John writes, “When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ‘Dear woman, here is your son!,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother!’  From that time on, the disciple

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