At Eternity’s Gate (above) is an oil painting that Vincent van Gogh made in 1890. The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his mental health troubles, and just two months before his death, generally accepted as a suicide. The painting was […]
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Above drawing: Woman Praying at a Deathbed, 1864, by Swiss artist Benjamin Vautier (1829-1898) ——————————————- The day will come for each of us when we will need these prayers. FOR THE DYING: O my heavenly Father, God of all comfort, I thank you for revealing to me your dear Son, Jesus Christ, in whom I
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Luke 23:32-43 — Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with Jesus to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And
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An article by Joel Belz in World magazine, July 18, 2009 (with slight editing). Note that this article was written sixteen years ago, so the dollar amounts have increased significantly; but the issue is the same, the debate has continued, and we are all sixteen years closer to the time that each of us may
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The 1984 movie “Places in the Heart” ends with a wonderful image of heaven. The movie is set in a small town in Texas in 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression. It begins with the accidental killing of Sheriff Royce Spalding, a good man with a wife and two
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Ecclesiastes 7:10 says, “Do not ask, ‘Why were the old days better than these?,’ for it is not wise to ask such questions.” Do you ever ask that or wonder that? Do you, perhaps, as the question implies, just take for granted that things were indeed better in the ‘good old
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(…continued) Doug and Gary were having coffee on a Monday morning. Doug said, “I was trying to find something on the radio on my way to the golf course yesterday, and I happened to run across one of these hellfire and damnation preachers. I kept listening just for laughs, but it turned out
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With such huge swings in the stock market every day now, we could all become billionaires in no time at all– if only we were able to look into the future. That would never work, of course, because if we could all look into the future, there would be no such thing as
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(…continued) And now people, I will come closer home to you still. Death has given its warnings to all of us. What about those lungs that are so soon exhausted of their breathing if you travel up a flight of stairs to your bed? And why is it you need those glasses for
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Above image: Spurgeon preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. ************************ (…continued) 4) Next, let us observe the terrors which surround Death. To the wise, dying is a solemn thing. It always gives some trembling to the flesh, some quivering to the human frame, to think of breathing out my soul, and launching
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