Dying and bereavement; grief and consolation; heaven and the world to come; the hope of glory beyond this life.
- On the Loss of a Beloved Pastor John Newton
Your beloved pastor has died, but he has only gone a little before you. We expect and hope to follow him soon. It will be a joyful meeting, when we shall part no more. In …
- Retire Like a Plentiful Guest from a Thankful Table John Newton
The calendar tells me that if I live until next Monday, I shall enter my seventy-sixth year. I believe you will pray for me on that day. My eyes, ears, and legs likewise …
- Thankful Guest from a Plentiful Table John Newton
Pray likewise for me, that no gross imprudence or misconduct may stain the latter part of my life — but that I may be enabled to exemplify in myself what I have labored …
- The Top of our Comfort Stephen Charnock
It is the top of our comfort that he is in heaven a pleader, as it was the foundation of our comfort that he was once on earth a sufferer.
- Steve Jobs on Abortion Steve Jobs
I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion.
- Laying Up Treasures in Heaven William Greenhill
Men can endure any difficulty and danger to get estates, but they will hardly endure anything to get heaven, grace, or an interest in Christ.
- New Feelings and Purposes Charlies Hodge
The apostle therefore says that if any man is in Christ he experiences a change analogous to that predicted by the prophets, and like to that which we still anticipate …
- Jesus! Edmund Clowney
Jesus rose!
Our hope remains in the present: Jesus lives!
Our hope is completed in the future: Jesus is coming!
- Strange Rugged Providences Thomas Brooks
As all the stones that were about Stephen’s ears did but knock him the closer to Christ, the corner-stone—so all the strange rugged providences that we meet with, they …
- Be Still My Soul Katharina Von Schlegel
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav’nly Friend. Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
- All Tears Will be Wiped Away John Newton
Yes, madam, though every stream must fail, the fountain is still full and flowing. All the comfort you ever received in your dear friend was from the Lord, who is …
- Fading is the Worldling’s Pleasure John Newton
Savior, if of Zion’s city I, through grace, a member am, Let the world deride or pity— I will glory in Thy name. Fading is the worldling’s pleasure, All his boasted pomp …
- The Word Made Man Athanasius
By man death has gained its power over men; by the Word made Man death has been destroyed and life raised up anew.
- Truly Evangelical Piety Geerhardus Vos
May God by his Spirit maintain among us, and through our instrumentality revive around us, that truly evangelical type of piety which not merely tolerates facts and …
- The Inaugurator Herman Ridderbos
For what is intended is not merely that Christ was the First or formed the beginning in terms of chronological order; he was rather the Pioneer, the Inaugurator, who …
- News of a Better World John Newton
Blessed by God for the news of a better world, where there will be no sin, change, nor defect for ever. And let us praise him, likewise, that He has appointed means of …
- As If the World Were All John Owen
Men walk and talk as if the world were all, when comparatively it is nothing.
- The World Will End Tony Reinke
The world will end. So kill sin. Pray with a clear head. Forgive quickly. Love eagerly. Open your home. Engage your gifts. (1 Pet. 4:7–11)
- Borrow a Song from Tomorrow Charles Spurgeon
Is there nothing to sing about today? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be.
- Comfort on a Dying Bed Thomas Brooks
Certainly happiness lies not in those things that cannot comfort a man upon a dying bed. Is it honors, riches, or friends that can comfort thee when thou comest to die? …
- The flowers beneath the mower’s hand Isaac Watts
Like flowery fields the nations stand Pleased with the morning light; The flowers beneath the mower’s hand Lie withering ere ‘tis night.