Did OT Believers Go to Sheol?
Reposted, with permission, from DBTS blog.
Why Do Dying Men Call for “Mama?”
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“Not always, but often, very often, I will hear someone in their last moments move from talking about various loved ones to crying out for a mother. And, like this article notes, the call is usually with a name of familiarity, of ‘Mama’ or ‘Mommy.’” - Russel Moore
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What Will They Do When I'm Gone?
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“Not only is my children’s need for God greater than their need for me, my need for God is greater than my need for my children.” - Ref 21
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Making end-of-life decisions: The problems with advance directives
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“[M]any advance directives create a presumption in favor of death and efficiency (and an all-out avoidance of suffering) over the sanctity of human life.” -CPost
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Life Is Not ‘Meaningless’ in Ecclesiastes
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“Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End is by David Gibson, minister of Trinity Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s a poignant and powerful exposition of the message of Ecclesiastes.” - TGC
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Christians Get to Grieve, Too
A while ago I went to visit a man whose wife had died. It was a cold winter day in Maine as I drove up to the ancient farmhouse overlooking a frozen lake in a largely unknown small town in rural Maine. For anyone reading this who is not from Maine, let me tell you that he fit the quintessential image of a Mainer. He sported a thick white beard and his skin was leathered and toughened by the harsh Maine winters and years of working outside.
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All Fun and No Funerals Makes Jack a Dumb Boy
Death is an occasion and funeral homes are a place marked by much sadness and grief. And yet, according to Holy Scripture, there is something potentially beneficial about such an occasion and such a place. As the writer of Ecclesiastes puts it, “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting” (7:2 NIV). To paraphrase, “Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties” (NLT). Why would the Bible make such an assertion? What is this passage teaching us?
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Two Lessons from Two Radically Different Funerals
By Jordan Standridge. Reposted from The Cripplegate.
Funerals are a gift from God. I know that sounds crazy, but they are a God-given tool to force us to reflect on the brevity of life, and how finite we are as human beings. I truly do believe that humans should attend as many funerals as possible during their lives. It is that good for your soul.
I had the privilege of attending two recently, and they could not have been more different from each other.
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