By Bereavement is the nice word for the intense loss felt when someone close to you has died. Words fail us when at the death-bed of a loved one. Our prayers in those initial moments of bereavement seem equally impossible of verbal expression. But that is where the Spirit of God
Getting up after Great Loss
The best moments in King David’s life read like a perfect Biblical Counselling story. That is because the best moments in King David’s life were the moment where he dealt with the great troubles of life in an outstandingly Godly way. One of the most striking “perfect Biblical Counselling stories”
Glimmers of Hope in Genealogies of Death
Curiosity is the mother of all learning, and that is certainly true in your reading of God’s Written Word. It is often the most unexpected chapters in Scripture that fill us with a sense of meaning and purpose in this life. Genesis chapter 5 is one of those chapters. From
Death From a Godly Point of View
The death of someone close to you is part of life in this fallen world. It is appointed for man to die, and all do. Yet, the godly, who understand this reality better than all the faithless put together, do not despair. The anxious pleas for a life that is
Dead People Tell No Tales
Used as a way to protect themselves from being betrayed, criminals justify the killing of a possible traitor with the statement “dead men tell no tales”. That is certainly true: dead people cannot tell of all your evil deeds. In Psalm 30, King David uses the same concept of “dead
Your dying displays Christ’s life
The sufferings of this world makes us realise that this life is often more a process of dying than an exercise in living. Our bodies are not immortal, and sickness, pain, and weakness confirms that fact for us each day. Though we have great joy in the joy-filled and successful
Living, to die, so we can worship
Do you have a plan to die? Probably not, since death is considered more of an inevitable end than a purposeful end. The Apostle Paul, however, planned to die. Not in the sense of suicide or euthanasia, but in the sense of living with a post-death purpose. He revealed his plan to die in these words.
Courage to die
Paul’s plan to die was to increase the worship of Heaven, but that did not make Paul callous to the earthly process of dying. He is a man who was much afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down by the suffering of this life. Paul’s plan to die included courage—courage enough to
Dying but Escaping Death
Death is inevitable ever since sin entered the world in Genesis 3. On the other end of God’s revelation to man, we read this: … Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. … The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’