Don't Ignore Small Snakes

For eight years Sally had been the Romero family pet. When they got her, she was only one foot long. But Sally grew until eventually she reached eleven-and-a-half ...

The Greatest Victory

0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory? This is so true that even Satan cannot deny it. Christ's resurrection and victory over ...

Glorious Paradox

We live and die. Christ died and lived!

A Purifying Wind

Socrates mastered the art of dying; Christ overcame death as "the last enemy" (1 Corinthians 15:26). There is a real difference between the ...

The Importance of Concentration

Warren Bennis, in Why Leaders Can't Lead, writes:

The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world's greatest family of aerialists and tightrope walkers. ...

Preaching to the Dying

Andrew Meekens, an elder in the International Evangelical Church of Addis Ababa, was one of those who died on November 23, 1996, when a hijacked jet ran ...

Home Before Dark

When I started out as a boy preaching, Father went along. Then when I got old enough to go by myself, he'd meet me at the little railroad station in ...

The Hope of Dying

George Palmer said before he died, "I'm homesick for heaven." It's the hope of dying that has kept me alive this long.

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Living in the Presence of Death

Philip Yancey tells of a painting in the Prado Museum in Spain by Hans Baldung titled "The Stages of Life with Death." On the ground is a newborn ...