Grave Talk: No Glib Comments

When people started fearing death in earnest, they stopped talking about it.

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Death Makes Things Matter More

In the movie Casualties of War, Michael J. Fox plays Private Erikson, a soldier in Vietnam who is part of a squad that abducts and rapes a young Vietnamese ...

Coming or Going?

A little boy was sitting in a Sunday school class, listening to his teacher describe how in the beginning of creation, God made mankind from the dust ...

Life Through Death

The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective.

Frozen in Greed

Clovis Chappell wrote in his book of sermons Feminine Faces:

"When Pompeii was being excavated, there was found a body that had been embalmed by the ...

Courage in the Face of Death

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Carried to Eternal Rest

I heard of a little lad named Kenny who developed leukemia. The disease progressed rapidly. Soon he was unable to go to school, then unable to go out ...

Death is Dead

When death stung Jesus Christ, it stung itself to death.

Dying Full of Life

It is a grand thing to see a man dying full of life. God makes his dying people to be like the sun, which never seems so large as when it sets.