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Don't Look for Yourself

Look for yourself and you will find in the long run hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and ...


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Life in the Waiting Room

In One Church from the Fence, Wes Seelinger writes: "I have spent long hours in the intensive care waiting room ... watching with anguished people ...


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Where I Want to Die

I've heard pastors say, "I want to die in the pulpit." Well, as for me, I want to die in bed. I don't think it's any gift to the ...


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The End Colors Everything

It was a hot day--Tuesday, July 20, 1993, in Washington, D.C.--as Vincent Foster sat in the Rose Garden. That morning he watched as President Clinton ...


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The Narrow Way

The Christian way is not the middle way between extremes, but the narrow way between precipices.


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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?


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All the Wrong Questions

The ultimate questions people of our day are asking are these: What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose behind my life and my destiny? What questions ...


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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.


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Child's Perspective on Death

My 4-year-old granddaughter and I were talking one day about death. Her grandfather has cancer and I wanted to prepare her for the inevitable. She didn't ...


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No Infinity in This Life

At 65 one is not merely 20 years older than one was at 45. One has exchanged an infinite future--and one had a tendency to look upon it as infinite--for ...


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