Contributed by Dana Chau on Apr 21, 2002
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BY LIFE OR BY DEATH
John Piper, in his book, Future Grace, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer called mycosis fungoides, which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 15, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: BY LIFE OR BY DEATH
John Piper, in his book, “Future Grace”, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life three years
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Baptist
Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 7, 2012
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
It's good to remember what stories you have told so that they don't come back to haunt you.
A young man's boss asked him, "Boy, do you believe in life after death?"
"Yes, sir," the young man answered.
The boss said, "Well that's good, because about a
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 20, 2011
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
A boss asked one of his employees, "Do you believe in life after death?"
"Yes, sir," replied the new employee.
"I thought you would," said the boss. "Yesterday after you left to go to your
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 28, 2003
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"...both life and death are parts of the same Great
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Belief In Life After Death, like the existence of God, is widely embraced by American adults. According to a new Barna Research poll 81% believe in an afterlife of some sort. Another 9% say they are not certain. Just 10% contend there is no form of life after death. 79% agree, “Every person has a
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 10, 2015
Robin Norwood in her book, “Why Me? Why This? Why Now?” writes, “A very wise old fried of mine who has just celebrated his 100th birthday said to me about a recent news broadcast he recently heard about 73 people losing their lives in a plan crash: “Don’t they know we can’t lose our lives? We can
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Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 24, 2012
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IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?
In Randy Alcorn’s book In Light of Eternity he imagines two twins having a conversation in their mother’s womb. “You know,” one says, “there’s a whole world out there--grassy meadows and snowy mountains, splashing streams and waterfalls, horses and dogs and cats and
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IN LATE WINTER DURING THE FIFTY-NINTH YEAR of his life, John Donne braved the weather and rough roads of the English countryside to keep his final preaching engagement before the king in London. He had spent most of that winter, what would be his last, battling “consumption,” and on several
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Light and dark.
Sweet or sour
Big and small
Each alone
But only understood together
Life and death-
When one begins
Each begins.
The baby’s first cry
Echoes tears of the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 28, 2012
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In Psalm 23, death is described as casting a shadow. Let’s look at that for a moment.
Have you ever been enjoying a nice sunny day when all of a sudden a dark cloud hides the sun? All of a sudden you’re in this shadow!
What does the shadow do? It hides the light. It makes it more difficult to
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Holiness
Contributed by Jim Luthy on May 16, 2001
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Paul Stevens wrote, "In marriage, death and life interpenetrate, as crucifixion and resurrection are eternally joined. Married persons are literally buried into each other, physically, emotionally and spiritually, losing themselves
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"There is now set before us life and good, death and evilBut if our hearts shall turn away so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jun 3, 2009
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark
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Pentecostal