Understanding human mortality: the long journey home
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Perspectives on grief during Lent
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Hope amidst sorrow: death, funerals, and the power of the Gospel
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Dressed for the wedding
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Today's devotional: never alone
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The Trash Removal That Saves Your Life - #5957
You can't get rid of your sin by earning it, by doing good things. You can't inherit God's forgiveness from a Christian family or pick it up by osmosis from just being around Christian things your whole life. Your only hope of getting clean, of getting to heaven, is the cleansing power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Not Christianity. Jesus.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-trash-removal-that-saves-your...
Should Christians Support the Death Penalty?
Capital punishment is considered only in the most extreme of cases, and even then, it’s rarely used. Despite its infrequent use, is the death penalty something Christians should support?
http://gospel.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/26/should-christians-support-the-death-penalty/
Age of accountability - a Christian perspective
The Bible never gives an explicit indication that there is such a thing as the age of accountability--the age at which a child is responsible for their faith; however, we're given indications throughout that God has a plan and a purpose for every child. It seems cruel and not in keeping with God's especial declarations concerning children to think that just because a child died before personally professing their faith they would be condemned.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%2012:22-23&version=NIV
Absent from the body - a Christian perspective
Death isn't the end for followers of Christ--in fact, it's just a hurdle beyond which lies eternal life with Christ. Christians should live at all times as if they're completely ready and prepared for death.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205:8&version=KJV
Paving Over It - #2573
The biggest problem of all - the sin that haunts our past, poisons our present, and threatens our future. Covering it will not work - removing it will. Only Jesus can do that. He's waiting for you to ask Him to.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/paving-over-it-2573
Fear of death - a Christian perspective
Without Jesus Christ and the hope of eternal life, our lives would be ruled by a fear of death. But Jesus has triumphed over death; it is no longer the ultimate end of life, and it no longer hangs over everything we do and think.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%202:14-15&version=NIV
Life On Death Row - #2942
God says condemned people can go free - people sentenced to die can, in a moment, have that death penalty canceled and receive the gift of eternal life. How? By putting your total trust in Jesus - Who went to the cross as your substitute, dying your death penalty. In the moment you say, "Jesus, I'm Yours," you have "crossed over from death to life."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/life-on-death-ro...
The Last Monster In The Dark - #2500
Death, that last monster in the dark pursues us throughout our life, and we know it will ultimately catch us. But you don't ever need to fear that moment again - if you have your hand in the hand of Jesus, the One who has beaten that monster once and for all.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-last-monster...
What To Do With The Garbage - #2528
There is no reason to deal with the garbage of your life again. Not when Jesus Christ has shown you what to do with it. Bring all of that garbage up skull hill where it was already dealt with by Jesus, and leave it there.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/what-to-do-with-...
Sting - a Christian perspective
Death has lost its "sting"--its power--because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Death, physical or spiritual, is no longer a threat to Christians, or anything to be afraid of.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:55&version=NIV