Sermons and Biblical Studies

I everywhere teach that no one can be justly condemned and perish except on account of actual sin; and to say that the countless mortals taken from life while yet infants are precipitated from their mother’s arms into eternal death is a blasphemy to be universally detested. John Calvin

Once a man dies there is no resurrection. Aeschylus When once our brief light sets, there is one perpetual night through which we must sleep. Catullus There is hope for those who are alive, but those who have died are without hope. Theocritus As Adam’s spiritual life would have consisted in remaining united and bound … Continue reading “DEATH,
NON-CHRISTIAN VIEW OF”

See also: Bereavement; Dying; Grief; Life after death For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. The Bible, Genesis 3:19 kjv I am going the way of all the earth. The Bible, Joshua 23:14 kjv Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in … Continue reading “DEATH”

Deacons should be blameless in the presence of His righteousness, as deacons of God and Christ and not of men; not double-tongued, not lovers of money, temperate in all things, compassionate, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord who became a minister (deacon) of all. Polycarp

See also: Darkness The soul sees nothing but clouds and darkness. She seeks God, and cannot find the least marks or footsteps of His Presence Augustine Baker For first He not only withdraws all comfortable observable infusions of light and grace, but also deprives her [the soul] of a power to exercise any perceptible operations … Continue reading “DARK
NIGHT OF THE SOUL”

God’s people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day’s allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement. David Wells

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. Richard Lederer

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis

Believer, Christ Jesus presents you with your crosses, and they are no trivial gifts. C.H. Spurgeon

The preaching of the cross of Christ was the very center and heart of the message of the apostles, and there is nothing I know of that is more important than that every one of us should realize that this is still the heart and the center of the Christian message. M. Lloyd-Jones