Tag: death
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There is an interesting account in the gospel of Luke 49-56: While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more.” But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.” And when…
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In 1979, Air New Zealand was conducting commerical sight-seeing flights to the Antarctic. In November, the final flight of the season, flight 901 crashed in Antarctica in what is known as the “Mount Erebus disaster”, killing everyone onboard (257 people). There is a video here detailing what happened, including actual…
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(From my coming book) For nineteen centuries, Christian apologists were not reluctant to use death in their arguments for the faith. It is instructive to briefly survey the historical apologetic writings of the church. The certitude of death makes it a powerful apologetic that speaks to everyone. The historical church…
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In Romans 1, Paul warns of the consequences of rejecting truth. In Col 2:8, he warns of being taken captive by deceit. In 2 Thess 2:13-19 he warns of deception because people refuse to love the truth. In our world with instant global communication technology, deceit spreads easily and rapidly.…
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The mid-twentieth-century chaplain of the United States Senate, Peter Marshall, might best be known for his telling of the legend of the merchant of Baghdad. The story goes like this: A merchant sends his servant down to the market. The servant quickly returns. He is agitated and frightened. He says…
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From my coming book . . . The original Ars Moriendi warns “for men seek sooner and busier after medicines for the body than for the soul.” This is even more true six centuries later with the wonders of modern medicine. There is nothing new under the sun. Ars Moriendi…
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From my coming book that is about 2/3 complete . . . In 1519 at the Dawn of the Reformation, Martin Luther published a sermon entitled “A Sermon on Preparing to Die.” Luther released it in response to a parishioner who could not shake his fear of death. In it…
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Christian Apologetics 