Tag: dying well
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Years ago, a friend was dying of inoperable cancer. Shortly after his terminal diagnosis, he expressed repentant faith and became a follower of Jesus. I went to visit him in the hospital and he asked if I knew where the Bible talked about the resurrection of believers. I said yes,…
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“I regret that we resuscitated Mr. W. J. Turner. He was a little old man, aged further by the cancer that had invaded his bones and lungs and brain. He had eluded death for so long that his daughters had begun to whisper of his immortality. They believed, or so…
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(This is an extract from my forthcoming book.) Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch early in the Second Century. Eusebius of Caesarea, whose History of the Church is the primary historical source up to 324, reports that Ignatius’s arrest and transport to Rome for martyrdom in the Roman arena…
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The title of the book is Memento Mori, Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well. Memento Mori is latin for “Remember You Must Die”. The medieval church used this phrase to emphasize to the church the transitory nature of life in this fallen world and the need…
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This is the account of a hospice doctor in Montana (Ira Byock, MD) who was privileged to attend the dying of a woman of great faith . . . who died well. Very well. This is the kind of death that is available for those in Christ. He recounts this…
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Here is a link to the audio of the summary of the “Dying Well” class that the senior pastor asked me to give to the church-at-large last summer after he heard feedback from those participating in the first trial class. I will be offering a repeat of the class with an…
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The early Christians lived countercultural lives that got the attention of the Roman Empire. Aristides argued in 125 AD in his apology to the emperor Hadrian that Christians were the empire’s best citizens. But they didn’t just live better . . . they also died better. They died well and…
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The sixth principle is to plan like you will live to a ripe old age, but live like you will die tomorrow. Be willing to die whenever Christ calls you into his presence. Jesus described this eternal mindset as daily dying for Him: “If any of you wants to be…
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+ Ars Moriendi, death, dying to the world, dying well, living well, living will, medicalization of death, Mors Improvisa, sacred secular, sanctification+
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The fourth principle to dying well is to partake of the Lord’s Supper. The fifth principle is to relieve your loved ones of difficult decisions. If Christ’s death is so central to Christianity, then the thankful celebration of that death, as instituted by Christ Himself, is profoundly important. “Since the…
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Here is the third principle for Christians to die well – Die to the World. At the moment that we exercise repentant faith, we positionally die with Christ and become a new creation – we experience justification For we died and were buried with Christ (symbolized by baptism). And just…
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Christian Apologetics 