The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death – 1 Corinthians 15:26
In this life we face many daunting foes: temptation, grief, discouragement, fear (to name just a few). But none has proven so devastatingly indestructible as death itself.
As children of God, we have all known what it is to fight against sorrow, to war […]
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me – Psalm 23:4
We read in yesterday’s devotion that God is with us even to our old age. The psalmist takes it a step further with the assurance “though I walk through the valley […]
Whether…the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours – 1 Corinthians 3:22
What a strange thing to say. How can Paul claim with a straight face that everything—even death—has been given to God’s people and belongs to them?
It certainly does not feel as though the world belongs to […]
Jesus wept – John 11:35
This verse is famous for being the shortest verse in the Bible. But it deserves our attention for reasons much more significant than that. What a scene! The eternal, unchanging, immovable God-in-the-flesh Jesus, weeping in front of the tomb of a friend.
How mysterious a scene this is. And yet there are […]
Ruth Huffman — my precious, hospitable, loving, mighty, hymn-singing grandmother — passed away last week on September 27, 2010. Because of personal illness, I was unable to attend her funeral. So my attempt at some small epitaph comes in the form of a poem Ruth wrote on March 16, 1976, as she flew from Fiji […]
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