All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died – Genesis 5:27
Has history taught us any lesson more clearly or convincingly than that death is inevitable? Even for Methuselah there would finally be a 970th year that he would not see: despite his unique longevity, his remarkable story would […]
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 […]
Read more »A friend, and member of our church, recently lost a child through miscarriage. When I read the poem she wrote in memorial, I was touched and edified myself and was confident it would bless many of you as well.
I share it with her permission:
DEAREST LITTLE
CHILD…
Someday I’ll hold you
while angels ‘round us sing
Someday I’ll rock you
as […]
As Lasserre Bradley mentioned in his recent blog post, our readers and listeners have been expressing their abounding joy at the overcoming power of Jesus Christ over death, in response to the March issue of the Baptist Witness on that subject.
With that in mind, I was touched by this brief biographical video of a 33-year-old […]
We have been receiving an unusually strong and enthusiastic response to the current issue of the Baptist Witness, the theme of which is “Comfort One Another With These Words” and deals with the subject of death and loss.
Many people–who are either facing death themselves, or have lost loved ones–have expressed what a blessing and comfort […]
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