Dignity is not Enough: Thinking Biblically About Assisted Dying
By Amy Mantravadi
06/26/25
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Dignity is not Enough: Thinking Biblically About Assisted Dying

I always imagined dying a faithful death for Christ would mean burning at the stake. Now, I suspect it will mean dying in my bed of natural causes.
Sigh, Cry, and Be Still
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
06/25/25

Sigh, Cry, and Be Still

How many times in our lifetime must we sigh, floundering through this world with our sins, sorrows, struggles, frustrations, fears, and foes?
Modern Israel and Biblical Israel: What’s the Difference?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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Modern Israel and Biblical Israel: What’s the Difference?

Is modern Israel the heir of the promises and covenant God made with ancient Israel?

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Our crucified Lord makes it clear that the widow’s worthless giving was far greater than a million dollars because she gave all she had.
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Salvation Is Not A Possibility

Assurance of salvation may be the single greatest struggle people have confessed to me. It isn't surprising.
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Lies

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Ted Rosenbladt
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The Great Physician’s Bedside Manner

This Jesus healed the blind and the lame and the mute and the barren and raised the dead.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
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He Did Not Change the World By Making His Bed.

When it comes to this world, our beds are most often a mess even when we do our best to make them in the morning.
Larry D. Hughes
Larry D. Hughes
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The Death of Death

There in that moment, the waters of baptism reached down deep into the forsaken path of the grave with a man whose body and mind could no longer hold onto any reality otherwise.
Jessica Delgado
Jessica Delgado
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On Being A Good Christian

I don’t know about you, but I am perpetually of the mind that God is disappointed in me.
Joel Hess
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Only Christ Treats Us Like Human Beings

Some lie and tell us that to sin is to be ourselves. But it is not. Sin is not natural to humanity.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
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For most of my Christian experience I was taught and I taught others that church was primarily a place to go to serve, to use your gifts, to bless others.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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Seven Words for Us Meddling Christians

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Steven A. Hein
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God’s Last Word

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No Other God Than The Crucified God

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