TOPIC INDEXDeath and Dying (24)

  1. Fighting the Leviathans of Sin and Death

    book
    01/21/20
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    One moment, we pray for our rescue from sin and death. The next moment, we beg our Father to do unto others what we hope he will never do to us.

  2. Remember Your Death

    book
    10/21/19
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    So long as we entrust death to Jesus, new life is ours. He has lunch ready and he is waiting for us in the power of his resurrection.

  3. Something More Powerful than Pain and Death

    book
    08/20/19
    6 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Jesus doesn’t talk about God’s love for us; he embodies it.

  4. Pain is Our Birthright

    book
    07/30/19
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Pain is our birthright, but Jesus’ resurrection is our irrevocable end.

  5. Death, Be Not Proud...

    book
    07/23/19
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Death can make us feel like tourists or strangers traveling across the landscape of someone else’s life.

  6. Jesus is the Death of death

    book
    11/20/18
    10 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Where Jesus says, “She’s not dead, she’s sleeping,” death dies.

  7. There is Only One Who is Permanent

    book
    11/14/18
    10 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    When our mind betrays us, our body fails us, and our soul can’t be comforted, our Jesus now saves us.

  8. Jesus Opens Us

    book
    09/18/18
    9 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Jesus opened our ears and mouth when He baptizes us. Jesus put His fingers into our ears, speaks to us, and washes our sins away.

  9. To Me, to Live Is Christ, And to Die Is Gain

    book
    04/03/18
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    His consolation will accompany us in the midst of sickness and death. He will strengthen us, even strengthen us to carry the cross of old age.

  10. Dying Is Greater Than Fighting

    book
    02/15/18
    12 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    “The strongest person in the room doesn't win the fight," she said, "it’s whoever's the meanest…” I was fifteen years old when my aunt taught me that.

  11. A Nap Before Dinner

    book
    09/12/17
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    This is why a Christian must keep learning to forget himself so long as he lives.

  12. Reconnecting Through My Father's Ghosts

    book
    01/05/16
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.