Death and Dying (164)
  1. “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.
  2. In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.
  3. Death is never natural. Death is abnormal. Death is not human. Death is the enemy.
  4. This is why a Christian must keep learning to forget himself so long as he lives.
  5. The only churches that live are churches that have died. That still die. And that rise to newness of life in Christ’s life alone.
  6. One thing that makes John different than the other three Gospels is the absence of the Lord’s Supper.
  7. For every child in a mother’s womb, the whole host of heaven and earth, indeed God himself, intercedes.
  8. In Christ we are already dead to sin and the eternal consequences of sin. “There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,” writes Paul (Romans 8:1).
  9. On episode SEVENTEEN of Let the Bird Fly! Wade breaks out on his own providing an expanded discussion of his blog post Beware the Fearmonger.
  10. The only recourse we have is to die before we die. To give up on a fake-life. To acknowledge that this stupid, selfish game we’re playing with our immortality projects has zero success.
  11. The fact is no one dies with dignity.
  12. I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.
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