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Dying and Death: Getting Rightly Prepared for the Inevitable is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can any good come from thinking about death? Our natural tendency is to answer that question no! But what if our meditation on death was informed by a theological understanding of death, a recognition of the comfort Jesus’s death affords Christians, and ethical guidance for dealing with death in these complicated days of modern medical developments? Rather than being morbidly unhelpful, authors...

Death is not a debt to nature, but is God’s judgment upon sin. Rhode Island’s first attorney general, William Dyer (1609–c. 1677), wrote: “Were it not for sin, death had never had a beginning, and were it not for death, sin would never have had an ending.” The famous Puritan commentator, Matthew Henry (1662–1714), said, “Death is as due to a sinner as wages are to a servant.”1 Paul said it best of all: “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23).
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