Tag Archives: Death

Dying to Live

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Jeff Block

We avoid pain because … We don’t really understand what it means to follow Jesus Jesus said the most profound and disruptive things, including: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily … Continue reading →

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On Life

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Jeff Block

People get just about everything backwards. It’s one of our strongest “gifts”. Maybe “propensities” would be a better word. As a broken and sinful people, we have the seriously unfortunate tendency to call light “darkness” and up “down”. We call … Continue reading →

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On Death

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Jeff Block

The eternal God gave us life. “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2:7). In the beginning, we … Continue reading →

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The Next Unique Me

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Jeff Block

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be … Continue reading →

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The Love of God… Is Stronger Than Death

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Jeff Block

“And Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and  the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die,  yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.’” — John 11:25-26 ESV “Why do you … Continue reading →

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