Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.
~ Billy Graham
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
Cut out some of your “important social engagements,” and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you “blessed” [Proverbs 31:28].
In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.
Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!
If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.
The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization . . . it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.
If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.
How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come.
The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.
When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.
God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.
The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let’s exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith—an eternal home for the soul.
One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.
Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life—which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.
Christ’s second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ’s promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!
All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.
Death is not a trip, but a destination.
Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
What is heaven? It’s the home that God created and He possesses. His throne room is His headquarters from which He issues His commands, directions, and prophecies. And Jesus sits at His Father’s right hand.
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
