no regrets
Take a guess: What do you think are the top five regrets of the dying? A palliative nurse listed her findings in a book. Here they are:
with the Lord
Everyone wants to know what heaven will be like, and over the past several years a spate of books have promised to tell them. Don Piper was first with his 90 Minutes in Heaven. Following that bestseller, The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven and Heaven Is for Real were published and enthusiastically received by readers. One book went in the opposite direction—literally—23 Minutes in Hell.
faith and fear
Death scares me. I love my life, and I don’t want it to end. There’s also a part of me that wonders what the afterlife is really like. What if it’s different from what the Bible says?
Some people might think that my fears are unchristian and a threat to my faith. On the contrary, I think that they’re not…
a better place
There is a myth that is common in Christian as well as non-Christian circles: People who die always go to a better place. I have been to funerals of individuals who were said to have gone to "that better place"—but I knew they were not in a better place. These are called funeral assurances, words of comfort that assure and…
