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Pandemics, conflicts, and crises have increased suffering, death, and loss worldwide. The growing phenomenon of online interactions by the bereaved with the online presence of their deceased loved ones has recently come to the attention of caring professionals. Many questions emerge. How do we understand and respond to digital memorialization? What do we make of digital identities and continuing bonds? How can we engage with digital bereavement communities?...
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When my wife passed away four days before Christmas in 2017 I was devastated. Mary and I had a challenging, exciting and adventurous life together for over 53 years, traveling the globe and finding success in a number of careers. But suddenly she was gone.
I had lost my identity and purpose. I cried out:
"What now, Lord?"
"Why am I still here?"
"What do you have in store for me now?"
And over the ensuing months God began to show me that, although...
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Is there convincing evidence for eternal life after death? If so, what will our experience be like? What will it be like to see God face to face?
In this five-session video study (streaming included), Lee Strobel-journalist and award-winning author of The Case for Christ-turns his talent for investigation on the biblical and logical case for an afterlife.
The reality of death shapes our lives and faith. Most of us fear it or try not to think about...
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an't Nothing Bring Me Down is the memoir of 101-year-old, world-record-holding runner Ida Keeling. Miss Ida, as she's known throughout her Bronx community, isn't your typical runner. Her fierce independence helped her through the Depression and the Civil Rights movement. But her greatest trials were yet to come.Ida's two sons were brutally murdered. Justice was never found. Ida felt like she didn't have the strength to carry on and she couldn't hope...
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Have you ever wondered how a dead person can come back to life? Have you wondered if there could somehow be a virus that turns humans into beings hungry for the blood of living beings? Would you know what to do if a zombie apocalypse breaks out? Read on… For decades, zombies have caused us amazement, fear and curiosity due to their strange, rare and unknown nature. Zombies worry us because they show us all the degradation that we can reach. In this...
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When you feel God has abandoned you...
When your life just does not make sense...
When you have unsatisfied soul desires...
You need answers. You need healing!
You have taken the metaphoric red pill; this will lead you down the rabbit hole into darkness first and then to light. Your journey in the darkness or your suffering process is your Dark Night of the Soul.
Most of the great beings in our history who have a positive legacy have a story of suffering...
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One day you and the rest of your close relatives will lose a dear close and important family member like your mother, grandmother or that uncle or aunt that was so loving, entertaining and supportive.And like so many time after they pass away the generations of your family, especially the young family members, will ask you questions about the personal details of their lives in which you won't have answers for like:When she was a child, what was the...
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A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide.
After years of battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard-a theatre scholar and actor-stages Auggie's life in a series of vivid and tender scenes: Auggie's insatiable hunger for Accelerated Reader points. His tireless...
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How does anyone survive losing a child to suicide, let alone grieve with hope? Where is God in our suffering? How does God take evil and turn it to good? Broken Butterflies: Emerging Through Grief , A Suicide Survivor's Poetic Journal answers in a mother's unique, passionate, voice:
●Love God and others who suffer, with your whole heart
●God mourns with you, gives comfort, and declares, "Death, where is thy sting!"
●God transforms you into head-turning...
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In this rich book Matthew Levering explores nine key virtues that we need to die (and live) well: love, hope, faith, penitence, gratitude, solidarity, humility, surrender, and courage.
Retrieving and engaging a variety of biblical, theological, historical, and medical resources, Levering journeys through the various stages and challenges of the dying process, beginning with the fear of annihilation and continuing through repentance and gratitude,...
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Adrift in an ocean of pain and confusion. Sorrow and pain are my ever-present companions. My life's path is a winding road to where? The work of salvation has been accomplished through the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. There is a process of salvation, all the events of life leading up to faith in Christ. This book of poetry is a journey capturing the emotions, the questions, and the struggles of life on the redemption road resulting...
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A Different Kind of Grief: When Eternal Hope is Unsure walks through the valley with those who are deeply mourning the loss of a loved one. For most Christians, we can mourn with eternal hope. But what if the one lost did not claim the name of Christ? How can a believer mourn in hope when the one lost may be eternally so? Emmie Seals gently walks her readers from the despair of the initial loss into the hope that is only found in Christ Jesus. With...
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There's Healing After Hurt is a story written from the authors point of view, detailing the raw emotions and breakthroughs she experienced while grieving the loss of her daughter, Jayla. She shares her true, unfiltered journey from broken to wholeness, realized through her personal relationship with God.
The true story tells all the roller coaster of emotions endured and overcome to reach healing after the life changing hurt of her unsuspected and...
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Death seems to come when we least expect it. It is almost, always premature and makes us take a hard look at who we now are without that person or persons in our lives. If you have ever missed an opportunity to say goodbye to someone you love or thank, them for the lessons they, taught you then, follow Lydia through the grief, process at several different times, in her life.
The unexpected lessons or revelations she learns are ones that we can all...
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This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner.
Many of the poems are autobiographical:...
696) Dying To Live
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Death is certain for all of us, but it is the one thing we avoid thinking about. Our views on death and loss influences our lives in no small way. Dying to Live is about Godly principles that equip you to overcome the fear of death. Death is not the end. It's just the beginning of life.
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"Minute by Minute recounts the reality of consciously choosing to trust God in the midst of raw agony. Just when it seems that hope has vanished, God sweeps in and supernaturally heals Joanne in a moment. Her story if one of faith, hope, and triumphant victory over death. Once a trained athlete in peak condition, Joanne Moody suffered a post-pregnancy injury that sidelined her for the next 14 years. Not one to give up easily, Joanne fought to find...
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If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death-the moment when the heart stops beating and brain stem activity ceases-is not necessarily the end of consciousness, as a number of doctors are now beginning...
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More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And she sat by the bedside of her dying father, thinking,...
700) I Almost Died
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Have you ever had a near-death encounter? Perhaps you have seen glimpses of heaven or hell. "I Almost Died," is a book collaboration by Kimberly Moses and eight co-authors. They will share their life-changing testimonies that will cause you to gain a greater appreciation of life. Each author brings a unique perspective about life, health, death, and eternity. People die every day, but not many are blessed with another chance at life to share their...
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