Last enemy

‘We should familiarise ourselves with death during our lifetime...’ (Martin Luther). ‘Look by faith to your dying, buried, risen, ascended, glorified Lord. Nothing will more powerfully overcome both the poison and the fears of death’ (Richard Baxter). ‘Suffering makes us want to go to heaven. Broken homes and broken hearts crush our illusions that earth can keeps its promises’ (Joni Erickson Tada). These quotations indicate something of the scope of this collection of short meditations on the theme of sickness, suffering and death.

Nick McQuaker