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Isn't it amazing how God works in our lives! On a Saturday night several weeks ago, this pastor was working late, and decided to call his wife before he left for home. It was about 10:00 PM, but his wife didn't answer the phone. The pastor let it ring many times. He thought it was odd that she didn't…

If a man is in business, it is not necessary that he should commit forgery in order to fail; he can fail by simply neglecting his business. If a man is sick, he need not commit suicide by taking poison; he can do it just as surely by neglecting to take proper medicines. So is it in the things of God.…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

One out of four Americans between 18 and 24 said they had considered suicide during the pandemic, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among respondents of all ages, 40 percent reported suffering from mental or behavioral health issues related to the pandemic, including…

Chris Arnade is a self proclaimed atheist. He quit his job as a Wall Street analyst to document the stories of people he met in his New York neighborhood. He authored a book about his conversations. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America.(Sentinel 2019) Back row is Arnade’s way of describing those…

A life wracked with teenage angst and the horrors that await many in the trials of the modern American High School is the setting for the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, which has been made into a Netflix Series by the same name. Hannah Baker has done the unthinkable; she has ended her own life, rather than…

Desmond Amofah, also known as Etika, was a star on YouTube. The subject of his final video was suicide. Talking about social media he said, “It can give you an image of what you want your life to be and get blown completely out of proportion. It consumed me.” Soon thereafter police found his body in…

Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from the Netherlands, was sexually assaulted at a school party when she was 11 and raped by two men at age 14. She began to struggle with anorexia and depression and was placed in a group home for mentally ill children, where her condition worsened. She stopped eating…

In June 2018, Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef, committed suicide. With his death, many other celebrities expressed their sadness and the full-range of his influence. Although the cause for his suicide is not clear, Bourdain is known to have battle many addictions, and many believed that the world…

In March of 2017 Netflix began a series named 13 Reasons Why. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health claim that it is a show that glorifies suicide. The researchers found a 28.9 percent increase in suicide deaths among Americans ages 10-17 in the month after the debut of the show and…

Mateusz Fijalkowski, 23 decided it was time to end it all. He attempted to drown himself in a Virginia swimming pool. Police officers rescued him but Fialkowski is suing the officers, not for saving him, but for not saving him soon enough. He is grateful to police officers who rescued him after he tried…

In 2018, the high profile suicide of designer Kate Spade brought focused attention on the disturbing rise of suicide in our culture. The number of suicides among female teens rose 70% between 2010 and 2016 hitting a 40-year high in 2015. As we continue to look for reasons and answers, one element rises…

In 1998, Randy Howell won a fishing tournament with a first place prize of $100,000. He says that at a recognition event, he was feeling a bit prideful when a friend confided in Randy that things weren't going well in his life. Howell mentioned getting together to talk later but never followed up. Later,…

Attorney General William Barr speaking at the University of Notre Dame, talked about “militant secularists” who he says are seeking to destroy America’s “traditional moral order” by driving Judeo-Christian values from schools, government agencies, and “the public square.” Barr said that this secularism,…

A review of several studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirms what many parents feared about the potentially harmful impact of social media. The reviews stated the teenagers who spend less time socializing in person and have easy access to online information about suicide…

In a lonely hospital room where doctors were testing him for a possible heart attack, Bernie received a visit from a local pastor. Before the pastor left the room, Bernie repented of his sins and professed faith in Jesus Christ. Bernie Carbo was Major League Baseball’s rookie of the year in 1970. He…

Dutch officials last year allowed doctors to prescribe a lethal injection of drugs to a woman in her 20’s who was a child sex abuse victim and wished to die. The woman suffered abuse between the ages of 5 and 15. “She had developed post-traumatic stress disorder, severe anorexia, chronic depression,…

On October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25am, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He instructed all of the adults and young boys to leave, but held the remaining ten girls hostage. Sensing what was to come, one of the girls offered…

According to the Center for Disease Control, since 1999 the suicide rate increased about 1 percent each year before accelerating to 2 percent annually from 2006 to 2014. Suicide increased among all age groups. Besides economic troubles, the increased “social isolation” due to family breakdown and divorce…

In the first 8 months of 2017, 83 children have detonated suicide bombs around the world. Most of these children were girls, and terrorists forced most of them to carry out the bombings. Unthinkable! How can parents hate others so much that they are willing to sacrifice their children’s lives to kill…

Gareth Clark is an army veteran who lives in northern England. Over the last two years he has saved the lives of four people. At a gas station, he resuscitated a heart attack victim. He stopped a suicidal woman from jumping from an overpass. He has saved two drowning people from the same spot at a local…

The California legislature has passed, and the governor has signed an “End of life Act” legalizing assisted suicide. On the same day it was signed the Southern Medical Journal published a study connecting physician-assisted suicide with an increase in overall suicide rates. Since assisted suicide became…

In the culture wars it looks like the church is losing. Our culture is moving further from Biblical morality. In its annual Values and Beliefs survey, the Gallup polling organization found that record percentages of U.S. adults believe it is morally acceptable to get divorced (73%), engage in opposite-sex…

When our lives drift away from a focus on God our lives pay the price by ending in a time, place and manner that we never intended. In March of 2015, a plane crashed in the German Alps. It seems that the Co-Pilot intentionally switched the autopilot on the doomed Germanwings plane to descend to 100 feet.…

The movie “Groundhog Day” tells the story of TV weatherman Phil Connors as he relived a single day over and over again. This lighthearted comedy sees Connors, played by Bill Murray, go from confused, to annoyed, to suicidal, to resigned, and finally to teachable. As the movie progresses, he finally learns…