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End of Life Issues

6-Week Study: Faithfully Facing Dying

Click here for the study guides to the UCC's 6-week session "Faithfully Facing Dying." This is a resource you use for your own reflection, or you could gather some friends for discussion. Here is a description from their website:

"Issues surrounding death and dying are not easy to engage in a death-denying culture. As people of faith we grapple with them to insure that transition to another stage of eternal life is as peaceful as possible for those who are dying and for those who love them. We know that God is present in both our living and our dying; therefore we are comforted in difficult times."

 

Scriptures of Comfort

The Bible is a great place to find comfort when you are struggling with questions about the end of life, but sometimes it is hard to know where to start. Click the passages below to read scriptures that deal with death, grief, and afterlife.

Psalm 23

Psalm 121

Psalm 139

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

John 11:1-44

John 14:1-7

Romans 8:18-39

Romans 14:8-9

1 Corinthians 15:1-58

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11

Philippians 1:20-26

Philippians 3:20-21

1 Peter 1:3-9

Revelation 21:1-4