Frequent contributor and blogwit, Paul LatOur, contributed this from Canada: A young fellow is out for a walk in small town out west and is struck by a vehicle and killed. The vehicle is not a car; it’s a helicopter that fell out of the sky, which also killed it’s three occupants. Who would ever
I post articles about sudden death every Monday to remind everyone that death can strike at anytime. My hope is that by posting these morbid little curiosities people will be spurred on to think about where they will go in eternity, Heaven or Hell. Also, these articles show how very creative God is when causing death.
America’s greatest theologian and philosopher, Jonathan Edwards, reminds us of these very things in his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Here’s a short excerpt where he explains the suddenness of death and the varities of ways in which we can die:
It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand. It is no security to a natural man, that he is now in health, and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger in any respect in his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world in all ages, shows this is no evidence, that a man is not on the very brink of eternity, and that the next step will not be into another world. The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable.
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the beating death of his mother, a 58-year-old resident of Highland Park, authorities said. Jehad Ramzi Razack was apprehended and held in lieu of $1-million bail. His mother, whose name has been withheld by police was found by a family friend at her home. —L.A. Times,
A West Covina woman who was on the phone talking with 911 dispatchers about a possible burglary was shot and killed, apparently while the crime was in progress, Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ officials said. The victim, whom authorities described as a “female Asian adult,” was pronounced dead at the scene. “It was perfectly obvious that
Canada—The floor of a church filled with about 1000 people, mostly teens, collapsed during a concert, injuring at least 40 people, one of them seriously. The youths were at the Central Heights Church in Abbotsford, British Columbia, to hear the Christian rock band Starfield when a large area in front of the stage gave way.