Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don't often see death up close. That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else's problem. It isn't.
Ignoring the certainty of death doesn't protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we're living now. But this avoidance can hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus's promises to us. So long as death remains remote and unreal, Jesus's promises will too.
But honesty about death brings hope to life. That's the ironic claim at the heart of this book. Cultivating "death-awareness" helps us bring the promises of Jesus from the hazy clouds of some other world into the everyday problems of our world—where they belong.
Top Highlights
“Your life is worth living, precisely because it is not your life at all. Your life—at least in this moral frame—has a beginning and an end. But your life—your real life—is hidden with Christ (Col. 3:3). That then gives you the freedom to lose your life in sacrifice to others, in obedience to God, in order to save it.” (source)
“come away from a book on mortality with a sense of clarity about what really matters—about who really matters” (source)
“the best way to enjoy your life is to get honest about your death.” (source)
“many of us can afford to live most of our lives as if death isn’t our problem” (source)
“Nothing lasts, good or bad. Except for one thing: the Word of the Lord” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
- Authors:
- McCullough, Matthew
- Moore, Russell
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9781433560569
Matt McCullough (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the pastor of Edgefield Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and the author of Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope.