• The End of the Christian Life

  • How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live
  • By: J Todd Billings
  • Narrated by: Al Kessel
  • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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By: J Todd Billings
Narrated by: Al Kessel
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We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a distant reality - something that happens only at the end of a long life or to other people.

In The End of the Christian Life, J. Todd Billings urges Christians to resist that view. Instead, he calls us to embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith. This is the journey of genuine discipleship, Billings says, following the crucified and resurrected Lord in a world of distraction and false hopes.

Drawing on his experience as a professor and father living with incurable cancer, Billings offers a personal yet deeply theological account of the gospel's expansive hope for small, mortal creatures.

Artfully weaving rich theology with powerful narrative, Billings writes for church leaders and laypeople alike. Whether we are young or old, reeling from loss or clinging to our own prosperity, this book challenges us to walk a strange but wondrous path: in the midst of joy and lament, to receive mortal limits as a gift, an opportunity to give ourselves over to the Lord of life.

©2020 J. Todd Billings (P)2020 eChristian

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  • 10-12-20

Though provoking and very practical!

Amazing book!! It prepares us to live our life in a God glorifying way enjoying what he has put around us with the certain hope of all his people spending eternity with him!!!

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  • 06-08-21

Content good..let down by narration

Struggled to finish this one. The actual content was interesting but the narrator uses a sort of sing-song voice which was reminiscent of a PBS documentary. Just zoned out most of the time.