I really appreciate the excellent work Nancy Guthrie has done in collecting the works of classic and contemporary writers on the themes of incarnation (for Christmas), the cross and resurrection (for Easter), and suffering (for all times before Christ’s return).
Her latest compilation is on what we work so hard to ignore but all will face: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go: Facing Death with Courageous Confidence in God.
In the following video we talk about the project, why she compiled it, how it affected her, and how she thinks it can be used:
The chapters and contributors are listed below:
Part One: A Reality That Will Not Be Denied
1 Only When You Know How to Die Can You Know How to Live
J. I. Packer
2 Death’s Sting Is Removed but Its Bite Remains
Michael S. Horton
3 He Called Death Sweet Names
John Piper
4 Not of the World
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
5 Is Christ Our Sickness-Bearer?
B. B. Warfield
6 Our Faith Is in God, Not in Healing
Joseph Bayly
Part Two: An Aim That Keeps Me Pressing On
7 Finishing with Few Regrets
Randy Alcorn
8 My Father Taught Me How to Die
R. C. Sproul
9 Spiritual Light Shining from Your Deathbed
Abraham Kuyper
10 A Witness in the Way We Die
John Eaves
11 Sickness: The Soul’s Undressing
Jeremy Taylor
Part Three: A Hope That Saves Me From Despair
12 Rubbing Hope into the Reality of Death
Timothy Keller
13 Hope Is a Glorious Grace
John Owen
14 Directions for a Peaceful Departure
Richard Baxter
15 What More Should God Do to Persuade You to Accept Death Willingly?
Martin Luther
16 Comfort against Fears of the Dying Hour
Thomas Boston
Part Four: A Future That Will Not Disappoint
17 Suffering Hurries the Heart toward Heaven
Joni Eareckson Tada
18 To Despise This Present Life
John Calvin
19 The Day of a Godly Man’s Death
Jonathan Edwards
20 Let Us Say in Dying, “Lord Jesus, Receive My Spirit”
R. L. Dabney
21 Those Who Die Daily Die Easily
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
22 God Reserves the Best for the Last
Richard Sibbes
