‘The End of The Christian Life,’ with Dr. J. Todd Billings
Dr. J. Todd Billings returns to the show to discuss keeping hold of the goodness of God in face of the horrors of death.
How do people keep ahold of the goodness of God in the face of the horror of death? While there is no easy answer to such a question, Dr. J. Todd Billings—professor of Reformed theology at Western Theological Seminary and a terminal cancer patient himself—joins Matt, Derek, and Alastair to discuss his recent book, The End of The Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live. Listen in as Dr. Billings helps the cast and crew reflect on death, life, and what it means to be united in the death and life of our Lord.
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The Book of the Month is Dual Citizens: Politics and American Evangelicalism, a collection of articles from Christianity Today originally published between 1956 and 2016. Timothy D. Padgett has collected a number of articles that traces a variety of perspectives in evangelical political thought, giving a more nuanced understanding of how American evangelicals have acted politically over the past decades. For the month of October 2020, our listeners will get a 25% discount on their purchase of this volume with the code MEREFIDELITYOCT at checkout.
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