
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
We talk a lot about resurrection. What about the death that must come first? Through story and biblical insight, Rick James reminds us that when Jesus tells us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow him, he is describing a path of death, not a path to death.
Giving up our own plans in order to meet someone else's needs. Allowing God to shape our dreams, even as we lose a relationship, a job, a hoped-for future. Being alert to these daily opportunities to die to ourselves is how we discover that every act of dying, done in faith, leads to spiritual growth.
As we learn to embrace the little deaths of everyday existence, we lose our taste for lifeless religiosity. Our appetite for a thriving, vibrant life in Christ grows—and our own experience motivates others to live out their extraordinary mission on earth. In truth, death is not an ending. It is the only way to experience abundant life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE - Better Off Dead
- Section One - Democracy of Death
- CHAPTER TWO - Everybody Dies
- CHAPTER THREE - Our Cross, His Cross
- CHAPTER FOUR - Our Life, His Life
- Section Two - The Wake of Faith
- CHAPTER FIVE - The Anatomy Lesson
- CHAPTER SIX - Waiting and Waiting
- CHAPTER SEVEN - Welcome Back
- Section Three - The Life of Martyrs
- CHAPTER EIGHT - The Death in Witness
- CHAPTER NINE - The Power of Evangelism
- CHAPTER TEN - Ready and Willing
- Section Four - La Petite Mort (The Little Death of Trials)
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Secret Life of Trials
- CHAPTER TWELVE - Death of a Thousand Cuts
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Flight to Phoenix
- Section Five - Ode To Courage
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Taps
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Honorable Mention
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Ordinary Heroes
- Section Six - Humbled and Mortified
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Humiliation
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Strip Search
- CHAPTER NINETEEN - Being Ever So Humble
- Section Seven - THE PASSION OF LOVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY - What Is Love, Anyway?
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - The Heart of Love
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - The Heat of Passion
- EPILOGUE - Requiem
- Endnotes