Can any good come from thinking about death?
Our natural tendency is to answer that question no!
But what if our meditation on death was informed by a theological understanding of death, a recognition of the comfort Jesus’s death affords Christians, and ethical guidance for dealing with death in these complicated days of modern medical developments?
Rather than being morbidly unhelpful, authors Joel R. Beeke and Christopher W. Bogosh contend that meditating on dying and death can be profitable, even necessary, for us.
Are you prepared to say that your death will be “gain” (Phil. 1:21)?
Contents
Part One: The Basics
1. Dying Depicted: Hope in the Old Testament
2. Dying Demystified: Facts about Death
3. Dying Defined: The Wages of Sin
4. Dying Delayed: The Grace of Medicine
Part Two: Jesus’s Dying and Death
5. Dying Devotion: Jesus in Gethsemane (1)
6. Dying Devotion: Jesus in Gethsemane (2)
7. Dying Defeated: Jesus Conquering Death
8. Dying Destroyed: No More Death
Part Three: Contemporary Issues
9. Dying Desperately: Pursuing Futile Treatment
10. Dying Deliberately: Wise Preparation for Death
11. Dying Demonstrated: Faithful Perseverance until
Death 12. Dying Delightfully: Victorious Death
About the Authors
Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan; editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth; editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books; and a prolific author.
Christopher W. Bogosh is the director of education for the Reformed Anglican Church; serves as an associate pastor at Resurrection Anglican Church in St. Augustine, Florida; and continues his work as a registered nurse and pastoral counselor specializing in medical decision making, home health case management, mental-spiritual health and wholeness, and palliative care.
Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) served as president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary from 1995 to 2023 and now serves as its chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic theology. He is a minister of the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Christopher W. Bogosh preaches and teaches regularly at New Hope Baptist Church in Saint Marys, Georgia, where he is a member. He is also a registered nurse at Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, serving as a clinical hospice liaison for Baptist Hospital and the surrounding community. Chris possesses a unique blend of medical and theological training, enabling him to engage the highly technical world of medical science while maintaining fidelity to the Scriptures.
