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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, 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.

<b>J. Todd Billings</b> (ThD, Harvard University Divinity School) is the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. He is the author of seven books, including <i>Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ</i>, <i>Union with Christ</i> (winner of a<i> Christianity Today </i>Book Award), and <i>Calvin, Participation, and the Gift</i> (winner of a 2009 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise). His articles have appeared in <i>Christianity Today</i>, the <i>Christian Century</i>, and Relevant. Visit his website at