The Book of Daniel

Kevin DeYoung writes with inspiring clarity and pastoral love as he summons a generation of Christians to courage and nerve. As he puts it, ‘The choice that matters most is actually a lifetime of choices.’ This will be the book to give to your graduating high school and college students. But please don’t pigeonhole this book. Do Not Be True to Yourself is a brilliant and succinct call to all Christians to reject the spirit of the age in favor of the courageous Christian faith.

Kevin DeYoung’s Do Not Be True to Yourself is a helpful antidote to a culture of self-obsession. If we’re learning anything about human nature in the age in which we live, it is that outsized focus on oneself produces disabling anxiety, disorienting ‘identities,’ and dizzying confusion about man’s ultimate end. It turns out, secular man’s chief end of glorifying himself is producing the very opposite of joy. This book shows why and shows a better, godward way forward.

As a society, we tend to avoid facing the reality of death, and as a result, we often find ourselves unprepared for it when it comes to us or to a loved one. Even Christians’ views of dying and what happens next may be fuzzy. But the Bible offers so much help and hope in the face of death. The reality of who God is, His overarching plan, and how Jesus’ resurrection transforms death for His people touches down in our lives with concrete hope that changes everything in the midst of heartbreak and loss. Waters has done a great service in presenting a thorough account of biblical truth about death, dying, and grief as well as insights and advice that are both pastoral and practical. You will find this a very helpful resource.

In short order, Dr. Waters has provided for us a theologically sound and practical book on the matter that faces us all: our death and what happens afterwards. Written with the eye of a New Testament scholar, but accessible to everyone, Facing the Last Enemy will provide invaluable help to those facing death and their next of kin. I know nothing that meets this important need as well as this book does, and I will be highly recommending it at the church at which I serve. Invaluable.

Having reached my allotted three score years and ten, I have been realizing that I need to face up to the reality of death. This book has helped me to do so, not in a morbid or fearful way but in the assurance provided by the life-giving Word of God. In his thorough treatment of what the Bible teaches about death in all its nuances, Guy Waters has written a book that will be invaluable for pastors, for those who grieve, and for the dying, which all of us are. Facing the Last Enemy consistently shows the connection between our death and the death of Christ, and His resurrection and our resurrection.