Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope (Paperback)

McCullough, Matthew

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The Best Way to Find Meaning in Life Is to Get Honest About Death

Life expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don't often see death up close. That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else's problem. Ignoring the certainty of death doesn't protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we're living now--but it does hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus's promises to us. So long as death remains remote and unreal, Jesus's promises will too. But honesty about death brings hope to life. That's the ironic claim at the heart of this book. Cultivating death awareness helps us bring the promises of Jesus from the hazy clouds of some other world into the everyday realities of our world, where they belong.

  • Insightful and Accessible: Draws from many sources, including research from science and psychology, and examples from literature, pop culture, theology, and Scripture
  • Christ-Centered Encouragement for Life and Loss: Teaching what the Bible says about identity, futility, and grief, McCullough offers hope that is tied to the promises of God
  • Replaces ISBN 978-1-4335-6053-8
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    Paperback
  • ISBN
    9781433569647
  • Page Count
    208
  • Publisher
    Crossway
  • Publication Date
    July 2025

Endorsements (5)

“Through the lens of Scripture, McCullough looks death squarely in the eye and reminds us that it is nothing to be afraid of. For the Christian, it has truly lost its sting. Remember Death is a welcome conversation in a culture that doesnt know how to think about mortality.”

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Andrew Peterson

singer/songwriter; author, The Wingfeather Saga series; Founder, The Rabbit Room

“Can we face death and find hope? According to Matt McCullough, yes. Remember Death rightly reorients us to the impermanence of this world and the brevity of our lives, witnessing to the paradox that grief is necessary for faith. Richly informed by Scripture and a feast of other sources, this book vitally forms our longings for the world to come. I cant wait to recommend it.”

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Jen Pollock Michel

author, Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place

“This is a profoundly helpful book. With a preachers turn of phrase and illustrative eye, with a pastors care for precious people and their greatest fears, and with a theologians grasp of the Bibles big picture and the heart of the gospel, Matthew McCullough writes to overcome our detachment from death and deepen our attachment to the Lord Jesus Christ. These pages will repay careful thought and meditative reflection on their surprising riches.”

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David Gibson

Minister, Trinity Church, Aberdeen, Scotland; author, Living Life Backward; coeditor, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her

“This is a brilliant book. Rightly advocating death awareness but not death acceptance, McCullough powerfully demonstrates that in order to remember Christ well, we need to learn to remember death well. This book shines with scriptural truth, pouring forth the light of Christ upon our fleeting, fear-filled lives.”

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Matthew Levering

James N. and Mary D. Perry, Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary; author, Dying and the Virtues

“Matt McCulloughs meditation on death is haunting, profound, and stirring, reminding us of our identity and our destiny apart from Jesus Christ. Death casts a shadow over our lives, showing us, as McCullough points out, that we arent the center of the universe. Those who live rightly and those who live forever often think of death, but at the same time they live with hope since Jesus is the resurrection and the life. This book reminds us why we die and teaches us how to live.”

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Thomas R. Schreiner

James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

About the Author

Matthew McCullough (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the pastor of Edgefield Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and the author of Remember Heaven: Meditations on the World to Come for Life in the Meantime.

Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope - McCullough, Matthew - 9781433569647
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Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope (Paperback)

$14.54 $19.99

The Best Way to Find Meaning in Life Is to Get Honest About Death

Life expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don't often see death up close. That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else's problem. Ignoring the certainty of death doesn't protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we're living now--but it does hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus's promises to us. So long as death remains remote and unreal, Jesus's promises will too. But honesty about death brings hope to life. That's the ironic claim at the heart of this book. Cultivating death awareness helps us bring the promises of Jesus from the hazy clouds of some other world into the everyday realities of our world, where they belong.

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