An Interview with Nancy Guthrie on Facing Death with Courageous Confidence in God

I really appreciate the excellent work Nancy Guthrie has done in collecting the works of classic and contemporary writers on the themes of incarnation (for Christmas), the cross and resurrection (for Easter), and suffering (for all times before Christ's return).

Her latest compilation is on what we work so hard to ignore but all will face: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go: Facing Death with Courageous Confidence in God.

In the following video we talk about the project, why she compiled it, how it affected her, and how she thinks it can be used:

The chapters and contributors are listed below:

Part One: A Reality That Will Not Be Denied

1 Only When You Know How to Die Can You Know How to Live

J. I. Packer

2 Death's Sting Is Removed but Its Bite Remains

Michael S. Horton

3 He Called Death Sweet Names

John Piper

4 Not of the World

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

5 Is Christ Our Sickness-Bearer?

B. B. Warfield

6 Our Faith Is in God, Not in Healing

Joseph Bayly

Part Two: An Aim That Keeps Me Pressing On

7 Finishing with Few Regrets

Randy Alcorn

8 My Father Taught Me How to Die

R. C. Sproul

9 Spiritual Light Shining from Your Deathbed

Abraham Kuyper

10 A Witness in the Way We Die

John Eaves

11 Sickness: The Soul's Undressing

Jeremy Taylor

Part Three: A Hope That Saves Me From Despair

12 Rubbing Hope into the Reality of Death

Timothy Keller

13 Hope Is a Glorious Grace

John Owen

14 Directions for a Peaceful Departure

Richard Baxter

15 What More Should God Do to Persuade You to Accept Death Willingly?

Martin Luther

16 Comfort against Fears of the Dying Hour

Thomas Boston

Part Four: A Future That Will Not Disappoint

17 Suffering Hurries the Heart toward Heaven

Joni Eareckson Tada

18 To Despise This Present Life

John Calvin

19 The Day of a Godly Man's Death

Jonathan Edwards

20 Let Us Say in Dying, "Lord Jesus, Receive My Spirit"

R. L. Dabney

21 Those Who Die Daily Die Easily

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

22 God Reserves the Best for the Last

Richard Sibbes