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Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging is unavailable, but you can change that!

Thinning hair, failing eyesight, and arthritic hands reveal an inescapable truth: we’re only getting older. But that doesn’t mean we should simply sit back and take it easy. In Finishing Our Course with Joy, renowned theologian and author J. I. Packer challenges us to embrace old age as an opportunity for continued learning, careful planning, and heartfelt discipleship. Packer’s pastoral words...

as our bodies progressively close down; some will die in a coma, or while asleep, or in a sudden accident or attack on our person, or from heart stoppage; and we cannot foresee how it will be for us. So the way of wisdom is to be ready for whatever comes, whenever it comes. What does this involve? More than merely making a will, giving directions for one’s funeral, and arranging for the disposal of one’s property. First and foremost, it involves direct, sober dealing with the Lord Jesus Christ himself,
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