Our parents tried to master the heart of the matter when raising us. Sometimes they got it right. Sometimes they didn’t. Want to know how? It’s an art more than a science, but you won’t want to miss this.

We do not walk “in” the valley of the shadow of death. We walk “through” it. The victory of Jesus doesn’t displace human emotions, but it does displace death. Fear is an emotion that will naturally be part of our end. Though we may live and die with fear, we live and die unafraid.

I’ll admit it: I don’t want to grow old. Really, it’s not the added years that I dread, but the atrophy: aches and pains; slowing down; growing limitations. The resurrection of Jesus makes a reimagining of our later years possible. Want to know more?

To live is to risk. Failure is inevitable. It’s not that we’re doomed to fail, but this is part of life as we know it. Unfortunately, the temptation to let past failures dictate our plans has robbed too many of us of God-intended victories.

Do you ever feel alone in the world? Have you ever awoken in the middle of the night and experienced a barrage of insecure thoughts? In one way or another, we all have a fear of loneliness. The first time God said something wasn’t good, it was about being alone.

Spoiler alert! We’re going to read the end of the Book. We’re going to see how everything turns out. But this is totally ok. It’s not like insider trading or anything like that. We are allowed—invited!—to have the inside scoop that gives us an edge in life. Want to know more?

I think an NDE would be quite disappointing. NDE? Near Death Experience. If I died, went to heaven, and then had to come back here again I’d be upset. But we all know someone who suffered this anticlimax so that we would know that death is not the end of life.

Do you look forward to Judgment Day? How about old age? Does old age feel like a cruel judgment? Do you dread these things? How do we live our end today in anticipation of the greatest of all new beginnings?

What can you really count on? Leading gurus tell how to lengthen your life and how to get better life in that length … but many who apply these principles die young and many who ignore them live long and rich lives. What should you expect of life?

What can we really know, after all? The more we truly learn, the more we learn we truly don’t know very much. Ironically, learning what we cannot know helps us leverage what we do know. Want to know what we cannot know?