Passing from Death to Life

I really was challenged by the book Die Young: Burying Your Self In Christ by Michael & Hayley Dimarco from Crossway Publishers. In this book the Dimarco married duo explain what Paul is saying in Romans 12 regarding a "living sacrifice" that we need to deny ourselves so that we do not serve our own personal desires but instead serve His. What a mindset that is counter cultural. This book helped me realize that even though the authors of sacred Writ lived and taught a Gospel that is almost 2 millennium old it is as much applicable in modernity as ever. The authors illustrate in each chapter paradoxes that dying young enables: Death is the New Life, Down is the New Up, Less is the New More, Weak is the New Strong, Slavery is the New Freedom, Confession is the New Innocence, and finally Red is the New White.

I received an advance copy of this book from Crossway.