What Happens after Death?

by Richard D. Phillips

Publisher:

P&R

, 2013

Overview

Death is real, and its reality hurts us. Yet our journey does not end when we breathe our last on earth. How do we as Christians come to grips with death? What can we expect afterward? An Army officer turned pastor, Richard Phillips tackles this difficult topic with clarity and care. After describing the proper response to death modeled by Jesus and noted Christians, he provides a biblically faithful explanation of what we can expect in the actual experience of death, the final judgment, and our eternal state.

Contents

Top Highlights

“A second and not unrelated question is: What about soul sleep? The Bible often says that dead people have ‘fallen asleep.’ We need to understand that this is a metaphorical description of the body, not the soul.” (Page 16)

“‘The Bible teaches that we do not lose consciousness when we die. We will be in heaven, aware of Christ, aware of God, and aware of the other saints who are there. We will not be clothed with our resurrected bodies at that point, but we will be in an intermediate state, in which the soul exists without the body.” (Pages 16–17)

“nobody reigns in hell except Christ, who reigns in hell in all his terrifying power” (Page 19)

“First, we should note that the Bible acknowledges the reality of death” (Page 7)

“second place, we must recognize the wrongness of death” (Page 8)

Product Details

• Title: What Happens after Death?
• Author: Richard D. Phillips
• Series: Basics of the Faith
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Death › Religious aspects--Christianity; Future life › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781596384040, 9781596388239, 9781596388246, 1596384042, 1596388234, 1596388242
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTHPPNSDTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:47:32Z

About Richard D. Phillips

Richard Davis Phillips has been the Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina (PCA) since July, 2007. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, and a master of business administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Prior to entering the ministry, he commanded tank units as an officer in the U.S. Army and later served as an assistant professor of leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He came to faith in Jesus Christ at the age of 30, and was soon was leading evangelistic Bible studies at the college where he was teaching. A few years later he received God’s call to enter the gospel ministry, and received a master of divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.