THE PARADOX SERIES, COMPANION VOLUME

Six Men, Seven Deaths, Eight Resurrections

You already know the day is coming. One day you will take your last breath. Most people push that thought down and stay busy. But it does not go away. It waits. This book asks you to stop running and turn around. Inside, you meet six honest men from the Bible who each came to the end of themselves: David, Jeremiah, Job, Peter, Paul, and Jesus. Every one of them had to let something die before he could truly live. Here is the surprising part. Learning to die a little now is how you get ready to die well later. Each small surrender today makes your spirit more alive, not less. So when your last day finally comes, you can meet it with peace instead of fear.

Plus, inside the same pages:

✓ The author's own story: the long drive to the hospital where his first wife lay dying, and the old habit he finally let die at her bedside

✓ Six honest lives from Scripture, and the one death each man had to face before he could rise

✓ A Weekly Practice at the close of every chapter

✓ A Daily Examen you can keep and use every morning

✓ A thirty-day walk through the seven practices, one for each day

✓ A full Lexicon of the Paradox Series

The Outcome

→ You stop running from the thought of your own death.

→ The small surrenders you practice now get you ready for the last one.

→ You can name which of the six lives your own life is echoing right now.

→ Death stops looking like the end and starts looking like a door.

→ Your spirit grows more alive as the years go on, not more afraid.

About the Author

Dr. Michael G. Semon spent his life as a marriage and family therapist. For more than forty years he sat with couples, pastors, leaders, and families who were sure the problem was the other person. It never was.

His work brings together family systems theory and the Christian faith. All of it rests on one verse: whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Christ will find it. That single paradox became the heart of everything he teaches.

He is the author of the Paradox Series, a full library of books on Christian growth. This book is the companion volume that ties the whole series together.

His own life taught him what he writes about. He lost his first wife, Marsha, when she was fifty-three. Years later he married Nancy, and with her he learned that new life is real. He has two children and lives by one simple conviction.

"Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." — Matthew 16:25

Learn more at drmichaelsemon.com.