Welcome to chapter 18 of Indoor. My name is Ben Greenfield and each week on this podcast feed,

I'll be giving you a snippet from my book Indoor, a guide to spiritual stamina.

You can find the entire book in physical and digital versions at getindoor.com.

Here we go. Chapter 18, death. On a recent podcast on my website, which included a Q&A

for my listeners, someone asked me a specific question about my thoughts on what happens after you die.

While I certainly spitballed my gut response to the listeners question in that particular episode,

which I'll link to on the resources webpage for this chapter, which is going to be at getindoor.com slash chapter 18.

Upon further reflection and study, I feel as though my reply wasn't entirely adequate.

And for a matter as important as death and the afterlife, I think it requires a bit more of a

thorough and considerate response. In my last book, Fitsol, I did talk about what I think heaven will be like

and also with Jesus-likely experience during his three day, herring and hell.

But I want to delve even more into death in this chapter. After all, the death is a serious topic,

and not to be treated lightly, without deep thought. As author, pastor, and theologian John Piper writes,

Jesus kicked the teeth out of death, crushing its power over his people,

revelations 26, and promising one day to destroy it forever, revelations 2014. But because death has been

conquered, it doesn't mean peace has been made with it. This isn't a tennis match. Death is no

less terrible, it should be no less hated. Well, not a tennis match indeed. I want you to just think

about it. Imagine your death. No, really, really think about it. Your death, I mean. So seldom is it

that we actually, apart from those who may have undergone an actual near death experience,

truly imagine or experience death in vivid visualization. Imagine right now as you're reading this

very sentence out of seemingly nowhere, a bullet rips through the wall of your room and buries

itself with red hot fire into your upper right gut. You don't know where it came from. Perhaps it

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