1. Christians grow old by David Gay is a slightly idiosyncratic and quite sermonic 42 page booklet with plenty of Scripture and various observations. The contents page at the front gives a good idea of what is to come. 1. He stresses the importance of conversion whatever your age 2. The fact old age usually means physical decline. 3. Seven general points from Scripture on the aged - they must: be respected, keep a careful spiriutal watch, keep hoping in the promises, still seek to be useful, prepare for death, not waste themselves on vain regrets, realise and accept limitations. 4. Elderly Christians are part of the family (an honoured and useful part) 5. Elderly Christians are part of the church (an honoured, teachable and useful part). Another feaure of the booklet is frequent pointed applications to young and old.
2. Making the mature years count by Robert Peterson is a 60 page large print transcript of Back to the Bible broadcasts from the seventies and has helpful things to say to Christians in their declining years. Four brief chapters cover God's care for the elderly, the importance of being positive, something on night time when it all seems worse and a final call to being thankful. It is as much a book on suffering as one on old age.
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