Last week, I read Tim Challies’ letter to his dead son and cried. No parent, as Theoden says to Gandalf in The Two Towers film, should have to bury their child. It is perhaps the deepest hurt in this whole broken world.

So sweet, then, is the knowledge of Christ’s resurrection—his triumph over death not only for himself, but for us, too. It’s why Challies can write, “I’ll see you soon, my sweet boy.” And it’s also why we can find hope here on earth, in everything from justice to sexual ethics to identity to suffering.

That resurrection hope is the subject of the latest book from Tim Keller, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year.

“Keller spends most of the book pressing the reality of the resurrection into the details of everyday life,” writes Matt McCullough in his review of Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the True Meaning of Easter. “Keller doesn’t want to simply tell us that Jesus is alive. He wants to show us what a difference it makes for what we’re facing.”

I can’t think of a better, more important message to hear, understand, and cling to this Easter.