69. Retirement Truths What the Bible Says Compared to Popular Narratives With Roland Heersink

Join Charlotte and guest author Roland Heersink as they talk about how retirement is a turning point that exposes what truly shapes our faith, purpose, and priorities. Many Christians enter the retirement season expecting rest and freedom, only to face unexpected questions about identity, meaning, and how to finish well.

Retirement Truths was written by Heersink and contributing theologian Dr. Szaszi Bene from Tyndale Seminary in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The book offers a clear, deeply biblical vision for navigating this decisive stage of life with faith and wisdom.

Grounded in more than 150 Bible passages, this book brings rare clarity to a topic Scripture addresses often, but Christian literature rarely explores with depth.

Rather than offering lifestyle advice or encouragement to stay busy, his book speaks honestly about the real spiritual challenges of retirement – loss of role, fear, complacency, suffering, declining health, and the approach of death – and shows how the Bible speaks directly to each one.

This insightful podcast conversation will help you view retirement not as a problem to manage or a reward to enjoy, but as a distinct calling.

In this special season of life, you can:

1. Rethink success
2. Redefine productivity,
3. And live your later years with purpose, surrender, and lasting fruitfulness

Retirement also is a time for having:

1. A biblically grounded framework for understanding retirement, rooted wholly in Scripture
2. Clear insight into the hidden spiritual challenges many retirees experience but rarely name
3. Guidance for finishing well, even amid limitation, illness, or uncertainty
4. A perspective on retirement that goes far beyond activity, leisure, or self-fulfillment

Whether you are approaching or living in retirement, or are preparing ahead of that time, this podcast offers clarity, depth, and encouragement for one of life’s most important seasons.

Retirement is not about doing more. It’s about finishing well.

As Roland says, “Do your best, let Jesus do the rest (and don’t be stressed.) "

Listen in to this conversation and order Heersink’s book to learn how.

Thanks for joining us!

Roland Heersink is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur with decades of leadership experience across small, medium, and large organizations. He is the Founder and Chairman of God & Work and Christian Business Angels and has written more than 85 Bible reading plans followed by over half a million subscribers, helping people integrate faith into everyday life.

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