Living Life Backward - David Gibson

Living Life Backward

David Gibson

出版社

Crossway

出版时间

2017-07-31

ISBN

9781433556272

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

What if it is death that teaches us how to truly live?

Keeping the end in mind shapes how we live our lives in the here and now. Living life backward means taking the one thing in our future that is certain―death―and letting that inform our journey before we get there.

Looking to the book of Ecclesiastes for wisdom, Living Life Backward was written to shake up our expectations and priorities for what it means to live “the good life.” Considering the reality of death helps us pay attention to our limitations as human beings and receive life as a wondrous gift from God―freeing us to live wisely, generously, and faithfully for God’s glory and the good of his world.

目录
Preface
Acknowledgments
Let’s Pretend
Bursting the Bubble
Doing Time

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用户评论
下午同事还和我说几天前还在想着回老家后会如何美滋滋地过个年,没想到因为临近年关疫情的突然爆发而只好在出租屋里一个人跨年,我自己也没想到今年除夕会在隔离酒店里度过。不过这不正是Ecclesiastes告诉人们的吗:人生就像一缕青烟,短暂又难以捉摸,生命中充满了good times, hard times, in-between times,最重要的是会离开这个世界。人们假装自己能控制一切,为自己的未来打算,习惯于live life forward,但Ecclesiastes告诉我们要live life backward,透过死亡与终末反思、展望现在。这个除夕之夜,我想我并不为无法与家人团聚而感到无奈(可能是因为隔离前已经在家住了一晚上),而是为隔离期满、走出酒店后,那短暂又漫长人生踌躇与感慨。
传道书的注释,同时又是一个讲章合集,很棒的参考。
在日光之上(飞机)上读的,充满了属天的喜乐,然后飞机降落了。 life is a gift from God. Always bear that in mind.
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