David Gibson | Living Life Backward | Steve Brown, Etc. | Key Life

What if it's death that teaches us how to truly live? This week, Steve and the gang chat with minister and author David Gibson about some surprising and practical insights from the book of Ecclesiastes. David's latest book is called "Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End" (amzn.to/32MWkw9).
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GUEST BIO
David Gibson is minister of Trinity Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. David serves as the co-editor of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her and he’s the author of Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth. David’s newest book is called "Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End" (amzn.to/32MWkw9).
00:00 - Open
02:43 - Meet David Gibson
07:57 - Misconceptions about Ecclesiastes
09:55 - The gift of studying Ecclesiastes
13:38 - Getting "A time for every matter under heaven..."
19:32 - What does "Living Life Backward" mean?
22:34 - Why Ecclesiastes does NOT just mean "Eat, drink, and be merry."
29:49 - The challenge of the translation of the Hebrew word 'hebel' to "vanity"
34:50 - Why few things connect with people the way Ecclesiastes and other wisdom literature do
37:54 - Steve's closing thoughts
40:17 - Next week's guest is...
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[@kate60]

Just finished the book. Excellent. Thank You

[@terrigabriel582]

Definitely a more Positive outlook on Death , thanks for sharing

[@KeyLife]

Thanks for listening!

[@jameschild1321]

Very good. I'm going to re-read Ecclesiastes with an entirely new perspective! Thank you

[@jerrystauffer2351]

My Sunday school is teaching through the book so I looked it up. I've always hated nostalgia. History ended before you were born and you missed it so worship my youth! I've heard 4 generations wax nostalgic and the speech is always the same. "When we're gone no one will remember....." someone older than you is annoying, someone your own age is surreal and someone younger is ridiculous. Calling it escapism is very insightful.

[@peterj6740]

Everything is fleeting and that includes wisdom ,pleasures, folly , toil ,advancement ,riches because they do not last ; but everything is beautiful in its time.
Make the most of everything while they last and do the right thing because in the end there is God to whom we must give an account of our lives
O LORD , what is man that you care for him , the son of man that you think of him ? Man is like a breath ; his days are like a fleeting shadow .
But God has loved us with an everlasting love and is constant in his affection for us , and if the lord marked our guilt who would survive , but with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption and that is why we revere Him and above all God wants us to pray for all because He wants to save all .
Solomon , David , Jeremiah and Paul are the authors of the above quotes of Scripture that give us a more total picture of God and his relationship with man and vice versa