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| Publication Date: 15 Sep 2016 |
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| Publisher: IVP |
| Page Count: 176 |
| Author: David Gibson |
| ISBN-13: 9781783592852, 9781783595211 |
Destiny
Learning To Live By Preparing To Die
As a culture we have yet to come to terms with death, but in Destiny David Gibbons shows how to approach such a big topic
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Press Reviews
David Gibson’s expositions of Ecclesiastes are like Ecclesiastes itself: sometimes shocking, often tantalizing, always refreshing. He deftly combines serious stuff with a light touch, clear style and gospel relief. You will repeatedly run into ‘think-stoppers’; he will make new grooves in your gray matter that weren’t there before; and you will often admit, ‘I wish I’d have thought to put it like that!’ I think the writer of Ecclesiastes would be pleased with David’s work.
Living in the light of your death will help you to live wisely, freely and generously. It will give you a big heart and open hands, and enable you to relish all the small things of life in deeply profound ways. Death can teach you the meaning of mirth.
The author encourages us to take the one thing in the future that is certain - our death - and work backwards from that point into all the details and decisions and heartaches of our lives, and to think about them from the perspective of the end. It is the destination which makes sense of the journey. If we know for sure where we are heading, then we can know for sure what we need to do before we get there.
Learn to find true joy and satisfaction in God's good gifts, and, in realizing your own smallness, see just how great God is.
'The past two decades have witnesses quite a number of popular expositions of Ecclesiastes - ant this one is the best of them.' D.A. Carson
'I think the writer of Ecclesiastes would be pleased with David's work.' - Dale Ralph Davis
'Profound scholarship and covetable clarity of presentation.' - Alec Motyer
'Bold and beautiful in style, Destiny promises to jolt the mind and shake us out of our complacencies. I couldn't put it down!' - Fiona McDonald