{"id":1791,"date":"2017-11-07T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:30:19","slug":"wisdom-from-ecclesiastes-and-david-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2017\/11\/07\/wisdom-from-ecclesiastes-and-david-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Ecclesiastes and David Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday&#8217;s Core Seminar will examine Ecclesiastes 9:1-12. To whet your appetite, hear are a few comments David Gibson makes on this passage in his book, <em>Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To die well means that you realize death is the limit God has placed on creatures who want to be God. . . . To die well means I realize that every time I see a coffin, it preaches to me that the world is broken and fallen and under the curse of death &#8211; and I am a part of it. (109)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We tend to live as if the one thing that is certain will never come while the many things that are uncertain are certain. (110)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the created world, you can only truly enjoy what you do not worship. (115)<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we ponder these truths and many others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday&#8217;s Core Seminar will examine Ecclesiastes 9:1-12. To whet your appetite, hear are a few comments David Gibson makes on this passage in his book, Living Life Backward:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}