The platitudes of wisdom are like a hot knife of hate in an ill-timed moment. “Timing is everything.” Certainly, that is part of what Solomon means in the second line of his couplet in Ecclesiastes 3:7: “A time to be silent and a time to speak.” Job’s friends are stunned into silence by the magnitude … More The Harrowing Withering of Suffering and Loss
Sunday Musings A friend recently posted a Facebook link to an old R.E.M. song. He called them one of his favorite bands. I think he has good taste. I too have always thought of R.E.M. as one of those bands that was more interested in good music than big commercial success (though they have had … More Musing on R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”
Tuesday is for Preaching Just came into possession of a new book on preaching wisdom literature. My daughter and her husband gave me a copy of Douglas Sean O’Donnell’s The Beginning and End of Wisdom: Preaching Christ from the First and Last Chapters of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job. The title and subtitle are long but the book … More The Beginning and End of Wisdom
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