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Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

and then meet the same end. Being a Christian doesn’t stop this being true. Rather, it should make us the first to stop pretending that it isn’t true. That is the Preacher’s aim. It may not make perfect sense to us yet, but he is carefully laying the foundations for the main argument of his book: only preparing to die will teach us how to live. And part of establishing that argument is the very simple point of 1:1–11. In these days, under the sun, it is unavoidably true that we live in a world where
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