Backward Mutters

Category: Bible

  • Ecclesiastes Wisdom

    Began studying today for next Sunday’s sermon. I’ve been working on paraphrasing Ecclesiastes 7:1 which reads: “A good name is better than fine perfume.” Here’s my exposition: People will receive a stinking fool if he smells of fine perfume, but they will keep company with an honorable man even if…

  • Existentialist Firefighter Postpones the Death of Three

    (via The Onion). When asked if he felt something, anything, after briefly extending the lives of three human beings, Farber replied in the negative. “I was doing what, at that moment, I was doing,” he said. “Tomorrow, if there is another fire, I will do the same. Perhaps in that…

  • "Martha, Martha"

    Calvin in speaking of Jesus correction of Martha has this to say, “Though the hospitality of Martha deserved commendation, and is commended, yet there were two faults in it which are pointed out by Christ. The first is, that Martha carried her activity beyond proper bounds; for Christ would rather…

  • Yet I will….

    Habakkuk 3 is Habakkuk’s response after being in the presence of the Lord. The genre of chapter 3 is unlike the previous two chapters. Both the language (the words employed) and the form (the way in which the words are put together) reflect the worshipful heart of Habakkuk.If you have…

  • "I will look to see what he will say to me."

    C.S. Lewis as he worked through the grief of losing his wife, Joy, to cancer, wrote the following, Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted…