So much has been said about the rat race, the figure of speech that seems to summarize our life in this world, under the sun. But often the answer to this predicament is not itself helpful. We strive for wealth to have good things, and then later we realize that our wealth does not satisfy [...]
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Stop Striving and Enjoy God’s Daily Gifts
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Guard your steps! Words, Worth, and Worship
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After you watch this video, consider how you prepare for Sunday morning worship. The Preacher’s advice in Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 is clear and straightforward. Think before you Worship: prepare your heart. Eccl. 5:1 To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing [...]
Watch your Step!
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How brazen and dishonest people are with their religion. They will go so far with it as suits their needs; so they attend the services and sing the hymns, and when they have to, give a little money to the Lord. But do they live as one should do who’s made a vow to God? [...]
Nothing Better…
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Personal growth, tagged Ecclesiastes on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge [...]
Listen to the Preacher!
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, contemporary culture, tagged Ecclesiastes on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. Eccl. 1:12-13 After his opening statement of his [...]
Nothing New Under the Sun
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, contemporary culture, tagged Ecclesiastes on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Eccl. 1:9 We are enamored with newness. Our culture wants “new” things, new iPhones, new iPhone carriers, new news, new ways to communicate new things (facebook and twitter), new things [...]
Wisdom and Knowing God
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, contemporary culture on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First, the atheistic humanist claims to know enough to say that God does not exist. This is a claim to know everything, for if he admits that he does not know everything, how does he know that God is not included in what he does not know? Secondly, the agnostic humanist thinks to avoid the [...]
Ceaseless change and perpetual sameness
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Personal growth, tagged Ecclesiastes on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; [...]
Blogging through Ecclesiastes
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Personal growth, tagged Ecclesiastes on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What have you been trying to get out of life? What has life been throwing at you? “The Preacher” (as he is called in Ecclesiastes) spent his time examining life in this world. When he writes, he writes about the reality of life in this world. The Preacher doesn’t pull any punches when he opens [...]
Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Ecclesiastes
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Personal growth, tagged Ecclesiastes, life without God on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? Eccl. 1:2-3 For thousands of years people thought that the universe revolved around the earth. Ptolemy, a Roman citizen who lived in Egypt in the first and second [...]
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