Category: Ecclesiastes

The Conclusion

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments,  For this is man’s all.  For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” – Ecclesiastes 12:13-14   Solomon has taken us on one wild ride, hasn’t he? I’ve felt

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A Letter to the Graduate

Dear Bailey, Britton, Brooklyn, and Shelbi, I can still remember the first day you each came to my home and sat around my kitchen table. Looking back, I think I was just as nervous as you were. I can’t believe the years have flown by as fast as they have and

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Live Boldly!

Welcome to the last week of our Ecclesiastes study! We begin this week with some pretty confusing verses: Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on

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The Folly Of Laziness

Solomon was truly a remarkable man. In 2 Chronicles 1 God basically gives Solomon one wish. He can ask for anything at all, and the Lord would give it to him.  Many of us might have asked for wealth or health or maybe an easy life, but Solomon’s response is

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All of Me

I just said “no” to another media craze requested by my two teenagers this week. Since I feel like I say “no” a lot these days, I really do intentionally say “yes” when I can. This would be why we have a pet rat. Heh. I’ve evaluated these “no” answers

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Work and Rest

 “Go, eat your bread with joy, And drink your wine with a merry heart; For God has already accepted your works. Let your garments always be white, And let your head lack no oil. Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He

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Death Is Coming…

Death is coming. It comes violently, with much clammer, taking with it hundreds of souls. It comes gently, in the middle of the night, snatching a person from their dreams. It comes without warning, stealing one’s breath and breaking hearts. Death is coming — and it is coming for you.

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Eat, Drink & Be Merry…

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. And I

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Submitting to Authority God’s Way

“A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. I say: ‘Keep the king’s command, because of God’s oath to him.‘ Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king

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The Jesus we need…

“Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things – which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. See, this alone I found,

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