Main Idea: Test every messenger and their message to guard their influence in your life. Introduction The top things I listen to/watch most…. Be discerning—false prophets are already out thereExamine...
Main Idea: When death exposes life's limitations, wisdom calls us to faith in God. Death has lingered throughout the book of Ecclesiastes up to this point. It has been in the shadows, it has loomed overhead, it has been observed from a dis...
Solomon once again reaches back into his memory bank to consider how he once processed the realities of Death and Injustice. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon expressed his God-fearing conclusion about every day matters of life. The frustrations and ...
Solomon once again reaches back into his memory bank to consider how he once processed the realities of Death and Injustice. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon expressed his God-fearing conclusion about every day matters of life. The frustrations and ...
Five insights into making God’s sovereignty the foundation of persistent joy. You can usually bet that when the season changes, the weather changes accordingly. Certain weather is appropriate and fitting for certain seasons. In Ecclesias...
In this passage Solomon turns from describing his pursuit of gain through wisdom and folly. Now he begins to explain what he learned through a deep evaluation of that pursuit. ‘What does he have to show for it?’ In other words, he’s still tr...
An Echo of Covering for Shame (Genesis 2 and 3)An Echo of Appeasing God’s Wrath (Genesis 8)An Echo of Substitution for Man (Genesis 22)An Echo of Salvation through Judgment (Exodus 12)An Echo of Entering ...
King Solomon has discovered that every surface upon which life can be enjoyed, every nook and cranny in which one might search for some new hidden gem of fulfillment, and any luxurious amenity life might have to offer for a man’s short stay on t...
‘Hevel…’ Vanity…Smoke…Mist…Breath… If these things represent the transience of life, and if they represent the transience of the experiences life has to offer, then Solomon wants to be sure we’re not chasing after the wron...