Archive for October 2021
Lock me up, please
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vg6wr-111bf3b We have been freed. The chains are gone, the doors are open, and we have been shown the way. Those who are wise would appreciate that freedom and do whatever it takes to keep it. Yet, so many of us willfully walk back into bondage. Let us ask God to show us how we…
Read MoreS117P9 – Through Solomon’s eyes: the days God has made
Ecc. 7:13-14 Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, so that man can find out nothing that will come after him. There…
Read MoreS117P8 – Through Solomon’s eyes: those of good repute
Ecc. 7:1a A good name is better than precious ointment… These brothers were very influential in their large family, but their influence came in different forms. The older brother had really made it in the world, and everyone referred to him as the rich uncle or the rich nephew or the rich son. He had…
Read MoreS117P7 – Through Solomon’s eyes: the seriousness of faith
Ecc. 5:1 Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil. It is sad to think that he had grown accustomed to his parents’ divorce at such a young age, but he…
Read MoreS117P6 – Through Solomon’s eyes: the treasure of a friend
Ecc. 4:9-10 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. What the people saw was an emperor who had everything…
Read MoreS117P5 – Through Solomon’s eyes: some things are better left unknown
Ecc. 4:1-3 Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: and look! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter— on the side of their oppressors there is power, but they have no comforter. Therefore, I praised the dead who were already dead, more than the living…
Read MoreS117P4 – Through Solomon’s eyes: prevailing injustice
Ecc. 3:16-17 Moreover, I saw under the sun: in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, iniquity was there. I said in my heart, “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.” When I was young,…
Read MoreS117P3 – Through Solomon’s eyes: all in its season
Ecc. 3:1-8 To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to…
Read MoreTo quench our thirst
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gqkw4-1111fbd We serve a God who will quench our thirst for him, but that really depends on us. We can have a little thirst for him, or we can thirst for him like the wandering Ibex searching for a stream in the wilderness. How much of God do you want? How thirsty are you?
Read MoreS117P2 – Through Solomon’s eyes: fleeting pleasure
Ecc. 2:1-3 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to…
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