Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Ecclesiastes

For Everything There Is A Season

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8 – “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;  a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time…

A Garden View Of The World And Ourselves

ROMANS 3:10-12 – “As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”” THEME OF THE DAY: A GARDEN VIEW OF THE WORLD AND OURSELVES. The world is a hurting place full of hurting people. It is hurt…

Taking Inventory Of Our Lives

JOB 14:1-2 – Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. THEME OF THE DAY: TAKING INVENTORY OF OUR LIVES.  Life may be viewed like the changing of seasons in nature.  I am not referring to summer giving way…

A Wasted Life

ECCLESIASTES 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” THEME OF THE DAY: A WASTED LIFE.    Have we ever looked back on our lives and with wishful thinking said…

The Seriousness Of Life

ECCLESIASTES 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE SERIOUSNESS OF LIFE.  The Apostle Paul graphically paints what the world will be like in…

We Just Don’t Know When

ECCLESIASTES 9:11-12 – “Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil…