“I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 1:12-14Over the years I have come…
“There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.” Ecclesiastes 1:11There is good news and bad news in this verse. The good news is for those people who worry about what others think about them. In the end no one will think about you at all. The bad news is for those wh…
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.” Ecclesiastes 1:9-10Commentators on Ecclesiastes remark that this early portion of the …
“Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there …
Two days ago I received this note from a friend. This is the first time I can recall Anchor being used to help young girls that have been rescued from trafficking. This is such a “hidden ministry” that most people don’t know much about.I thought you might like to know that your Anchor for the Soul books will now be in welcome bag…
“What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?” Ecclesiastes 1:3 Solomon’s question in verse 3 begs for an answer. Mine goes like this: What you gain from your labor depends on why you are doing it. There is a huge difference between living for your career and being sent on a mission. The Bible n…
The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 1:1-2) Scott was only twenty-six years old when he died. Although he grew up in a Christian home, during his teens and early twenties he went t…
Early this year we ordered a new printing of 100,000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul to be distributed to prison ministries, military ministries, crisis pregnancy centers, to outlaw biker gangs, and to rescue missions. We even have some friends who use the books to reach women who work at strip clubs.A printing of that size costs us about $56,500….
A friend wrote me saying that he had been asked to give a course on evangelism and wanted any ideas I might have. Here is what I wrote back to him:Focus on the gospel, not on technique. Too many evangelism courses focus on saying specific sentences and on how to “close the deal.” I think that matters but it’s not the main thing. M…
Today I celebrate my 60th birthday. Somehow that seems like a milestone worth pondering. To begin with, I am happily surprised that I lived this long. On my little twig of the Pritchard family tree, our men generally don’t live a long time. My dad died when he was in his 50s, my uncle in his 40s, my grandfather when he was 70, two cousins in …