Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.26.12 in Ebooks
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1Missionary friends in Nigeria have observed that there are great differences in how Africans and Americans view time. For the Westerner, time is to be managed, obeyed, and strictly observed. We spend large amounts of time planning for th…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.25.12 in Ebooks
“To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 2:26Verse 26 reminds us that there is a moral government in the universe. G…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.24.12 in Ebooks
“A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?” Ecclesiastes 2:24-25Twice in verses 24-25 Solomon speaks of “finding” satisfaction and “finding” enjoyment. He then informs us that …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.23.12 in Ebooks
The foundation of gratitude is the expectation of nothing.
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.22.12 in Ebooks
“I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.” Ecclesiastes 2:18-19It turns out that Sol…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.20.12 in Ebooks
“Then I thought in my heart, ‘The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?’ I said in my heart, ‘This too is meaningless.’ For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man too must die!“ Ecclesi…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.19.12 in Ebooks
“I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.” Ecclesiastes 2:13-14Sergei Nikolaev, pastor of the Temple of the Gospel in St. Petersburg, Russia, knows Billy Graham well…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.18.12 in Ebooks
“Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?” Ecclesiastes 2:12 I’m sure Solomon felt pressure from both sides on the issue of kingly succession. On the one hand his father was David, who quite frankly was a better man than h…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.17.12 in Ebooks
“Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 2:11You would think Solomon would be happy. After all, he had it all-money, fame, power, a vast harem, an enormous kingdom, ships that brought him riches …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.16.12 in Ebooks
“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.” Ecclesiastes 2:10Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be king for a day? Suppose that for just one day you had unlimited wealth, unlimited power, and could do anything you w…
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