You can watch today’s Daily Word by clicking on the image below. But first, please read Ecclesiastes 9:11-18. One of the best books in my library is a little collection of proverbs by Peter Kreeft entitled A Turn of the Clock. Do you want some samples? Under the title, “The New Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God,” Kreeft writes: “If there’s a Big Bang, there must be a Big Banger.” Then there’s this one, under the heading, “The World’s Worst Smell”: “Bodies stink after they die; dead souls, before.” (Think about that!) Or how about this contrast between heaven … Continue reading Auto Mechanics in Hell (Ecclesiastes 9:11–18)

Before you watch or read today’s Daily Word, please read Ecclesiastes 9:1–6. In the Hands of God (Ecclesiastes 9:1–6), posted with vodpod ___________________________________ Ecclesiastes 9:1–6 teaches that your life is in the hands of God. Obviously, in a general sense, everyone’s life is in God’s hands. He is the Creator of “the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), and therefore everything in them belongs to him (Psalm 24:1). He is the Provider of the needs of all people. As Jesus said, “he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and … Continue reading In the Hands of God (Ecclesiastes 9:1–6)

Before you watch or read today’s Daily Word, read Ecclesiastes 8.14–17. Joy is a Deliberate Choice (Ecclesiastes 8:14-17), posted with vodpod ___________________________________ In Ecclesiastes 8.14–17, the Preacher identifies two realities that we all experience on the journey through life: injustice and ignorance. Both are obstacles in our path, and both have the power to turn us aside from the road to heaven, if we let them. But there is a way through the obstacles, the Preacher tells us; it is the way of joy as a deliberate choice. Consider our experience of injustice. Long ago, Aristotle defined justice as treating … Continue reading Joy Is a Deliberate Choice (Ecclesiastes 8:14–17)

Beifore you watch or read today’s Daily Word, please read Ecclesiastes 8:1–9. Wisdom and Government (Ecclesiastes 8:1–9), posted with vodpod     A wise person obeys the law. That, in a nutshell, is the message of Ecclesiastes 8:1–9. Like so much else in Ecclesiastes, the message is obvious and common sensical, but it also raises difficult questions for those who live under difficult governments. The Preacher begins with two questions and two observations. The questions are rhetorical. Wisdom makes a person incomparably valuable because he understands God, the world, and himself. The observations relate to the effects of wisdom, which … Continue reading Wisdom and Government (Ecclesiastes 8:1–9)

What Is Wrong with the World Is Us (Ecclesiaste…, posted with vodpod Let us stipulate, as lawyers say, that the message of Ecclesiastes 7:15–29 is an unexpectedly weird one to find in the Bible, at first glance anyway. It seems alternately despairing (verse 15), cynical (verses 16–17), common sensical (verse 18–22), keenly aware of man’s intellectual limitations (verses 23–24), misogynist (verses 25–28), and acutely cognizant of the origins of man’s problems (verse 29). We expect common sense, keen awareness, and acute cognizance in God’s Word, but despair, cynicism and misogyny? Not so much. So what should we do with the … Continue reading What Is Wrong with the World Is Us (Ecclesiastes 7:15–29)