by Katie Erickson
Power and money often go hand-in-hand, and that’s true for the book of Ecclesiastes as well. At the beginning of chapter 4, we saw the Teacher’s thoughts on power and its abuse, and how meaningless power can be in this life. In today’s passage of Ecclesiastes 5:8-12,...
by Charlie Wolcott
One of the major problems in American Christianity today is an over superfluous and rather flippant view of God. Because as Christians we are under grace instead of the law, many have completely misconstrued this teaching into a form of antinomian thinking (that is,...
by Jason DeZurik
As I continue my “The Founding Matters” series, I’d like to take a look at some foundational beliefs in our Christian faith that are throughout our society even to this date. I am not implying that everyone believes these to be true, but many knowingly or unknowingly...
by Katie Erickson
So far, the book of Ecclesiastes has consisted of the Teacher trying to find meaning and purpose in this life, and finding that every aspect of life is meaningless from a worldly sense. Here, in today’s passage of Ecclesiastes 5:1-7, he takes that one step further and...
by Charlie Wolcott
God is holy. This is a statement we love to say and sing about, but it is something we often don’t truly grasp. “Holy” means to be separated, to be unique, set apart. God is holy, and not just holy; he is holy, holy, holy. God is not like us. He is unique. He does...
by Jason DeZurik
Apologetics. What is it?
I found this definition for the word: apologetics are reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine.
1 Peter 3:15 is a great text to see why apologetics is so important to witnessing...
by Katie Erickson
In the previous section of Ecclesiastes 4:1-8, the Teacher talked about achievement and power, and how it’s all meaningless in the context of this world. In today’s passage of Ecclesiastes 4:9-16, we first see some encouragement to work together and then we see his...
by Charlie Wolcott
Many professors in universities today, especially in the philosophies and sciences, tell their students to question everything. But do they really mean that? I have seen many times that the only time they actually want anything questioned relates to any God-established...
by Jason DeZurik
A hard lesson of the tough narrow path that Jesus Christ speaks of in Matthew 7:13-14 is the lesson of allowing those in leadership positions the honor and freedom to do as they want. Romans 13:1-4 is very clear about who puts who in authority regarding government and...
by Katie Erickson
At the end of Ecclesiastes 3, the Teacher reminded us that we are all mortal and we’ll all die someday, no matter what we accomplish in this life. Now in today’s passage of Ecclesiastes 4:1-8, he begins to talk about ambition and power.
While we are all mortals and...
by Charlie Wolcott
A few weeks ago, my church simulcasted the XO Marriage Conference hosted by Jimmy Evans at Gateway Church in the Dallas area. During the conference he revealed a very interested, well researched statistic. In studying a multitude of marriages, for marriages that reported...
by Jason DeZurik
I am going to take a quick break from my “The Foundation Matters” series to just touch on something that has become quite a problem throughout our society. It seems many of us have learned how not to be “present” right where we are at for the moment. I encourage you...
by Chad Koons
A loving God wouldn’t do that! Shouldn’t Jesus have tried harder?! I was astounded when I realized what was going on here, it changed the way that I see God’s interactions with mankind.
In Mark 10:17-31, the “Rich Young Ruler” ran up to Jesus and fell on his knees before...
by Katie Erickson
While we know that everything has its season in God’s plan and we are able to discover our purpose with God’s help, we also need to remember that everything isn’t always sunshine and rainbows as our passage today from Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 tells us. Evil does exist in...
