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Once again the pundit pulls back and gives us a glimpse of a life worth living. This time he focuses, not on the rhythm of earthly life, but on our relationship with God. He is pointing out here that how we relate to God matters. We were created in a very specific order; when sin […]

We live in a world where we are more connected to one another than human beings have ever been but we are also lonelier. Companionship is not simply the presence of people or the accessibility to another voice; it is to belong. Our loneliness comes, not from not having enough people, but from the feeling […]

The pundit returns to his pessimism, this time pointing out the observable injustice of the world. He does this by contrasting human beings and animals. His point is that humans, having been given the ability to reason and a conscience should be more just than the animal kingdom. Yet, in his experience, this isn’t the […]

The way that Ecclesiastes is laid out gives us these recalibrations every few chapters; this is the first one. The intent is to shock us into disillusionment and then give us a well ordered solution to the problem of life. Here, the author steps back from declaring everything meaningless, to providing an order that makes […]

In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week. Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers. This is not because we have to; the real […]

I read a quote the other day from Jack Black that said: I’m fairly certain YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people. If you did not know, YOLO is short for ‘you only live once,’ which is the motto of those under 30 (even those who now reject the phrase as ‘so yesterday’). Carpe […]

One place people look for to find meaning in this life is knowledge; the more you know, the better off you will be. In modern society, we have a wealth of information at our fingertips at all times and we assume this makes us better off, but Solomon speaks from a place of authority as […]

In the first verse we are introduced to the author: The preacher, who channels the life experience of Solomon, son of David. Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, after being given the gift of wisdom by God (1 Kings 3). With this wisdom came wealth and power. Solomon had at his fingertips the […]