Joy or Bitterness

Joy or Bitterness

”How wonderful to be wise, to analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person’s face, softening its harshness.“ Ecclesiastes 8:1 NLT Even and especially in the dark times that try one’s soul, wisdom is a blessing.  We’re often too fickle and too easily...
Defeating Anger & Impatience

Defeating Anger & Impatience

”Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.“ Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 ESV Better is the end of a thing that puts the...
Biblical Rebukes & Conflict

Biblical Rebukes & Conflict

”The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.” Ecclesiastes 7:4-5 Fools, the Bible tells us, are blind to spiritual truth...
The Real Worth of Wealth

The Real Worth of Wealth

”There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind (to introduce a discussion on the value of riches with the statement, “there is an evil,” ought to help us understand the context of wealth in God’s world.  And we again read, under the...
On Sabbaths & the Love of Money

On Sabbaths & the Love of Money

”When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.“ Ecclesiastes 5:11-12 ESV...
The Subtle Sin of Covetousness

The Subtle Sin of Covetousness

”He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.“ Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV The saying that “money can’t buy happiness” is well known.  And not only well known, but universally accepted.  Well, at least on...