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ECCLESIASTES 7: ETERNITY
This is part 9 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes.Today it is universal to create a tagline for your book cover. If Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes today, the tagline of the book could be, “Learning to live by preparing to die.” We will see why in...
ECCLESIASTES 6: DOMINION
This is part 8 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Recall that the concept of hebel—though unnamed then—was introduced in Genesis 3 at the fall of man. Ecclesiastes 6 puts on display another facet of hebel that combats the good order God created in...
ECCLESIASTES 5: SATISFACTION
This is part 7 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. We have a trail of bread crumbs. There isn’t much gain under the sun, but Solomon keeps dropping hints that there are things that are better than others. Wisdom is better than foolishness....
ECCLESIASTES 4: COMPETITION
This is part 6 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes.Hebel even affects relationships. Oppression of poor people who have no one to protect them is a grievous evil under the sun (4:1-3). Their lives are marked by hebel. What meaning can be felt or...
ECCLESIASTES 3: TIME
This is part 5 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes.Remember the “hamster wheel” feeling that Solomon introduced in 1:3-7? Solomon brings it up again and in even greater detail. Take a look at his math in 3:1-8: There is a time and season for...
ECCLESIASTES 2: REST
This is part 4 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. In modern parlance, Solomon “did us a solid” (or did us a great favor). Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 documents Solomon’s foray into chasing after meaning by any means possible. This section is intensely...
ECCLESIASTES: HEBEL
This is part 3 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes.In the imperfect-but-good world Solomon inherited from his father, righteousness was still expected to rule the day. With wisdom in this context, Solomon discerned a 1-to-1 correlation between...
ECCLESIASTES 1: HYPOTHESIS
This is part 2 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Qoheleth (the Collector or Assembler - Solomon) begins chapter 1 with a hypothesis: everything in this life is ultimately hebel (the Hebrew word that is often translated vanity, meaningless, vapor,...
ECCLESIASTES: INTRODUCTION
This is part 1 in a many-part series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is widely believed to be the most difficult to interpret of all of the Bible, even more so than Revelation. Perhaps the central reason for this difficulty is that the main message of the...
LOLLIPOP MOMENTS
The following is a guest post, contributed by one of the OPEN Services team members in USA.I watched a Ted talk the other day, about how simple interactions can be more far-reaching than you know. The speaker told a story about how handing out a lollipop on Freshman...
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