ECCLESIASTES 11: REJOICING

ECCLESIASTES 11: REJOICING

This is part 13 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Life is unpredictable. You can do everything Proverbs suggests and lose your life to a wicked king, a car accident, or a natural disaster. Conversely, you can be wicked and prosper—for now (but...
ECCLESIASTES 10: PREPARATION

ECCLESIASTES 10: PREPARATION

This is part 12 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon is back to his old (good) ways again. In Ecclesiastes 10, he uses proverbs to teach nuggets of wisdom. This means that though hebel effects everything, it doesn’t negate everything. So...
ECCLESIASTES 2: REST

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...
JEREMIAH 44: THE LORD WORKS THROUGH B4T

JEREMIAH 44: THE LORD WORKS THROUGH B4T

This is post 9 of 9 in a series about the book of Jeremiah. Data is a tricky thing. When people say, “the data doesn’t lie,” I often wonder how hard they’ve looked. True, the bare facts of the data technically don’t lie, but it’s actually fairly easy to make a large...
JEREMIAH 18: THE LORD DESIGNS

JEREMIAH 18: THE LORD DESIGNS

This is post 5 of 9 in a series about the book of Jeremiah. As is very common in Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to him (18:1). This time it instructed him to go to the potter’s house. He walked in and saw with his eyes before hearing directly, and then after he...
TAKING THE LONG VIEW

TAKING THE LONG VIEW

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 ESV) As you read through Hebrews 11 you see sentences like this: “By faith so and so did such and such” that was completely out of the ordinary and sometimes even...