To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Don Richardson didn’t know it, but God had prepared the way long before he and his family moved to one of the… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Of all the songs that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, which has the oldest lyrics? That would be Turn,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Growing up in the 1950s, my brothers and I did what we assumed every other American boy was doing. We collected baseball cards. At… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is widely acknowledged as one of the most extraordinary musical geniuses of all time. The only people who didn’t seem… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. There’s no piece of real estate on Earth quite like the DMZ. The Korean Demilitarized Zone, which roughly follows the 38th parallel, divides North… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. It is a dreadful thing to be forgotten. For some people, the very fear of that thing is a real thing. It’s… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Sometimes, in order to discover the truth, you have to step up and find out for yourself. That was the conclusion of Barry Marshall,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. It’s a wonderful thing to live under the sun. Some of us may be reluctant to affirm that statement in the midst of a… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. “It was a dark and stormy night…” That’s the opening line from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It is widely… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Does this guy look familiar? He’s The Most Interesting Man in the World. In truth, he’s an actor named Jonathan Goldsmith who starred in a series of TV commercials for a brand of Mexican beer between 2006 and 2016. Against a backdrop of gentle Spanish guitar riffs, a narrator would calmly recount the latest of… Read more »
