2024-09-20 A Good Name
Ecclesiastes A good name is better than good oil, And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth. Ecclesiastes 7:1 NASB In Biblical times, ointments were used to improve one’s…
2024-09-19 Planning with God
Ecclesiastes Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is. For there are many words which increase futility. What…
2024-09-18 The Grateful Soul
Ecclesiastes All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite (that is, the soul) is not satisfied. Ecclesiastes 6:7 NASB1995 (Read Ecclesiastes 6:1-9) Looking at things from an earthly perspective, Solomon tells…
2024-09-17 The Lasting Riches
Ecclesiastes The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12 (Read Ecclesiastes 5:9-20) Two thousand years…
2024-09-16 The Highest Power
Ecclesiastes "If you see the oppression of the poor and the ruthless denial of justice and rights in a province, do not be shocked over the matter, for one higher than the high is on…
2024-09-14 Weekend Rest Journal
1. This week, we examined the roles of laypeople in the congregation. Philip in the Book of Acts is an example of a layperson who was sent as an evangelist. Philip in Acts is not…
2024-09-13 Younger Men
Encouraging the Roles of Laypeople Exhort the young men to be sober-minded, in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be…
2024-09-12 Younger Women
Encouraging the Roles of Laypeople The young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be…
2024-09-11 Older Women
Encouraging the Roles of Laypeople The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things– that they admonish the young women to love their…
2024-09-10 Older Men
Encouraging the Roles of Laypeople The older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience. Titus 2:2 The Apostle Paul beings by instructing Titus to encourage the older men in their…