May 14, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Solomon, the royal preacher, is musing about life – its qualities, problems and purpose. He has tasted, tested and eventually rejected a great many things which lesser men think are important to life. He deals with the same things men and women are pursuing nearly...
May 13, 2018 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
I need your help this morning. After spending more than four hours developing this message on Friday, as I was looking at it yesterday it appeared to be very confusing. I considered scrapping it, but didn’t feel the Lord’s approval in doing that. So I am asking you...
May 10, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was the goal of the often revered Puritans to establish a society which governed its citizens from the cradle to the grave based upon what its leaders considered to be pure religious truth. They came to this country seeking freedom from the interference of others,...
May 7, 2018 | Sunday Evening
One of the problems in studying Ecclesiastes is we often don’t know which Solomon is speaking to us. Is this Solomon the undeniable intellectual genius – the super-smart child of Adam. Or is this the other son of Adam – the sinful, self-filled reprobate. At...
May 6, 2018 | Sunday Morning
In the Old Testament, there are three major characters who stand head and shoulders above all others. And they don’t include King Saul, through whom that phrase was coined. I Samuel 9:2 says, that Saul was “a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not...
May 3, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
C.H. Spurgeon loved to read and owned a library of over 12,000 volumes. Reading was not a hobby to Spurgeon, and it wasn’t for his recreation. He believed that it was essential toward the growth of the mind – and more particularly of the spirit. Beginning early in his...
Apr 30, 2018 | Sunday Evening
In this chapter Solomon makes a change in his writing style. He drops the autobiographical form of the first two chapters and temporarily waxes philosophical. He could have put this to music and added another million dollars to his already fabulous fortune. Although...
