Old Testament
Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes 1Read: Ecclesiastes 1:11 Devotional What if this is all there is? What if take our last breath, die, and then...oblivion? Nothing? Is time doomed to repeat itself? A closed loop, moving in closed circles, ever causing the people within its…1 noteEcclesiastes 2Read: Ecclesiastes 2:12-26 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done? Devotional There was once a prank call that was popular at my…1 noteEcclesiastes 3There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4…1 noteEcclesiastes 4Read Ecclesiastes 4:4-16 Devotional A few years ago there was a Cadillac commercial about Americans working hard. "You work hard, you create your own luck, and you believe anything is possible. As for all the stuff...that's the upside of…1 noteEcclesiastes 5Read Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Devotional In the spirit of today's passage. No written devotional…1 noteEcclesiastes 6Let's skip to the end Ecclesiastes for a second. In 12:9, we switch from "The Teacher" (the bulk of who's speaking in the book) to an unnamed editor or narrator, who has compiled The Teacher's writings. These verses are notoriously hard to…1 noteEcclesiastes 7Read: Ecclesiastes 7:23--8:15 Today, we're going to focus on just 8:2-7 though. I think The Message actually has the best translation of this passage: 2-7 Do what your king commands; you gave a sacred oath of obedience. Don’t worryingly…1 noteEcclesiastes 8Read Ecclesiastes8:16--9:12 (verses emphasized in the devotional in BOLD) My college had a large American Sign Language interpreting program. Our chapel services included ASL interpreters. It was not uncommon to see both hearing and deaf…1 note