An Informed Work Ethic

Ecclesiastes 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them What did you do yesterday? Did you get anything...

Wisdom Rewards

Ecclesiastes 7:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee Proverbs says that foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. All of us have been children. We don’t begin by having a clue about life. We begin with having...

The Only Labor That Will Last

Ecclesiastes 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me Not too long ago my wife and I went to the house where my she grew up. She lived there pretty much her entire girlhood. Her...

Three Questions

Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him What comes to your mind when you think of Proverbs 31? Maybe you haven’t thought about it or aren’t familiar with it, but it talks about the virtuous woman. She is sometimes called the...

Where Will Your Why Take You?

Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun Vanity, vexation, and meaninglessness, those are the apparent meaning of Ecclesiastes. It makes sense that the book of Ecclesiastes would be so iconic in modern culture,...