Solomon continues to counsel us how to live wisely as we near the end of Ecclesiastes. Through a series of images and analogies he give us concrete advice how to…
Wisdom is sweet, but foolishness stinks. Todays’ passage gives us wise counsel for living – responding wisely to fools in authority, recognizing that foolishness is self-destructive, and to use words…
The unexpected calamity: illness, job loss, accident, fire or flood, death, is going to happen to each one of us, sooner or later. And the question arises, “If God is…
Very few of us really likes to live under authority – obeying someone else is not really our favorite thing. Nevertheless, the Teacher of Ecclesiastes maintains that wisdom requires we…
A complex passage, the Teacher in Ecclesiastes recognizes that often life isn’t fair: why is one good person’s life cut short and another good person is preserved through incredible danger?…
The Teacher in Ecclesiastes begins today’s text, about living wisely or being foolish, by saying the day of your death is better than the day of your birth. Funerals are…
