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Day 47 Video Devotional: “If Jesus is Alive”Day 47: If Jesus is Alive Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, April 16, 2017 Here’s the video devotional for Day 47 of “Faces Around the Cross.” Child of God, behold the risen Christ! You can never be alone again. Sleeping Together and Christ’s Global CauseI received an email from a man who asked a very particular question. He is a Christian, divorced, and in his forties. He met a Christian woman who seems to be an answer to prayer. Over time they have fallen in love and hope to get married eventually. But they can’t marry right now because […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 37. ALONE AT THE TOPAgain I saw something meaningless under the sun: There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless-a […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 36. THE RARE JEWEL OF CONTENTMENTAnd I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. The fool folds his hands and ruins himself. Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 Over three hundred years […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 35. BROKEN HEARTS ON EVERY CORNERAgain I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed-and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors-and they have no comforter. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 34. UNANSWERED QUESTIONS“All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?” So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 33. THOUGHTS FROM THE GRAVEYARDI also thought, “As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 32. ORIGINAL SINAnd I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment-wickedness was there, in the place of justice- wickedness was there. I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.” Ecclesiastes 3:16-17 […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 31. HERE COMES THE JUDGE31. Here Comes the Judge Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. Ecclesiastes 3:15 The wrath of God is a forgotten doctrine, even in the evangelical church. Part of the problem lies in our definition. When we use the word […] Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living – 30. NOTHING LEFT BUT GOD30. Nothing Left But God I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it, so men will revere him. Ecclesiastes 3:14 I believe that God orchestrates the affairs of life-both the good and the bad-to bring us to the […] | Categories |
