Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11:1 NASB Cast – When was the last time you threw away something important? Hopefully, you can’t think of such a foolish act. No one throws away what is valuable. If that’s the case, then why does…
While I was in London, I had the opportunity to spend a day with Steve Maltz, a wonderful Jewish man who is a strong believer in Yeshua HaMashiach. He took me on a tour of East London, a place that was once the home of Jewish life in England and is now, unbelievably, a center…
But, see, this I did find: God made men plain, but they have engaged in too much reasoning. Ecclesiastes 7:29 NJPS Too much reasoning – In our culture, this statement must seem nearly absurd. We laud reasoning. We extol intellect. In fact, our culture believes that the solution of every problem begins in the mind. …
What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 6:9 NASB What the eyes see – This verse is difficult to translate because the Hebrew text leaves a lot of ambiguity. Fox suggests, “Better the sight of the eyes than the wandering of…
Here are pictures of my college chapel, the dining hall of Trinity where I ate many meals, books in the Old Library and, last, yours truly, taken in the same spot where I once stood with doctoral robes.
The image below is all that is left of a Catholic priory that once stood on this location in London. For hundreds of years, this site was the location of men who served God as they knew Him. Today it is a massive office complex. The name of the street reflects its history – literally…
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Only this, I have found, as a real good: that one should eat and drink and get pleasure with all the gains he makes under the sun, during the numbered days of life that God has given him; for that is his portion. Ecclesiastes 5:17 NJPS Real good – There are two views of what…
