Ecclesiastes on The Soul

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Distraction is the Greatest Threat to Churches

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1 Kings 19:11-13, Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 , Isaiah 30:15, Luke 10:38-42 , Mark 1:35 , Psalm 46:10

The journalist Andrew Sullivan has some strong words of advice for the modern church, If the churches came to understand that the greatest threat to faith today is not hedonism but distraction, p...

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Defining the Soul is Difficult

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James Bryan Smith

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Genesis 2:7, 1 Kings 19:4-8 , Ecclesiastes 12:7 , Matthew 11:28-30, 3 John 1:2, Psalm 43:5, Psalm 42:5

The soul can be difficult to define. The great theologian Karl Barth confessed, “We shall search the Old and New Testaments in vain for a theory of the relation between the soul and body.” Your soul i...

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John Ortberg

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Isaiah 55:1-2, Exodus 16:11-15 , Ecclesiastes 3:11, John 4:13-14, Psalm 42:1-2

The soul’s infinite capacity to desire is the mirror image of God’s infinite capacity to give. . . . The unlimited need of the soul matches the unlimited grace of God.

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Distraction is the Greatest Threat to Churches

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