Ecclesiastes 7: 29 | The Pastor's Workshop

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Death Valley, Denver, and Everest: The Pointless Comparison of Human Virtue

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Romans 3:10-12, James 2:10, Luke 18:9-14, Matthew 5:48, Ecclesiastes 7:20

To see with God’s eyes, suppose we were to compare one person’s morals to being in Death Valley, 280 feet below sea level; another person’s morals to being in Denver, the mile-high city; and another p...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Proverbs 26:4-5, Job 2:9-10, Romans 7:19-25, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Psalm 42:5

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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The Fall of the Leaf; a Sacred Ode

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2 Chronicles 29:15, Psalm 144:4, Job 7:6-10, Job 14:1, Psalm 78:39, Psalm 103:15-16, Psalm 90:9, James 4:14, 1 Peter 1:24, Ecclesiastes 1:4, Ecclesiastes 3:18-21

See the leaves around us falling, Dry and withered to the ground; Thus to thoughtless mortals calling, In a sad and solemn sound "Youth on length of days presuming, Who the paths of pleasure tre...

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Just a stain in the soil

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William Rowley

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Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 3:20, Genesis 18:27, James 4:14, Psalm 90:12, Psalm 39:4, 1 Peter 2:24-25, Psalm 90:10, Psalm 78:39, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Psalm 39:5, Psalm 144:4, Job 14:1, Psalm 103:15-16, Job 7:6-7, Genesis 2:7

I love a British TV show called Time Team. Hosted by Tony Robinson, a team of archeologists descend on a site in Britain and excavate for three days. Inevitably, the archeologists unearth the dead...