If Ecclesiastes is good for anything it is certainly good for pondering the meaning of life! In chapter 2 we find the “preacher” or Solomon seemingly mulling over the question, “How should I spend my life? And here we find some interesting things. We find his first try at squeezing the meaning out of life…

I’ve started reading Ecclesiastes. Most stay away from this book due to its gloominess. It is written by Solomon, King David’s son, who asked the Lord for wisdom. He is considered to be the wisest man who ever lived. He wrote Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. As I began to study, I pondered the…

Mark 16: 14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is…

Mark 15:16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting…

Mark 15:6-15  Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. 9 And he answered them, saying,…

Matt 14:66 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the…