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Photo by Victoriano Izquierdo on Unsplash Read:  Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 This question is similar to its opposite: "Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?" Both questions refer to what seems to be the perplexing injustice we witness every day. The 73rd Psalm is our answer to the very same questions that also tormented the psalmist. Finding himself in terrible distress and agony of soul he writes, “But as for me, my

Photo by Jon Flobrant on Unsplash Read: Ecclessiastes 7   I think about death a lot. Don’t think I’m weird.  I didn’t used to.  It’s just that I’ve reached an age where I probably have less years on earth than I have now lived.  Death—my death--has become more real.  Some dear friends have died.  Some family members have died.  Some of my friends’ parents have died.  Some of my friends’ children have died. Just recently, Tim Keller, a brilliant, winsome champion of our faith, passed into glory; though I

  Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash As I am writing this, I am a few hours from loading up my children in the car to join Jerry in Georgia for the funeral of his mother. It is times like these that make life and the end of that life become more real and make you think about what to do with that life. We have seen this thought in Ecclesiastes over and over