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Ps Eric - Time after Time | GLE

James 4:13-17 (NKJV)

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)

Purpose:  Intention/intent/objective/aim/goal/reason

Season:  Appointed Occasion

Soren Kierkegaard:  "When the disciples began to seem 'busy,' Christ set a little child in their midst.  The crowd that storms and blusters in the bewildered name of the century might well tempt a serious man to set just such an unfortunate sufferer in their midst.  The sight of him certainly would not detain anyone that willed anything eternal; but busyness has nothing whatever to do with the Eternal."

Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 (NKJV)

Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 (NKJV)

Romans 8:18-22 (NKJV)

Groan:  To moan jointly/groan together/experience a common calamity

Groan (Verse 23):  To sigh/murmur/pray inaudibly/grudge

Everything :  The Whole

Beautiful:  Fitting & Appropriate

Daniel 2:21 (NKJV)

Genesis 1:31 (NKJV)

"Everything" = Same Hebrew Word as in Ecclesiastes 3:11

Augustine:  "You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they can find peace in you."

C.S. Lewis:  

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”



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october 19, 2025

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Ps Eric - From Philosophical to Practical (continued) | GLE

3rd Carrot: Labor & Success

  • 2 Chronicles 8:4-6 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 12:4 (NKJV)

4th Carrot: Lust

  • Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 11:1-9 (NKJV)

The Quest (Summary):

  1. Comedy, love to laugh

  2. Alcohol

  3. Real Estate = 14 Years to Build...Vacation Homes, Properties

  4. Gardens, Gardening

  5. Leisure/Servants = 35,000 Employees

  6. Animals Imported

  7. Wealth = 25 Tons of Gold

  8. Music, Musical Instruments

  9. Harem/Sex

  10. Famous

  11. Job (King)

  • Mark 8:35-37 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 (NKJV)

Voltaire: "I hate life and yet I am afraid to die!"

  • 1 Peter 3:10-12 (NKJV)

  • Psalm 34:12 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:18-26

  • Luke 12:13-21 (NKJV)

  • Psalm 16:11 (NKJV)

1.) Monotony of Life (1:4-11)

2.) Vanity of Wisdom (1:12-18)

3.) Vanity of Pleasure & Wealth (2:1-11)

4.) Certainty of Death (2:12-23)


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october 12, 2025

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Ps Eric - From Philosophical to Practical | GLE

Ecclesiastes 1:12-14 (NKJV)

1.) Life is Tough


Grasp:  To take or seize firmly.  To control.  To enclose and hold with the fingers or arms.


  • 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:15 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 (NKJV)

a.) Solomon had a Mind

  • We only have 1/3 of the Proverbs he wrote (1,000)

b.) Solomon had Means

  • 80,000 Stone Cutters

  • 70,000 Day Laborers

  • 3,600 Middle Managers

c.) Solomon had Money

  • Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia:  14 year span (building), spent $7 Billion, $150 million annual income, $25 million to ross land (country)

T.S. Eliot: "All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance."


Unknown: "A wise man is never happy."


Peter Kreeft:  "Diversion is the first and most effective way to hide the elephant (Big questions/issues of life).  An elephant can be hidden by mice, if there are enough of them.  So our world is full of thousands of little things, which keep us diverted from the one big thing.  We are kept so busy that we have no time to think."


Commentator:  "Our tendency toward busyness often masks a deep spiritual malady."


Allan Boom (Political Philosopher): "In frenzied work and frenzied play so as to not face the fact, not to look into the abyss."


1st Carrot: Entertainment


  • Ecclesiastes 2:1-2 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 17:22 (NKJV)

  • 1 Timothy 6:17 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 14:13 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:3 (NKJV)

2nd Carrot: Liquor

  • 1 Kings 4:22-23 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 31:1-7 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 23:29-35 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:4-8 (NKJV)

3rd Carrot: Labor & Success

  • 2 Chronicles 8:4-6 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 12:4 (NKJV)



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october 5, 2025

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Ps Eric - The Backslider Blues | GLE

Pessimism:  An inclination to take the least favorable view (as of events) or to expect the worst.

Bible Verses:

  • Ecclesiastes 1:1-2 (NKJV)

Solomon:

  1. Preacher

  2. Son of David

  3. King of Jerusalem

Vanity:

  • Used 38 times

  • Emptiness, futility, vapor/wisp of vapor/soap bubbles, meaningless

Interview with Laura Bush:

  • "Humbled and honored, proud of my husband's accomplishments"

Sholom Aleichem Describing Life:

  • "A blister on top of a tumor, and a boil on top of that."

Timeless & Timely:

  1. Saw Injustice to the Poor (4:1-3)

  2. Crooked Politics (5:8)

  3. Incompetent Leaders (10:6-7)

  4. Guilty people allowed to commit more crime (8:11)

  5. Materialism (5:10)

  6. Desire "Good old days" (7:10)

Bible Verses:

  • Ecclesiastes 1:3-4 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 4:29-34 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 10:1-9 (NKJV)

  • Matthew 12:42 (NKJV)

C.S. Lewis:

  • "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Bible Verses:

  • Ecclesiastes 1:5-7 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:8-11 (NKJV)

Thomas Edison:

  • "Only bringing out the secrets of nature and applying them for the happiness of mankind."

Bible Verses:

  • 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)


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september 21, 2025

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Ps Eric - Generational Curses vs Generational Blessings | GLE

Image 1:

  • Aztec Warrior

Image 2:

  • Three Cultures Square

Bible Verses:

  • Exodus 20:4-6 (NKJV)

  • Ezekiel 18:2-4 (NKJV)

  • Ezekiel !8:10-20 (NKJV)

Image 3:

  • Jonathan Edwards

Legacy Matters:

  • A great example of this is Jonathan Edwards, the Puritan Preacher from the 1700s.  Jonathan and his wife Sarah left a great godly legacy for his 11 children.
    At the turn of the 20th century, American educator and pastor A.E. Winship decided to trace out the descendants of Jonathan Edwards almost 150 years after his death.  His findings are astounding, especially when compared to a man known as Max Jukes.  Jukes’ legacy came to the forefront when the family trees of 42 different men in the New York prison system traced back to him.

    Image 4:

  • Jukes Descendant

Legacy Matters Part 2:

  • Jonathan Edwards’ godly legacy includes: 1 U.S. Vice-President, 3 U.S. Senators, 3 governors, 3 mayors, 13 college presidents, 30 judges, 65 professors, 80 public office holders, 100 lawyers and 100 missionaries.
    Max Jukes’ descendants included: 7 murderers, 60 thieves, 50 women of debauchery, 130 other convicts. 310 paupers (with over 2,300 years lived in poorhouses) 400 who were physically wrecked by indulgent living.
    It was estimated that Max Juke’s descendants cost the state more than $1,250,000.


  • "He lived much as the backwoodsmen upon our frontiers [in 1877] now do. He is described as 'a hunter and fisher, a hard drinker, jolly and companionable, averse to steady toil,' working hard by spurts and idling by turns, becoming blind in his old age. He had a numerous progeny, some of them almost certainly illegitimate." = About Max Jukes

Bible Verses:

  • Malachi 4:6 (NKJV)

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ellenbrook hub

september 7, 2024

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