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04/05/2011

Looking Into Our Time

When we talk about life “under the sun”, we’re talking about how we live out our ordinary day to day existence. The book of Ecclesiastes attributes our lives with the futility of the toil we experience in our time here on earth; how all that we do in this life is meaningless and how nothing is ever

04/03/2011

One area of struggle for me is the wasted times which always have been so hurtful. Recently God has opened my eyes to realize that the reason they exist is not because of lack of tangible accomplishments in those times, but that I do not use those moments for and with God. I remember during a worshi

04/02/2011

Throughout our lives under the sun, we are faced with countless decisions that, in many respects, determine the direction that our lives will take. As we mature, we learn to make our decisions for the best possible benefit to ourselves and to those around us. But as we see in the clip above, the t

04/02/2011

God gives us ‘wake up’ calls all the time through the Bible, His ‘alarm’ to the incredible reality we have because of Him and His plans for our times.

In the above video, we see clips of scenes from various movies that depict the characters “waking up” or coming to a realization of something. Has there ever been a moment in your life where this has happened to you?

04/01/2011

God chooses to ‘buy’ us out of our old ways, free us from the ways we live our time that are so self-focused or contrary to God’s incredibly loving ways.

Many of us can look back on life and say that we have lost something, that at one time everything went wrong, or that we are still trapped in the tyranny of time and moments that hold us back or keep us from living freely as we desire. Time has a way of ‘marking’ and reminding us of the difficul

04/01/2011

We struggle with the cost. Whether the cost is money, time, pride, the greater the cost, the greater the struggle. What if the cost was our very life itself?

When we are about to do something that will come at a cost to us, we debate what we should do. Do I buy that $1000 camera? Do I admit that I made a mistake? Do I offer to help a coworker and stay late at work, or finish up my own work and go home? We struggle with the cost. Whether the cost is

04/01/2011

The average person gets 1 interruption every 8 minutes, or approximately 7 an hour, or 50-60 per day.

The average person gets 1 interruption every 8 minutes, or approximately 7 an hour, or 50-60 per day. The average interruption takes 5 minutes, totaling about 4 hours or 50% of the average workday. 80% of those interruptions are typically rated as "little value" or "no value" creating approximately

04/01/2011

Throughout time, the people of God lived each day, doing their work, yet all were anticipating some kind of moment...

Tick tock, tick tock. We hear it when we wake up. We hear it when we go to sleep. From the time we rise to the time we go down for the night, the sound of a ticking clock constantly resonates in the humdrum of life. In the midst of our routine, we all crave a moment of excitement to punctuate the

03/31/2011

From beginning to end, it is a matter of time... at least that is our culture’s perspective on things.

Most of us would immediately associate walking as getting from point A to point B. There is a beginning and destination, and in most cases, the time that is spent between point A and point B is something we try to shorten as much as possible. From beginning to end, it is a matter of time... at l

03/31/2011

What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil 'under the sun'?

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

03/31/2011

Although there can be many interpretations for the music video, one could look at it and say that the main singer possibly wants to go back in time and undo the mistakes he had made or that he wants everything to go back to what it once was so that he can somehow change or revive the relationship he

03/30/2011

God has purposed in our lives everything according to His purpose and perfect will.

In the song ‘Seasons of Love’, the singers ponder how to measure the life of a person in the span of a year. Is time measured with the things that we accomplish, with the relationships we keep, or with the laughter and tears we experience? “525,600” references the number of minutes in a year.