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living life under the sun ecclesiastes

living life under the sun ecclesiastes. In Search of the American Dream. What is the American Dream?. Wealth Family Long Life.

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living life under the sun ecclesiastes

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  1. livinglifeunderthesun ecclesiastes In Search of the American Dream

  2. What is the American Dream?

  3. Wealth Family Long Life

  4. God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil. Ecclesiastes 6:2 (NIV)

  5. A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. Ecclesiastes 6:3 (NIV)

  6. For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone? Ecclesiastes 6:12 (NIV)

  7. We Need Some Perspective

  8. Some things are better than others

  9. A good name – Fine perfume Death days – Birthdays Mourning – Feasting Sorrow – Laughter Heed the wise – Listen to fools The End – The Beginning

  10. This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes. Ecclesiastes 7:29 (NIV)

  11. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 2 Corinthians 5:16 (NIV)

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