Sermons on Adversity
Acts 18
What You Can’t Learn in Seminary Introduction: The road to virtually any worthwhile goal is long and tough. To become a pilot in the U.S. Airforce you have to start with a college degree. If you make it through the brutal application procedure (over 95% washout) you spend three months in Officer Training School. Then comes a year of undergraduate pilot training, two years of operational training, and two more years of co-pilot training. The goal of becoming a captain in the Air Force from…
Ecclesiastes 7:1-20
The Test of Adversity Is Easier than the Test of Prosperity A well-known Hollywood actress once said, “I know what it’s like to be poor. And I know what it’s like to be rich. And let me tell you, rich is better.”[i] But Solomon would disagree. I don’t know whether he was ever poor, but he certainly was rich, and his personal testimony in chapter 5 and 6 of Ecclesiastes is that wealth is not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, prosperity in general does not live up to its billing.…