Sermons on Adversity

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 TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SERMON CLICK THE LISTEN BUTTON ABOVE 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…