Read the whole Bible in one year
Week 36, September 10, 2011:  “A Time for Every Matter”

This week's Reading:  September 3rd to 9th

Old Testament:  Ecclesiastes 4:1 to Isaiah 5:30
New Testament:  2 Corinthians 6:14 to 11:15
Psalms:  Psalm 47:1 to 53:6
Proverbs:  Proverbs 22:16 to 22:29


Old Testament
If Solomon believed in God, why did he write about so many things that are apparently wrong with the world? Specifically, Ecclesiastes 4?

Slow Suicide
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1-3] Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth. 
[4] Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:1-4 (The Message).

New Testament

What is the meaning of 2 Corinthians 8:15 (ESV), “As it is written, 'Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.'” 



Beginning in January 2012:
The Mens Breakfast group, will work toward becoming more like Christ, through study ofthe classic book by Thomas, à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ