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Author Archives: Jefferson Vann
science is hard work
A WORD OF APPRECIATION FOR ALL SCIENTISTS Ecclesiastes 1:12-15 12 I the Collector, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom all that is done under the … Continue reading
happened already
WHAT IS REALLY WORTH STRIVING FOR? Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 9 Whatever has happened is what will happen, and whatever has been done is what will be done, and there is not anything new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing … Continue reading
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cycles
HINTS OF FOREVER Ecclesiastes 1:5-8 5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the … Continue reading
absolutely impermanent
WHAT DRIVES YOU? Ecclesiastes 1:1-4 1 Words from a collector, a son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 “Absolutely impermanent,” the collector says, “absolutely impermanent, everything is impermanent.” 3 What does a man get for doing all his hard work … Continue reading
the real last words
LOOK AT THE TOMB, GO TO GALILEE Mark 16:1-8 1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and James’ Mary and Salome bought aromatic spices,[a] so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first … Continue reading
take the corpse
DO YOU DARE TELL ALL ABOUT JESUS? Mark 15:42-47 42 And the change to evening had already happened. Since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of … Continue reading
the women who stayed
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW? Mark 15:40-41 40 There were also women watching it from a distance, among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James (the younger one) and of Joses, and Salome. 41 When he had … Continue reading
really the Son of God
WHO DO YOU SEE ON THAT CROSS? Mark 15:37-39 37 Then Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 And after the … Continue reading
last miracle
HOW WILL YOU DIE? Mark 15:34-36 34 Then at the ninth hour Jesus cried in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”[1] which means, “My God, my God, why have you given up on me?”[2] 35 And some of the … Continue reading
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three hours of darkness
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHT? Mark 15:31-33 31 And in the same way even the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He delivered others; he cannot deliver himself. 32 Let the Christ, the King of … Continue reading
