RoboPreacher

not a lot, just forever A sermon on some initial conclusions of Qoheleth : I know what the Quester is talking about in today’s passage. I have dyslexia . Now, dyslexia is relatively common , so you may already know a thing or two about it. But once, when I was talking to friends, I said numbers, letters, and words don’t sit still in my head. They move around. I can’t just mentally keep track of them. Anyway, I’ve been told that’s not a bad description. Blessedly , though, I was diagnosed with dyslexia early . Of course, this was before IEPs. But my teachers were made to understand my situation. And many of them took time to help me learn the material, too. Nevertheless , school was mostly a humbling experience. There was no way standardized tests were going to go well for me. Most of the time, it just takes me longer to get my head around something. Given that, it was almost inevitable I would fall behind .   …But here’s the thing about dyslexia: once you learn someth...

as if to say you're all i need A sermon on Eden : We can’t really talk about what this passage is . Can we? Unfortunately for us , this piece of Scripture is, before it’s anything else, a story of what’s been lost . Eden isn’t the story of what is. It’s the story of what isn’t .   Why so far removed are we from this account that if we try and imagine it, we're called up short almost immediately? I mean, what , after all, is lost in Eden? Was it Paradise ? Was it immortality ? Truthfully, though , if I try to picture any of that, I lose interest after about 30 seconds! Sure, it sounds fun to romp through that picture- perfect Eden. But only for a while! What would I do after that?   And immortality is no better, either! In fact, it’s worse ! Add immortality to our estimations of Eden, and you wind up doomed to Paradise! Stuck in the Garden forever, twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do! No, thank you!   Sure, life east of Eden may be imperfect , but at least ...