Searching for heaven on Earth : how to find what really matters in life /
Jeremiah, David, 1941-,
Searching for heaven on Earth : how to find what really matters in life / [print] 31 Days to Happiness David Jeremiah. - Nashville, Tennessee : Integrity Publishers, (c)2004. - xxii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Will the circle be unbroken -- Bored to death -- Trivial pursuits -- Careening careers -- Impressions about life -- Insights about God -- Read the instructions -- When justice isn't just -- From oppression to obsession -- When 1 + 1 > 2 -- A God who can't be used -- Governments never change -- Dollars and sense -- Money without meaning -- Employment without enjoyment -- Solomon answers yours questions -- The joy of misery -- The pleasure of rebuke -- The hard way made easy -- Time to move on-- The perspective of wisdom -- The power of wisdom -- Hard to be humble -- Dropping the "D" word -- Life chears! -- Foolishness in little things -- Foolishness in leadership -- Labor, language, and lunacy -- Life is uncertain: embrace it! -- Life is short: enjoy it! -- Life is mysterious: Examine it!
He spent forty years on the roof of history, having ascended all the Everests of life-wealth, fame, love, respect, wisdom. And yet at every apex-and in the breath-taking descents that followed each-Solomon realized: Not only is it desolate at the top, but at the bottom and everywhere in-between. What have you found on your Everests? Perhaps you received the promotion, married the perfect mate, won the lottery, took the dream vacation, got the book published. But what did it get you? Something less than the joy you really desired, right? And deep within the quiet of your soul, something suggested that, once again, you had looked in the wrong place.
9781591450665
2004015126
Bible.--Ecclesiastes--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christian life.
BS1475.J55.S437 2004 BS1475
Searching for heaven on Earth : how to find what really matters in life / [print] 31 Days to Happiness David Jeremiah. - Nashville, Tennessee : Integrity Publishers, (c)2004. - xxii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Will the circle be unbroken -- Bored to death -- Trivial pursuits -- Careening careers -- Impressions about life -- Insights about God -- Read the instructions -- When justice isn't just -- From oppression to obsession -- When 1 + 1 > 2 -- A God who can't be used -- Governments never change -- Dollars and sense -- Money without meaning -- Employment without enjoyment -- Solomon answers yours questions -- The joy of misery -- The pleasure of rebuke -- The hard way made easy -- Time to move on-- The perspective of wisdom -- The power of wisdom -- Hard to be humble -- Dropping the "D" word -- Life chears! -- Foolishness in little things -- Foolishness in leadership -- Labor, language, and lunacy -- Life is uncertain: embrace it! -- Life is short: enjoy it! -- Life is mysterious: Examine it!
He spent forty years on the roof of history, having ascended all the Everests of life-wealth, fame, love, respect, wisdom. And yet at every apex-and in the breath-taking descents that followed each-Solomon realized: Not only is it desolate at the top, but at the bottom and everywhere in-between. What have you found on your Everests? Perhaps you received the promotion, married the perfect mate, won the lottery, took the dream vacation, got the book published. But what did it get you? Something less than the joy you really desired, right? And deep within the quiet of your soul, something suggested that, once again, you had looked in the wrong place.
9781591450665
2004015126
Bible.--Ecclesiastes--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christian life.
BS1475.J55.S437 2004 BS1475