Joseph Generation Army

The Jews really needed to see some fancy miracle in order to believe in God: probably healing, prophecy etc...more like a lot of people today.  The Greeks needed to be impressed by some smart orator/motivational speaker.  Both are good but those should never be the point of any sermon.  The point of all sermons should be Christ crucified.  Period.....

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 is such a simple and yet profoundly true-to-life chapter that it has made its way outside the church deep in to the secular world.  Countless songs, sermons,  speeches etc...have been based on this chapter.  In simple, clear and yet profound terms it lays out the contrast the human life is filled with. It says there is time to be born and time to die, time to plant and time to uproot,  time to mourn and time to dance,  time for peace and time time for war....

Someone said Jesus has to either be the true Son of God that He claimed He is  or a psychotic who has no idea what he is talking about.   Even though we know the He is the former,  that conclusion kind of makes sense from a non-believer perspective......