This Week at Hope – The Vanity of Earthly-Mindedness
Dear brothers and sisters,
We will be in Ecclesiastes 5:8-17 this Sunday. In this passage, Solomon is showing us the vanity of a mind and heart set on this earth – whether upon gain or upon honor. If we come away from the house of God has truly heard Him and fearing Him as we should, we will be equipped to flee from the worldliness and earthly-mindedness that occupies the sons of Adam.
The following can be found in the Foreword to Jeremiah Burrough’s book A Treatise on Earthly-Mindedness:
We see upon what weak shoulders the fair neck of all worldly pomp and glory now stands, and how the Lord is winding up and putting an end to the glories of the kingdoms of men, who have not contributed their strength and power to the advancing, but rather to the pulling down and eclipsing of the glory of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Besides what the world tells us, never has an age had more examples laid before them of the world’s vanity than in our days. Therefore, our hearts should sit loose to all things that cannot stretch themselves to eternity.
Prayer tonight will be at the Brown Barn.
The Elders have asked Robert Bosley to speak Sunday afternoon on the authority of Scripture. Robert will seek to equip us to defend the Scriptures in the midst of numerous criticisms and to take greater comfort in the inerrancy and authority of the Scriptures that have been passed down to us over many centuries.
Please pray for all of those going to the Forge Conference this weekend in Texas.
The songs for Sunday are as follows:
Be Thou My Vision
Grace Greater than Our Sin
When I Survey the Wonderous Cross
Fairest Lord Jesus
Behold Our God