What the Soul Knows

Hidden within the soul of humanity are realities far beyond what we can see, beyond scientific discovery, and beyond the limits of our minds. We live in a temporal world, yet we can conceive of eternity. We live in a realm where everything breaks down and dies, yet we can imagine a world beyond death and decay. We can conceive that the world was created by God, and that the God who created all things loves us and desires to help us navigate this temporary life. The soul can conceive of heaven, the realm where God dwells, and it longs…

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Wonder, Scale, and the Call Beyond Ourselves

We live in an unbelievable, incomprehensible world. We live on a small ball called Earth, revolving around a massive nuclear reaction that gives us light, heat, and energy. It sits at just the right distance so we do not burn up or freeze. We are traveling around the sun in a precise orbit at 64,000 miles per hour, covering one and a half million miles per day and 580 million miles per year. Our solar system exists within a galaxy that rotates around its center at roughly 100,000 miles per hour. The universe itself spans nearly 93 billion light years…

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The Cry of the Soul

Our soul wants to go higher because it knows how temporal this present world is. It is crying out for a better land—something better than what we have. Crying for something permanent. Something greater than ourselves and the things we own.

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Ecclesiastes and the Weight of Eternity

The book of Ecclesiastes tells us of the futility of a natural life. It pulls back the curtain on deception and keeps us from unreality, showing us how things actually are. The natural world gives us no hope for the future. It shows us that much of what we’re involved in is worthless and futile—apart from a relationship with God. All in the natural world will be lost. Death wipes everything temporal out, bringing it all to nothing. The book begins with, “Worthlessness, worthlessness, all is worthlessness,” and then it describes why. Ecclesiastes is so important in shaping our lives.…

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