Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really Matters in Life (Study Guide)
Overview
Don't you deserve a little happiness? They are the questions that plague us:
- Is happiness within my reach?
- Why is life so frustrating?
- Is it too late for me?
Or to put it another way, "Where can I find a little heaven on earth?" History's most successful man, Solomon, wondered just that. As David Jeremiah shows you, he was a man who tested life's haunting questions head-on and who found his answers in the last place he thought to look.
Listen, then, to his voice. A voice that, if you pay attention, will speak directly to your flesh and bones and heart. A voice that admits: Maybe happiness is an empty hope. Or maybe we've simply been looking in all the wrong places.
This study guide serves as an invaluable aid to Searching for Heaven on Earth.
Top Highlights
“Solomon wrote three books: Song of Solomon as a young man; Proverbs as a middle-age man, and Ecclesiastes in his latter years—his book of regrets. He looked back over his life and realized how many foolish choices he made in his search to find the meaning of life. Fortunately, he came to a godly conclusion at the end of the book, but it was too late for him to enjoy it personally.” (Page 10)
“Here is the key to understanding the book: Solomon is describing life as if there is no God at all in the picture. And his conclusion is that life is meaningless without Him. His phrase ‘under the sun’ (used 29 times in the book) is how he expresses his description of life in terms of the world without God.” (Page 11)
“One of the keys to this book is found in 3:11: ‘He has put eternity in their hearts.’ The heart of man is oriented toward eternity, and there is nothing in this temporal world that can satisfy it.” (Page 14)
“The word ‘Ecclesiastes’ means ‘the gathering.’ Solomon calls himself, in Hebrew, qohelet, or ‘the preacher’ or ‘the quester.’ He was a man on a mission—a mission to discover the meaning of life.” (Page 11)
“Life can be a great source of joy when we learn to view it against the backdrop of God who created life and gives it as a gift to His creation.” (Page 22)
- Title: Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really Matters in Life (Study Guide)
- Author: David Jeremiah
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes › Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Study guide
- ISBNs: 9780718005665, 071800566X
- Resource ID: LLS:SRCHHVNEARTHSG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:08:04Z
David Jeremiah (1941– ) is an author, evangelist, and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church. Jeremiah holds degrees from Cedarville University and Dallas Theological Seminary. Before becoming the pastor at Shadow Mountian in 1981, Jeremiah began a church in Indiana and developed a Christian grade school.
In 1982, Jeremiah founded Turning Point Ministries: a 30-minute radio program that can be heard on over 1,800 stations worldwide. Jeremiah received numerous awards for his broadcasting and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Religious Broadcasters since 1996. Turning Point later launched a television program which offers a worship service and Bible study lesson.
Jeremiah is the author of numerous books on Christian theology topics including What the Bible Says about Angels, Sanctuary, Prayer: The Great Adventure, and many more. All of these titles, and numerous other study guides, commentaries and devotions by Jeremiah, can be found in the Jeremiah Lifeworks Library 2.0.