What's In A Name?

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 7:58 p.m.

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A good name is better than perfume on your day of death\\u2026 and it\\u2019s better to go to a funeral than a birthday party. These are just some of the uplifting nuggets of wisdom the author of Ecclesiastes offers us. What does this mean? And how can we make it to our own funeral with a good name, when the Preacher of Ecclesiastes admits in the same chapter that no one on earth is righteous because we\\u2019ve all left God to search \\u201cmany schemes\\u201d to make a name for ourselves?

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