Money is a powerful counterfeit god. We have all felt its powerful promises and felt crushed and fooled by its failure to deliver. As the Preacher takes us through the “vanity of riches,” wisdom, as we’ll see, isn’t found in prosperity or...

Message from Rev. Robert Recio on

Ecclesiastes 4:4-16 addresses contentment in a world defined and driven by envy and selfish ambition. Last week revealed the external forces that discourage our faith; this week reveals the internal forces that rob us of joy. The Preachers unmasks...

In Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3, the Preacher turns to look at the hardest part of life in this world as he confronts the injustice and suffering. Facing the harder questions of life Ecclesiastes seeks to give us a truer and deeper faith that can withstand...

This week we look at the most well-known passage of Ecclesiastes as the Preacher dives deeper at what it means to live our lives which consist of highs and lows, joys and sorrows, and plenty of ambiguities in between. Even as we face and respond to...

This week, the Preacher of Ecclesiastes takes us on a whirlwind quest for pleasure, identity, and meaning through the pursuit of what is ultimately unsatisfying: knowledge, comedy, pleasure, alcohol, work, possessions, and sex. While we still relate...

Ecclesiastes exposes the world with an honest realism; asking questions that have haunted every generation, while beautifully constructing a vision of the wise and flourishing life. The opening prologue identifies the world as “vanity of...

The Christmas story continues in Luke, where, following Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph journey to the temple in Jerusalem and are met by Simeon and Anna. The aged Simeon has spent his life waiting for the Messiah. Joseph and Mary marvel at the good...

Christmas is the story of the arrival of the king our hearts ultimately long for and need. Psalm 72 presents the glorious reality that the throne of the universe is not occupied by cruel or impersonal forces, nor by an aloof or distant god. King...

In the final sermon of this series, we end at Revelation 5 where we stand in amazement at the coronation ceremony of King Jesus, as seen through the eyes of John the Apostle. But John’s eyes wept before they were filled with wonder. In his tears,...