This week we see that wise living consists of laboring and toiling not in the vanity of seeking fulfillment, but in the goodness of vocation. Even though this world cannot satisfy our deepest longings and work cannot provide the significance we...

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 reinforces the argument that the book is about faith. Here, the Preacher lays out life lived by sight on one hand and by faith on the other. It’s so easy to live by sight, overwhelmed by inherent injustice, sin, and brokenness...

In Ecclesiastes chapter 7, the Preacher confronts us with biblical wisdom that God always uses to confront the conventional wisdom of our age. Biblical wisdom helps us deal with a world that is so often complicated and messy. We will see that the...

Doxologies are anything but formal, dead rituals or something we can go through the motions reading. They are explosions of praise born of deep reflection on glorious truths about God and His grace to us in Jesus. In this first sermon in the new...

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...

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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...