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We'd love for you to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to get updates on our latest content and resources that will help more people know Jesus and people know Jesus more.GIVE : We believe that generosity is golden. Freely we have received and so freely we give back to God. If you would like to give to support the work Jesus is doing here please visit: https://www.elevatecc.church/give.Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.Jesus Over Everything.Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatecity.church/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elevatecc.churchPodcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3H8BBrEFWxGKsTF8wPSvrn?si=epcQMMrmQIiTpeXEnyxMOQPodcast on itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-city-church/id1536637567Visit our website for more information about who we are as a church and how you can get involved.https://www.elevatecc.church/home

Ecclesiastes 11 reminds us that the good life isn’t found in storing more, earning more, or controlling the future. It’s discovered through trusting God in a world where you don’t know what tomorrow holds. In this message, Pastor Joey McLaughlin unpacks Solomon’s counterintuitive wisdom on money, generosity, risk, and faith—challenging the belief that greed leads to fulfillment and calling us to live open-handed instead of closed-fisted. Because in an unpredictable world, the good life isn’t built by holding on tighter—it’s found by boldly sending it out.

Ecclesiastes 10 reminds us that the good life isn’t built through big breakthroughs. It’s shaped by everyday wisdom. In this message, Pastor Joey McLaughlin unpacks Solomon’s practical proverbs about foolishness, self-awareness, leadership, work, and the small choices that quietly shape the direction of our lives. Because while life is already hard, it becomes even harder when we live without wisdom.

This message from Pastor Joey is part of the series “A Good, Messy, Beautiful Life,” a journey through the book of Ecclesiastes exploring where the good life is really found. In Ecclesiastes 9, we’re confronted with a sobering truth: no matter who we are—rich or poor, powerful or ordinary—everyone dies. Yet instead of leading us to despair, Scripture shows how remembering our mortality can actually free us to live more fully. In a world full of uncertainty, Ecclesiastes calls us to embrace the gifts God has given—joy, relationships, meaningful work, and everyday moments of beauty—and to live gratefully, intentionally, and with purpose while we still have breath.

In this message from our series “A Good, Messy, Beautiful Life,” Pastor Joey McLaughlin unpacks Ecclesiastes 8 and confronts one of the hardest truths about life: you are not in control. Through Solomon’s reflections, we’re reminded that politics, the economy, justice, our reputation, and even the day of our death ultimately rest in God’s hands. So what do we do when life feels unfair and the outcomes don’t make sense? Instead of offering easy answers to suffering, Ecclesiastes calls us to surrender control, trust God’s sovereignty, and receive each day as a gift. In a world that feels chaotic and unpredictable, the good life isn’t found in having all the answers — it’s found in trusting the King who does.

In this message from our Ecclesiastes series at Elevate City Church, Pastor Joey McLaughlin walks through Ecclesiastes 7 and unpacks one of the most shocking statements in Scripture: “The Day of Death is Better Than the Day of Birth.” While that idea may sound absurd at first, Solomon invites us to consider how the reality of death shapes the way we live, revealing that legacy is more meaningful than potential and character matters more than appearances. This sermon explores how seasons of mourning and adversity often become our greatest teachers, helping us focus on what truly matters instead of chasing fleeting success or status. Through the contrast between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues, we’re challenged to live with the end in mind and pursue wisdom, integrity, and faithfulness today. Ultimately, Ecclesiastes reminds us that the good life isn’t found in avoiding hardship but in surrendering to God through every season.

Pastor Joe Baker continues the "A Good, Messy, Beautiful Life" series with a powerful message from Ecclesiastes 6 titled “How Can I Be Satisfied?” In this sermon, Joe explores King Solomon’s search for meaning and exposes the emptiness of chasing wealth, success, possessions, and “more” without God. Through biblical insight, relatable stories, and practical challenges, he calls listeners to examine their appetites, practice gratitude, and discover true contentment as a gift from God. Ultimately, this message points to Jesus as the only source of lasting satisfaction and eternal life in a restless, consumer-driven world. If you’re wrestling with purpose, comparison, or materialism, this teaching invites you to reorient your life around what truly matters. Watch, reflect, and join the conversation as we learn what it means to live fully satisfied in Christ.

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Some seasons feel beautiful. Others feel brutal.

The hardest part is realizing you can’t fast-forward your life.

In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon reminds us there is a time for everything—and God is not absent in the waiting, the loss, the change, or the unknown. In this message from A Wild, Messy, Beautiful Life, we talk about learning how to live where you are, trust God with your timing, and believe that He really can “make everything beautiful in its time.”

If you’re in a season you didn’t choose… this sermon is for you.

1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

2 a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.

9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-13

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Ecclesiastes 2 gives language to what many of us feel but rarely say out loud: You can have everything you wanted and still feel unsatisfied.

In this message from A Wild, Messy, Beautiful Life, we look at Solomon’s honest search for meaning—and discover why joy was never meant to be found in achievement alone.

In Ecclesiastes 2, Solomon runs the experiment we’re all living—pleasure, achievement, and nonstop effort—and calls it what it is: a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2

1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” 3 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.

9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun...

24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, Ix saw, is from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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