Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big idea: The good enjoyment of good life is the good gift of God; apart from it, the gathering of good things only goes terribly.

I. Receiving wealth is the gift of God

II. Enjoying wealth is the gift of God

III. Failure to enjoy wealth is a tragedy

What gifts do these truths offer us? 

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big Idea: God in Christ renovates and rightsizes our relationship to matters that matter so we can receive and rejoice in them rightly.

1. Bring your worship simply (1-7)

2. Practice your politics wisely (8-9)

3. Hold your wealth loosely (10-17)

4. Do your work joyfully (18-20)

Preacher: Kyle Kraeft

I. Relational Villainies (vs. 1-3)

Takeaways:

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big idea: In the midst of our frailty, frustration, and finitude, we can have a stable, stubborn hope in the one who sovereignly sets the seasons and makes everything beautiful in its time.

I. Learn to eat the fruit that is in season 

II. Learn to measure moments in light of eternity 

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big idea: Since pleasure is passing and death is definitive in this life, we must seek lasting pleasures in God’s presence and provision.

1. The Test Methods 

2. The Test Results

3. Interpreting the Data

4. Living with the Data

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big idea: Wisdom under the sun won't give us what we want, so we must seek the wisdom that is the gift of God.

1. Qoheleth's quest #1 - the Way of Wisdom

2. Qoheleth's quest #2 - the Manner of Madness

Two Invitations:

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

1. Who is the Preacher?

1 Kings 11:1-10

2. What is this book? 

3. What can this book do for us?

Romans 8:18-25

Pastor Funmi Ojetayo

The Epiphany of Grace (vv. 11-12)

The Epiphany of Glory (vv. 13-14)

Preacher: Kyle Kraeft

1. A Full Flourishing

2. A Fixed Frame

3. A Fortress Through Faith

Isaiah 35:9 They will enter Zion with singing; 

Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big Idea: We can trust and follow Jesus because he came to rescue us and will come to rescue us so we can be with him forever.

I. Jesus came to dwell among us to save us from sin’s power

II. Jesus will come to save us from sin’s presence so we can dwell with him