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CHASING THE WIND

Episode 7: Then You Die

The Problem Q Cannot Solve

Central idea:

Death isn't merely one of Q's complaints.
Death is the wrecking ball that knocks down every answer he's tried.

Take out your calendar.

What's on it?

Dentist.

Lunch Thursday.

Pick up dry cleaning.

Granddaughter's birthday.

Meeting at 10.

Vacation in September.

Oil change.

Dinner with the Johnsons.

There's another appointment on your calendar.

You don't know the date.

You can't cancel it.

You can't reschedule.

And strangely... you've made absolutely no plans for what happens afterward.

Q has.

Actually, that's not quite right.

Q has obsessed over it.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 6: I Tried Success

What Happens After You Get There?

Central idea: Success isn't the problem.

Asking success to prove that your life mattered is.

• When I finally graduate.
• When I finally get married.
• When we finally have children.
• When the kids finally sleep through the night.
• When the kids finally go to school.
• When the kids finally leave the house.

Apparently, children are involved in a surprising amount of our happiness planning.

• When I finally get promoted.
• When we finally buy the house.
• When I finally make six figures.
• When I finally publish the book.
• When the church finally grows.
• When I finally retire.

And somewhere beneath all those sentences is a quiet promise:

When I finally get there... I'll finally feel like I've arrived.

Q got there.

And that's what makes him dangerous.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 5: I Tried Pleasure

What Happens When You Finally Get Everything You Want?

Q doesn't condemn pleasure. He does something far more interesting. He gives pleasure everything it asks for—and watches what happens.

Let's conduct a highly scientific experiment.

Tomorrow morning you wake up and discover that you have...

$500 million.

After taxes.

We're not monsters.

Then start dreaming.

Mortgage?

Gone.

Student loans?

Gone.

That kitchen you've been talking about for eleven years?

Demolish it.

Build another kitchen where the kitchen used to be.

Hate your job?

Here's a fun sentence:

“I quit.”

Travel.

Food.

House.

Cars.

Cabin.

Beach.

Whatever you want.

Then:

Here's my question.

Would you finally be happy?

Don't give me the Sunday-school answer.

Think about it.

Because most of us have quietly entertained some version of:

If I just had enough _____, everything would be okay.

Fortunately, someone has already conducted this experiment for us.

His name is Qohelet.

And unlike you... he actually had the $500 million.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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We all know this person.

Whatever subject comes up...

they've done the research.

Nutrition?

They've done the research.

Parenting?

Research.

Politics?

Oh, Lord. They've definitely done the research.

Marriage?

Research.

Money?

Why your knee hurts?

Give them three minutes.

Then:

And somewhere around 2,500 years ago, one of these people apparently got hold of a pen.

Enter Qohelet.

“I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.”

Of course you did.

And then he tells us:

“I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me.”

This is an extraordinary self-presentation: Q claims exceptional wisdom and sweeping observation—“I have seen everything that happens under the sun.”

He is the pinnacle of humility…

Ladies and gentlemen...

meet Q.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 3: Meet Lady Wisdom

The Woman Who Gets the Joke

Episodes 1 and 2 have been cerebral: Are we reading Ecclesiastes correctly? Where does wisdom come from?

Episode 3 is beautiful.

Qohelet is well-meaningly sweating, investigating, experimenting, trying to make the universe yield its secrets. Lady Wisdom is already there, delighting in God's purposes--dancing. She understand what Q cannot because she sees the larger meaning while Q—we-- peers through a keyhole.

The episode's central idea:

Biblical wisdom isn't primarily knowing more things.
It's learning to see reality from God's side of the keyhole. That takes an algorithm shift in our brain that we cannot do on our own—ie, wisdom.

Bottom line:

Q studies the creation.
Lady Wisdom knows the Creator.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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What if you believe God loves you…
but you don't really feel loved by Him?

What if you've spent years trying harder—praying more, reading more, serving more, trying to sin less—yet somewhere inside you still wonder:

“Am I really enough for God?”

That's the question behind my new book, Good Enough Christian: Experiencing the Love of Jesus When You Don't Feel Enough.

For the entire month of October, I'm giving away 100 Kindle copies through Goodreads.

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And if you've ever felt spiritually stuck, discouraged, ashamed, exhausted, or simply wondered why Christianity hasn't felt like the good news you expected it to be…

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And please share this with someone who might need it.

Maybe they're not looking for another book about trying harder.

Maybe they're ready to discover what it means to experience God's delight.

Dr. Bill Senyard

Gospel App Ministries

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CHASING THE WIND

Episode 2: Three Ways to Survive the World

Where Does Wisdom Come From?

The big idea:

The first podcast creates the suspicion: “Wait—maybe I’ve been reading Ecclesiastes wrong.”

Session 2 is designed to give you listeners the decoder ring they’ll need for the rest of the series.

Everybody needs wisdom because everybody is trying to answer the same question: What should I do next?

And there are essentially three answers:

Look within.
Look around.
Look up.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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CHASING THE WIND

Episode 1: What If Ecclesiastes Is a Joke?

The Joke We Missed in Ecclesiastes

The Most Depressing Man in the Bible

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

Welcome to Ecclesiastes. Have a nice day.

Seriously, what are we supposed to do with this guy?

He looks at work: meaningless.

Pleasure? Meaningless.

Wealth? Meaningless.

Wisdom? Eventually you're dead.

Righteous people suffer. Wicked people prosper. You can't figure out what God is doing. And whatever you accomplish, somebody else eventually gets it.

This is the wisdom book?

What if we've been missing something?

What if Ecclesiastes isn't simply telling us that life is absurd?

What if it's showing us the absurdity of trying to understand life without the one thing necessary to understand it?

What if Ecclesiastes... is satire?

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly!

Episode 13 — The Darkness Before the King (Finale)

We’ve reached the end of the book of Judges.

And it ends in one of the darkest stories in the entire Bible.

A story of violence.

Cowardice.

Sexual brutality.

And moral collapse.

The narrator frames the entire section with the same haunting line:

“In those days Israel had no king.”

And what follows shows exactly what that means.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 12 — “No King in the Land”

If Disney had written the story of Israel…
it ends with unity, gratitude, worship songs echoing across the hills.

But that’s not how it goes.

Instead, the defining line of the book of Judges is this:

“Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.”

And here’s the uncomfortable truth—
that doesn’t sound ancient.

That sounds like us.

Today, we’re going to watch something unravel—
not just a person…
not just a family…
but an entire religious system.

This is Breaking Badly.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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