How do we evaluate Ecclesiastes? And how in the world does Ecclesiastes make a perfect transition to thinking about Advent? Listen as Pastor David preaches from Ecclesiastes 12:8-14.

For the Teacher in Ecclesiastes, death was all he saw. He saw the absurdity of everything moving towards an eventual end, and it was maddening to him. There are some in our day that think that technology and biochemistry can beat death. What does wisdom say about this? Listen to Pastor David preach from Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:7 as we consider how to find meaning in life.

We think that greed is someone else's problem, not ours. But upon closer analysis, we are all motivated or paralyzed at some level by fear to control our world through doubting God and grasping for what we can save and hold. How do we become freed to be a generous people? Listen as Pastor David preaches from Ecclesiastes 11:1-6.

The rain falls on the just and the unjust, but the unjust don't feel it because they have the just folks umbrellas. The preacher now contends with justice, how a good God allows the wicked to prosper and the righteous to falter. How do we deal with this? We recognize that life isn't fair, and that if it was, we wouldn't like the outcome of it all. Listen as Pastor David preachers from Ecclesiastes 8:10-17.

In the Bible, there are only two ways to live: as wise or as foolish. When we try to control our world, we live as the fool and the results are disaster. Listen to Pastor David as he preaches from Ecclesiastes 7:8-14.

The church is supposed to be the refuge in our storms of life, graciously given by God, and yet... folly seems to abound, even within her walls. What does Ecclesiastes say about this, and what should we do about this? Listen as Pastor David unpacks Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 and offers, on this reformation Sunday, to have a complex conversation about the church.

The grace of God gives us the book of Ecclesiastes in the 21st Century to show us that, when you take all of the wisdom of life under the sun, and you contemplate the meaning of life, you get this bleak picture. In this passage, Steve Williamson (MA, Dallas Theological Seminary) looks at the oppression of work and offers hope in the gospel to where our relief is found.

Time is something that we all have, but it is something that we all feel differently about. In the most familiar passage in Ecclesiastes, Pastor David preaches from 3:1-15 and thinks about how we can be fully present in all of the times that God has ordered for us.

When you ask the question why are we so unhappy with work, typically we get the answer that it is because we work too much. But is that it? Pastor David explores the wisdom of Ecclesiastes from chapter 2 verses 18-26 to try to understand why work can't satisfy us.

Wisdom has its limits. What do we do, then? Listen to Pastor David preach from Ecclesiastes 2:12-17.