1. Stop trying to outrun death’s shadow… It will leave you dissatisfied and restless to deny your mortality.

2. Learn from Death’s Shadow.

3. The outcome when we learn these lessons.

Power and Money, Handle with Care! Ecclesiastes 4:1-3, 5:8-20.

We must handle power and money with extreme caution and care.

1. We must handle POWER with extreme caution and care

2. We must handle MONEY with extreme caution and care

3. So how do we handle with Care?

We must learn to tell the time! Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

We must learn to tell the time… so that we can: Fear God Endure Injustice, Enjoy the Moment, Humbly Hope.

Hating Work, Enjoying Work. Ecclesiastes 2

1. If you make work all about you, you will hate it and despair of life itself because

2. If it is about God, you can ENJOY it!

We will find our eternal home in the Lord when we come to terms with: God’s strength and our weakness, God’s justice and our sinfulness, and God’s mercy and our response. Psalm 90:1-17

Do not chase work or wisdom, they are vapor! Ecclesiastes 1:1-18

We are going to receive sound Biblical realism delivered from orthopedic shoes. The writer is like Farmer’s Insurance – he knows a thing or two because he has seen a thing or two. This is not about growing cynical or negative but having a robust biblical realism that keeps us from expecting too much from life under the sun. If we can see it clearly for what it is we will walk the path with greater wisdom and health.

Through Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus we learn that we are all subject to Spiritual blindness, and only Jesus can make our sight 20/20, found in Luke 19:1-10. This is part of the Dine Like Jesus series.

In the Great Commission Jesus invites us into Baptism, and this signifies five crucial things for us. Matthew 28:16-20.

Jesus always extravagantly provides. Mark 6:30-44. This is part of the Dine Like Jesus series.

A Kingdom Table is a Generous, No-Strings-Attached Table! Luke 14:12-24. This is part of the Dine Like Jesus series.