It is natural that we love ourselves most. But God's command for us is unchanged from the Law to Ecclesiastes to Jesus Christ: to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Understanding our human limitations of morality and mortality can actualy give us the freedom to enjoy our limited lives on earth if we entrust ourselves fully to God.

Baptism is a picture and a proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ: a physical representation of the inward spiritual reality of our death and resurrection with Christ.

The most popular and beautiful poem in Ecclesiastes shows us the reality of time: it may rule over us and humble us, but our eternal God rules over time.

All our endless toil seems to lead only to despair, and death is the universal equalizer that ultimately awaits us all. Can true enjoyment and satisfaction be found in this life?

Life can sometimes turn into little more than the search for our next dopamine hit. When knowledge fails, the preacher turns to the pursuit of pleasure to escape the futility of life, but finds that sheer enjoyment apart from God is vanity.

The Preacher pursues the exploration of everything done under the sun in an attempt to find meaning. But true wisdom and knowledge cannot be found under the sun, but beyond the sun.

We long for our lives to have meaning and purpose, often searching in places it may not be found. The Preacher challenges us to rethink our lives in light of an objective reality outside of ourselves, looking not to creation, but to the Creator.

Ecclesiastes is a book that invites us to take an honest look at the harsh reality of life on this broken earth. The questions it raises are ultimately only answered in God himself.

As we wait for Christ's return, he has given us a task and a charge to go about his business, not our own. Our faithfulness now will be rewarded in the life to come.