The Influence of Authority

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Ecclesiastes, we worked through a series of what were essentially proverbs reflecting on many of the vanities we have encountered in the book. The last set of these proverbs drew particular focus to how...

Loud Fools, Quiet Wisdom

Church Family, While there was a lot to chew on in the sermon from this past Sunday, one verse in particular stood out to me as something to consider further here in the weekly blog. Ecclesiastes 9:17 reads “the words of the wise heard in quiet are better than...

The Event That Happens To All

Church family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Ecclesiastes, we took a good hard look at one thing that is certain for everybody: death. It doesn’t matter whether one is righteous or wicked; everyone will some day die. While this sounds like a...

From Madness to Joy

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Ecclesiastes, we worked through the particularly maddening chapter 8 which, at first glance, seems to swing back and forth in its observations, contradicting itself sentence after sentence. But those...

The Schemes of Man

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Ecclesiastes, we came across perhaps the most perplexing passage of the whole book. At first glance it seems that the major themes of this passage are running every which direction. It talks about the...

Work That Just Doesn’t Work

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Ecclesiastes, we looked at two different ways that hard work can prove to be nothing but vanity. Work that is done with an envious heart is never fulfilling; rather it wears away at us as though we are...