Life Is Gift, Not Gain
Prelude
Graves Into Gardens
Greeting
Opening Song
Our God Saves
Invocation
Worship In Song
Run To The Father (2nd Service)
Pastoral Prayer
Offering
Children’s Message - Leslie Baker
Scripture Reading
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them. —Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Message: Doug McHenry
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Ecclesiastes asks: How do we make sense of life when it’s so beautiful and seemingly futile at the same time?
Wisdom is a gift God gives to anyone who is
Wisdom is the skill and insight to
The reality: Life is
‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher, ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ —Ecclesiastes 1:2
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. —Psalm 144:4
All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers; flowers fade. — Isaiah 40:6-8
Generations come and go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever turning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. —Ecclesiastes 1:4-7
The reality:
Life is
The reality:
There is nothing
All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 1:8-9
The Teacher is exposing the problems and reality of life, and he’s creating a
The real crux of the problem is that we expect temporal things to deliver lasting happiness. —Barnabas Piper
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. —Matthew 6:19-21
The answer to the reality of life:
Don’t hang your happiness on anything other than
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