Only one thing to say

Only one thing to say (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ecclesiastes 11:9 – 12:14
November 26, 2017

There is only one thing to say …

After all this, there is only one thing to say …

Useless, useless …  It is all useless …

“Hebel,” הבל.  The Hebrew word is הבל.  We translate it “useless” or “vanity” (“vanity of vanities, all is vanity”) or “emptiness.” … Continue reading ...

Dust

Dust (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ecclesiastes 3:16 – 4:6
October 1, 2017

This is as bleak as Ecclesiastes gets.  This is one of the darkest chapters in a rather dark book.

Hard work is useless.

Our lives have no more meaning than the lives of animals.

It would be better to have never been born.

Bleak. … Continue reading ...