Bucket Full of Grace

  Ecclesiastes Sermon #9 The Meaning of Life: The Authentic Life Chapter 7 Introduction  Good morning! This week we are continuing our series in Ecclesiastes called The Meaning of Life with chapter 7: The Authentic Life. Where do we go to find wisdom, meaning, and purpose? What is the point of all our accomplishments? Where is our hope when our life is met with failure or even simple toil and boredom? Is this all there is to life? Solomon has found throughout Ecclesiastes in his grand experiment of life under the sun that all seems to be vanity, a chasing after the wind, as he struggles to find his purpose and meaning, apart from God. Some people doing this experiment would conclude that  “all of life is meaningless and nothing matters” which is called nihilism; but Solomon and us conclude that it’s because of God as the source of all meaning, and goodness, as we live the life we are given, that EVERYTHING matters! AND IMPORTANTLY, many things that the world puts on the b...

  Ecclesiastes Sermon #6 The Meaning of Life: Oppression, Toil, Envy, Laziness, Isolation, and Jesus Ecclesiastes 4 1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed—     and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors—     and they have no comforter. 2 And I declared that the dead,      who had already died, are happier than the living,      who are still alive. 3 But better than both      is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil      that is done under the sun. 4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 5 Fools fold their hands      and ruin themselves. 6 Better one handful with tranquillity      than two handfuls with toil   ...