Ecclesiastes
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I’d like to say that this Bible study’s topic is a happy one, but that’s…not the case. This Ecclesiastes study focuses on death—something that many don’t really want to think about. But death is coming for all of us, so I think it’s worth thinking about, and so does the Teacher in Ecclesiastes. Before looking…
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The title of this message is, “The Mystery of Time.” Pretty mysterious title, right? But if you really think about it, time is a rather strange, mysterious thing. Time can feel relative at times, but it’s also an objective, finite thing—according to human measuring systems. One hour is 60 minutes, which is 3,600 seconds. No…
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My fellow missionaries and I have been doing an Ecclesiastes Sunday Chapel Time series for the past several months. In this study’s passage, the Teacher continues to investigate what is good for people to do during their life, focusing on pleasure and accomplishments. Prior to this study, we studied the end of Ecclesiastes 1. We…
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Ecclesiastes is actually a book I really enjoy because it’s so unlike the other books in the Bible. It’s part of what contemporary Bible scholars consider to be the “wisdom literature” of the Bible, along with Proverbs and Job. So naturally, it’s full of wisdom. But the three books talk about wisdom in very different…