[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Believe it or not, this is the final message in our sprawling series on Ecclesiastes. We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past 15 messages, and here’s where it all ends. This message is titled, “The Ends” because there are two endings. First the sage of Ecclesiastes Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ecclesiastes 11:1 has attained universal fame as a proverb. People who know nothing about the Bible have likely heard this expression before (NRSV): Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back. Since it’s so popular, it’s been abused in a Read more
Now that I’ve returned from a great week of holidays, it’s time to update you on what’s happened at WSPC the last two Sundays. On July 5th, Pastor Wendy spoke on God’s power through a vivid retelling of the David & Goliath narrative: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I wish we had video Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] You wouldn’t expect any random Joe off the street to successfully perform open heart surgury on you unless he was trained and experienced as a surgeon. You wouldn’t expect a miscellaneous friend from the gym to perform the third movement of Mendelssohn’s 1st Piano Concerto on demand—unless, of Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ecclesiastes 7:1 is a turning point in the book. In the earlier 6 chapters, the preacher taught by using stories. From here on, the primary mode of teaching is proverbs. Rather than look at all the individual topics brought up in Ecclesiastes 7:1-14, we spent last Sunday looking Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s now time to turn to a topic that preachers have a typically poor track record with: money. Some preachers leap off the deep end with greed, while others cling to their legalistic interpretation of Old Testament law. Too many ignore the topic all together. My plan of Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] There’s a brilliant line in the movie, “Little Boy and Fat Man”: You’ve got to stop playing God, because you’re not good at it and the position is taken! Yet that’s the perennial temptation: to be like God. That’s how Eve was tempted, and it’s what we still Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] We like to talk about love a lot in church, but we often neglect an important form of love: friendship. This past Sunday we took a close look at friendship. Using the friendship between David and Jonathan as our example and the five paragraphs of Ecclesiastes 4 as Read more
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Everyone’s concerned with justice: whether you’re a believer or not. Everyone feels the outrage over the latest AIG bonuses. Everyone loves to see a crime solved, a criminal sentenced, a victim vindicated. The Teacher of Ecclesiastes is no exception. He has a problem, though: who knows if God’s Read more
This week brings us to the most famous passage of Ecclesiates. Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, and verses 2-8 especially is the sort of passage that people know even if they don’t realize it’s from scripture. This poem is most often recited at funerals and concerts. One of the reasons for its fame is this song, made famous Read more
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