Season 9: Ecclesiastes •
Season 9: Ecclesiastes •
What does it look like to live life, shaped by eternity? It’s a stark question we don’t often like to contemplate and yet that’s the premise of the preacher in Ecclesiastes. Come and join us as we sit with him, and listen to his wisdom - as he does away with pretence, and helps us to see the lives we’re living with refreshing perspective.
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“Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.”
— Macbeth
Resources for You
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Is All Really Vanity?
A helpful piece from David Gibson, introducing some of the themes of Ecclesiastes.
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On Death
Part of a series on Birth, Death and Marriage by Tim Keller, this is a helpful small book looking at death in the face, and the hope we have as Christians.
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Learning the Limits of Life
A helpful conversation from Graham Beynon & Eric Ortlund, discussing how to get into Ecclesiastes together on the Deep Roots Podcast.
“I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil - this is the gift of God.”
— The Preacher
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