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Our first Scripture lesson this morning comes for Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 : For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and…

2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break…

Time Time is a funny thing isn’t it. We all have the same amount of hours in a day. We all are afforded the same segments of time on a day to day basis. But the effects of time are different for each one of us. I remember when I was in middle school and high school how quickly the summer went by while…

Intro 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;…

If you would open your Bibles to Mark chapter 2. We all instinctively know that there is a time and a place for certain activities, right? No one goes to the baseball game and files their taxes at the ballpark. No one shows up to work wearing a costume, except maybe on Halloween, depending on what the…

All Is Hevel 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time…

Our journey through the book of Ecclesiastes, one of the books of wisdom of the Bible. The key phrase that we’ve heard thus far and that Qoholet opens with is, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” And we’ve learned that the term vanity can be translated as vapor. In other words so much of what we chase…

1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that…

Most of us don’t like silence. We especially don’t like it when it feels like God is being silent. 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the…

Times and Seasons 1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; 3 A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, And a time to…

1 I will give you thanks with all my heart; I will sing your praise before the heavenly beings. 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your constant love and truth. You have exalted your name and your promise above everything else. 3 On the day I called, you answered…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,…

Greediness: Having a keen appetite For.... 10 The one who loves silver is never satisfied with silver, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile. 11 When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze…

Working 9 to 5 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time…

OBJECTIVES IN STUDYING THIS CHAPTER 1) To reflect upon the Preacher’s observations gleaned from his search for the purpose of life under the sun 2) To understand why God’s ways are sometimes inexplicable, and why injustice along with wickedness are allowed to exist 3) To be reminded as to what is best…

A time for everything 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and…

We are beginning a new series titled, I’ll do it tomorrow. For the next four weeks we will discuss change, why we need to change and some of the difficulties with change. Change is not something we like to go through. However some things need to change… bell bottoms Platform shoes Leisure suits Everything…

The Situation Turn, Turn, Turn by Pete Seeger recorded by Byrds in 1965 when Vietnam War was heating up. Qoheleth was writing during the exile, people dislocated. Ecclesiastes is rambling and depressed Human self-sufficiency (naming a new year, trying harder, changing politicians, propping up old institutions)…

There is a time. 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time…

The Life of a Christian 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep,…

Graduation Sunday It is so exciting to be celebrating with our graduates this year! We are proud of you, and look forward to how the Lord will use you in the coming years. You have been challenged and encouraged all your lives through school to pursue education. You have been encouraged to pursue success!…

Because God knows and controls the seasons, we must learn to live within them We need to explore this control and then what it means to live in these seasons. Picture of living within the controls of Nana’s house Give illustration of my own use of the seasons You live in a created order that has seasons.…

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they…

Worship is not a detachment from the world around us, but an orientation into the world around us.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time…