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  • Jonathan McLeod avatar

    Vanity Of Vanities Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Jul 20, 2010
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    Life is full of meaning when your faith is in Christ.

    [To receive a free sermon each week by email, please contact jonrmcleod@yahoo.com] WHO IS THE AUTHOR? The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem (v. 1). Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes? • “Preacher” (qoheleth) means “one who gathers” or ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    All Is Vanity Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Jul 20, 2010
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    In today's lesson we are warned that apart from God, we will not gain anything from all our toil.

    Scripture People today want to live meaningful lives. They have questions such as: • What is the meaning of life? • Why am I so unhappy? • Does God really care? • Why is there so much suffering in the world? • Why is there so much injustice in the world? • Is ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Freddy Fritz avatar

    The Vanity Of Wisdom Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Jul 24, 2010
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    In today's lesson, we learn that apart from God, we will not gain anything from wisdom.

    Scripture Dr. David A. Hubbard, former president and professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, told the following story in his commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes: I hated to dampen their sparkling spirits, but I had to help them face reality. Year after year I ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Chasing After The Wind

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Aug 3, 2010
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    We can live a meaningful life4 in a world filled with vain pursuits.

    Title: Chasing After the Wind Text: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 Thesis: We can live a meaningful life in a world filled with vain pursuits. Introduction: The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite bible books… despite its reputation as somewhat of a downer, I find it to be filled with wit ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Dr. Ezra Aniebue avatar

    How To Handle Hard Times

    Contributed by Dr. Ezra Aniebue on Dec 25, 2009
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    Don’t allow any hard time to break you, to cause you to quit, give up and lose hope. Instead learn the principles that will make you harder than your hard time. When you are harder than your hard time, you will send your hard time packing and running from

    Hard times are real. Difficult situations are not new. The book of Eccl.1: 9 says, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The hard time that you are experiencing now, or that you will ever ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • RAJKUMAR PULLA avatar

    Nothing New Series

    Contributed by Rajkumar Pulla on Jan 1, 2010
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    If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17

    There is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9) My third job as a teenager (the one right before I went into the Air Force), was as a box boy for McCoy’s Markets, in hyderabad, andhra predesh. One of the other box boys was named David, and I remember him well. We nodded and said "Hi" to each ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

  • Greg Wiens avatar

    Into To Ecclesiastes Series

    Contributed by Greg Wiens on Mar 30, 2010
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    This is my introduction to my sermon series on Ecclesiastes. It has a lot of history and background.

    Show Video from ALPHA Course # 2Alpha Course More to life than this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGI3z9YXW9A Read Scripture Passage SLIDE 2+3 Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 1 These are the words of the Teacher, King David’s son, who ruled in Jerusalem. Everything Is Meaningless 2 ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Neal Gracey avatar

    Nothing New Under The Sun

    Contributed by Neal Gracey on Apr 3, 2010
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    Is there anything new under the Sun? Has anything changed? I Think NOT…

    Ecc 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecc 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Is there anything new ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Searight avatar

    In Christ We Have Hope

    Contributed by Paul Searight on Feb 19, 2010
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    In Christ life isn’t meaningless - we have a living hope, a promise from God that there is more to life than this...

    Ecclesiastes 1 NIV 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! 
 Everything is meaningless." 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Thomas Swope avatar

    Wealth + Power + Knowledge = Zero Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Dec 11, 2010
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     | 6,563 views

    A study of chapter 1 verses 1 through 18

    Ecclesiastes 1: 1 – 18 Wealth + Power + Knowledge = Zero 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” 3 What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

  • Donald McCulley avatar

    The Purposeless Driven Life Series

    Contributed by Donald Mcculley on Dec 5, 2011
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     | 8,212 views

    Have you ever thought about the purposeless driven life?

    THE PURPOSELESS DRIVEN LIFE Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 Introduction: Rick Warren has caught a lot of people’s attention with his books The Purpose Driven Church and The Purpose Driven Life. Have you ever thought about the purposeless driven life? This is the first sermon in a series on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    Nothing New Under The Sun?

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Jan 3, 2014
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    Life apart from God is a death of fathomless despair. Life in Christ is an inextinguishable hope.

    Nothing New Under the Sun? Ecclesiastes 1:8-11 The “Preacher” has just examined the course of “nature” and has come up with a pessimistic conclusion that everything is useless or meaningless. We as Christians who can see above the horizon of the sun to God who has made ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    Can You Catch The Wind With Your Hands?

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Jan 13, 2014
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    All way to meaning apart from God is but a grasping for the wind. But the way of Christ is the way to meaning.

    Can You Catch the Wind With Your Hands? Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 The Preacher uses many colorful metaphors to describe the vanity of everything he sees and does. In many ways, the Book of Ecclesiastes purposely paints the despair and futility he feels with the most colorful terms. He describes life to ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jarrod Jones avatar

    Rumors Of Another World

    Contributed by Jarrod Jones on Jun 19, 2013
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    Our unquenchable desires for meaning and more declare that we are made for meaning and more, namely God, and therefore we will only find meaning and more (satisfaction) in Him alone.

    Introduction Blaise Pascal- 17th Century French/Christian Philosopher (Disinherited Prince Syndrome): Someone who had it all, then lost it all, then spends rest of life trying to recover what he knows down deep he once possessed (Meaning and More). “If I find in myself a desire which no ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Dean Courtier avatar

    Changed By The Stream Of The Spirit Series

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Aug 20, 2015
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     | 6,248 views

    We all experience different situations, circumstances and opportunities. Yet each of us have been and continue to be blessed by God.

    Changed by the Stream of the Spirit We are continuing in our series on Supernatural Springs and this month we are focussing on the Stream of the Spirit. As always the question to begin: Do you seek a good life or a changed life? In our lives, we all have something that we can thank God for. We ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal