As I said at the outset of this series of sermons on Ecclesiastes, I do not intend to preach through the book paragraph by paragraph. We have considered the basic message of the book and have dipped into two paragraphs that confirm and elaborate …
Before we begin to read, a few more interesting details about the book we are studying. Ecclesiastes is an interesting title for such a book. What does that word mean? Well, the term is an English form of the Greek and Latin words that were use…
Last time, in introducing the book of Ecclesiastes, we noted that biblical interpreters understand Ecclesiastes in dramatically different ways making it one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. On the one hand, in the opinion …
There are few books of the Bible that are still today actually understood in diametrically different ways. I mean, there are only a few books that some interpret to be about one thing and others about something altogether different. That is, inter…