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The same lifestyle of discontent that infects our culture also held sway for many of the Teacher’s contemporaries. In this section he challenges his readers to stop seeking satisfaction from accumulating things. Instead he offers an alternative, one that leads to a lifestyle of contentment.

“The church is full of hypocrites!” Christians often hear this from those outside the church. Instead of uncomfortable acknowledgment of the obvious, I like to respond by saying, “Yes, but if you think they’re bad now, you should have seen them before God got hold of them!”  When it comes to

This famous chapter of Ecclesiastes poses a solution for life’s bothersome dilemma. The solution hinges on how we answer a third question: Who is really in control? If people are in charge, then life is a game of chance whose rules are controlled by the most powerful among us. But if a just and

In this section of Ecclesiastes, the Teacher will look back at his own life’s work. If anyone had a great job, he did. Even so, he asks, “Does it really amount to anything significant?”

Imagine a total plunge into hedonism—following every possible avenue of self-seeking pleasure and satisfaction. Now let your imagination grow further, having the political and financial means to indulge yourself to the fullest possible extent . . . and with no guilt!  Hedonist imagination turns