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Send us Fan Mail In chapter 10 Solomon completely dispels any rationale to allow foolishness in our life.  It was a clear don’t do this section.  He will continue to point to some don’t do’s, but in light of all He knows about God and the way the world works (all that is under the sun), Solomon is now going to focus on what to do.     References Ecclesiastes 11:1-10   We’d love to connect with you...

Send us Fan Mail It is the very opposite entity of wisdom and on three different occasions in Ecclesiastes Solomon has brought up the subject.  However, in chapter 10, he does more than reference the subject of foolishness; he dives into a presentation of how utterly foolish foolishness truly is!   References Ecclesiastes 10:1-20   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media! Facebook...

Send us Fan Mail Life is not governed by the circumstances of our life, its governed by how we respond to them.  Your response is what you have to live with, therefore your response is what defines your experience.   In Ecclesiastes chapter 9 Solomon tells us all about his observations of the harsh realities of this world and how we should respond to them. It’s a hard core reality check that leave...

Send us Fan Mail From the wisdom of what facing the reality of our mortality can bring us, to all the practical implications we saw last week of what will happen if we actually apply wisdom to our life; Solomon has jumped us completely into the pool of what he knows best – wisdom.  At varying levels of depth, and to focus on various issues, it’s a pool he’s going to keep us in for the rest of the...

Send us Fan Mail "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."  - Charles Spurgeon References Ecclesiastes 7:7-29   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media! Facebook   Youtube   Twit...

Send us Fan Mail We will look at three different ways facing the reality of death can be a good thing.  It’s all in what you do with it!  When we let the light of the Gospel shed its perfect light on death, to see it for what it is, death can become a catalyst for living!  But before we talk about how the Gospel does this, let me talk about what Solomon, who didn’t even know the Gospel, said about...

Send us Fan Mail The fact of the matter is things will and do go wrong.  Sometimes what went wrong was totally in yours or somebody else’s control, however, there are plenty of examples in all our lives of something going wrong that was completely unavoidable with any level of reasonable foresight or planning; that is, withing reasonable planning and execution nobody could have predicted or contro...

Send us Fan Mail Solomon was massively wealthy to say the least.  He was so wealthy that people traveled from all over the world to come learn how he acquired it!  As such, we can only imagine the stories that Solomon must have heard as he entertained guests from around the world.  But it also left Solomon pondering how this could happen.  He came to the realization that if we love money it will d...

Send us Fan Mail Speaker | Johnathan Pugh Religion simply breeds formalism and hypocrisy.  Formalist and Hypocrisy are two of the greatest enemies of genuine faith inside the tent of those who at least call themselves Christians on the outside. Formalism and hypocrisy, while they appear to be two different people in the story, you almost always find them together because one creates the conditions...

Send us Fan Mail In Ecclesiastes 4:1-16 Solomon vents about 4 arrogant patterns that he observed as being woven into the fabric of humanity.  References Ecclesiastes 4:1-16   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media! Facebook   Youtube   Twitter           Instagram  To learn more about Venture please visit Daretoventure.org  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Speaker | Jonathan Pugh References Ecclesiastes 3:16-22   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media! Facebook   Youtube   Twitter           Instagram  To learn more about Venture please visit Daretoventure.org  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Solomon now transitions from trying to infuse things into his experience and instead decides to step back and examine things as they are.  He gets out of the water and sits down on the beach and watches the waves.  He then gets back in the water and paddles out past the breakers and sits up high so he can peer out across the water to see what’s coming; so, he can feel the waves ro...

Send us Fan Mail  Solomon tells us that no manner of greatness under the sun can fulfill you; that is, no manner of greatness under the sun will ever allow you to put your head on a pillow at night and experience a true sense of peace, purpose and value that makes life truly meaningful and complete, This is  coming from a guy who achieved some of the greatest success available under the sun! The q...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be fulfilled? Well, it means you feel like your life has a legitimate purpose; it means you feel like you are valuable as a person, that you matter. To be fulfilled means you are satisfied, at peace with yourself, excited about life, confident about eternity, and as a result, you don’t need or want anything else. When you are fulfilled nothing else matters. Ar...

Send us Fan Mail A real genuine active relationship with Jesus is what overshadows all the turmoil of our life and literally brings us peace! When we are actually living in that relationship, loving being loved by Him and basking in Him, the stresses of this world don’t go away, they are just overcome because we are with the one who overcame them! References Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 Notes   We’d love t...

Send us Fan Mail References Psalm 23:4-5    We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media      Facebook Youtube   Twitter   Instagram  To learn more about Venture please visit Daretoventure.org  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail References Psalm 23: 2-3b   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media      Facebook Youtube   Twitter   Instagram  To learn more about Venture please visit Daretoventure.org  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail References Psalm 23:3a   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media      Facebook Youtube   Twitter   Instagram  To learn more about Venture please visit Daretoventure.org  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail   As parents you have authority over you children, this authority is a delegated authority to you by God. In this sermon we learn what it looks like to use authority in the right ways over our children, to point them to the ultimate authority of their lives, God. The purpose of authority is not to hold them under your power but rather empower them to be self-controlled people livi...

Send us Fan Mail What does Biblical Shepherding look like?  As Austin walks through Psalm 23, we learn how  God shepherds us. As believers we are all called to make disciples, to shepherd others, we need to learn from our good shepherd how to do this well. References Psalm 23:1,6   We’d love to connect with you, follow us on social media Facebook Youtube Twitter Instagram  To learn more about Vent...