Everyday Living from Ecclesiastes
Everyday Living from Ecclesiastes Explore the weekly readings from Ecclesiastes for an in depth look at everyday living according to God's plan and the vanity that life holds if a person forsakes God and tries to do things their own way.
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- Ecclesiastes 7: 3 - 4 How have you been made better by pain, tragedy, or loss?
- Ecclesiastes 7: 1 - 2 What does it mean to have a "good name"? What does having a good name prepare us for?
- Ecclesiastes 6: 10 - 12 To know a man, all you need to know is that he is a man. What can we know about someone merely from the fact that they are human?
- Ecclesiastes 6: 7 - 9 What wisdom does verse 8 pass along for living life well?
- Ecclesiastes 6: 3 - 6 How does the wise man describe a man with a hundred children or lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity?
- Ecclesiastes 6: 1 - 2 Does possessing talent or weath mean that you will enjoy either? Possession and pleasure are not necessarily joined together. If we are not enjoying our blessings, is God to blame?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 18 - 20 Does God mean for us to enjoy life? What sort of things rob life of its joy? Can you say you're enjoying every day to the fullest?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 12 - 17 What can money do to your sleep? Your peace of mind? How much of our money will we take with us when we die?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 10 - 11 When you are rich, what things are sure to follow?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 8 - 9 According to Solomon, why is there so much injustice in human government?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 4 - 7 A marriage ceremony is a time for exchanging vows. What vows did we make to God when we became part of His bride? Have we kept our vows?
- Ecclesiastes 5: 1 - 3 What guidelines does the wise man give for worship and prayer?
- Ecclesiastes 4: 13 - 16 This is a very pessimistic, but true, observation about life. What do you understand it to be saying?
- Ecclesiastes 4: 9 - 12 How can we be more productive at work? What do we need when we fall? When we're cold? When we're attached? How does God, in Genesis 2, show that a man is a social being?
- Ecclesiastes 4: 7 - 8 Which of Dickens' familiar characters does the description in these two verses remind you of? What's the point of life if it's not lived for someone?
- Ecclesiastes 4: 4 - 6 To be content in life requires a balanced approach. Can one be too content with his situation in life?
- Ecclesiastes 4: 1 - 3 Have you ever wished that you had never been born? Did Christ ever mention a situation in which He said it would have been better if a man had not been born?
- Ecclesiastes 3: 18 - 22 How are we like animals? How are we unlike animals? How do you understand verse 22 in the context?
- Ecclesiastes 3: 16 - 17 Never be surprised when justices dispense injustice or the "righteous" turn out to be wicked. What does this passage say about the righting of wrongs?
- Ecclesiastes 3: 14 - 15 Is there anything new under the sun? If not, how should that truth affect our living?
- Ecclesiastes 3: 9 - 12 How is life to be lived?
- Ecclesiastes 3: 1 - 8 Who determines the broad outline of human life? Which of these "times / seasons" of life are you in?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 24 - 26 Even though a man cannot take the fruits of his labor with him, how should he live his days?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 21 - 23 What did Solomon recognize about work that makes it ultimately frustrating and asking yourself, "What's the use?"
- Ecclesiastes 2: 17 - 20 Men derive a great amount of their self-esteem from their work. But, this week's passage introduces one of the great frustrations and discouragements in building a business, a company, or an empire. What is it?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 15 - 16 We will be dead soon. Soon after, everyone who knew us will be dead. Soon after that, everyone who heard of us will be dead, and we'll be entirely forgotten. Given this reality, how should we be living our life?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 12 - 14 Can a new president enact a policy no one has ever tried? If he can't, does it really matter if he's a wise ruler or a foolish one? Why is wisdom better than foolishness, considering both the wise and the fools die?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 10 - 11 In what did Solomon initially find some satisfaction? Did this enjoyment last?
- Eccesiastes 2: 7 - 9 Did Solomon find satisfaction and meaning in life by accumulating money, possessions, and becoming the richest man Jerusalem had ever seen?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 3 - 6 In the passage for this week, what pursuits did Solomon devote himself to in an attempt to find meaning and significance in life?
- Ecclesiastes 2: 1 - 2 n chapter 1, Solomon shows the emptiness of education for education's sake. What's the next area of human pursuit that he judges to be equally empty and absurd without God?
- Ecclesiastes 1: 15 - 18 What's the down side of getting an education? Why isn't learning, the acquisition of knowledge, acquiring wisdom more satisfying?
- Ecclesiastes 1: 12 - 14 Relate this week's passage in verses 12 - 14 with the teaching of James in James 1: 2 - 4.
- Eccesiastes 1: 9 - 11 Absurdity (v. 2), futility (v. 3 - 8), monotony (v. 9 - 11). The Preacher is laying out the realities of life if there is no God. Nothing we encounter is ever "new". The only new thing worth discussing is the new "testament" sancified by the blood of Christ. (Mark 14: 24ff).
- Ecclesiastes 1: 3 - 8 What's the point of life? After opening with a jarring note about life's absurdity ("vanity of vanities"), the Preacher continues by talking about life's futility. No matter what we do in life, we have nothing to show for it at the end. What is it, then, that makes life worth living?
- Ecclesiastes 1: 1 - 2 Solomon begins Ecclesiastes the way honest atheists, like Sartre, begin their books, by talking about the meaninglessness of life without God. If there is no God, if all that exists is that which is "under the sun", what does that mean for your life?
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