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Living Life Backward

September 2020 - November 2020

Life is short. We do the same things over and over and over again in a world repeating itself over and over again, and then we die, only to be followed by others who do the same things and meet the same end. Despite how disheartening that sounds, the strange book of Ecclesiastes speaks to this reality and comes at us with a realistic, applicable, and timely argument: Preparing to die has a lot to teach us about how to live.  
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Messages from this Series

Stop Pretending

Stop Pretending

September 20, 2020
If we won't live forever, or even long enough to make a lasting difference in the world, how then shall we live?
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 23:13.

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Find Joy in Little Things

Find Joy in Little Things

September 27, 2020
Facing death can radically enable us to enjoy life. By relativizing all that we do in our days under the sun, our future death can change us from people who strive to control life into people who find deep joy in receiving life as a gift.
Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:26
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 20:47.

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Look to Then

Look to Then

October 04, 2020
Life is full of good times and bad times that we cannot control, but we can pattern our lives in a way that declares that we’re part of a bigger pattern God controls. What a difference it would make in our lives if we began to live in the light of the fact that there will be a then…
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 25:09.

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Think We, Not Me

Think We, Not Me

October 11, 2020
If you can live in this world in such a way that the person or people beside you – your friend, your spouse, your children, your brother or sister, the people God has put in your path – are your waking concern and your dominant focus, then you will find happiness.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 31:31.

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Smile More, Talk Less

Smile More, Talk Less

October 18, 2020
Listen. The ear is the Christ-followers primary sense organ. LISTENING to what God has said and is saying is our main spiritual discipline. We need someone to remind us to listen because we want to look and speak way more than we're inclined to listen.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 24:10.

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Pursue Wisdom over Escapism

Pursue Wisdom over Escapism

October 25, 2020
The invitation of the Teacher is to be a wise person – someone who realizes that living a good life means preparing to die a good death. The wise person is fully alive, engaged with the world and their friends and family and the goodness of creation because they know all this is on loan – it’s a gift. 
Ecclesiastes 7:1-25
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 17:48.

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Seize the Day

Seize the Day

November 01, 2020
Live life with intentionality. The life you have today comes from God’s hand as a gift. You have it for a short while, and one day God will call ‘time’ and take it back. So enjoy life with friends and family because tomorrow one or more of them will be gone – or you might be.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-12
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 20:35.

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Own Cluelessness

Own Cluelessness

November 08, 2020
You don’t know what disaster will strike or when it will strike, so be as prepared for it as you can by giving and giving again and sitting loose to what you have. The Teacher in this chapter is talking about wise generosity that takes action for the sake of others.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 21:38.

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Be a Beautiful Old Person

Be a Beautiful Old Person

November 15, 2020
It's possible to live so as to make old age very sad, and then it is possible to live so as to make it very beautiful? 
Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 18:12.

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Know Your Why

Know Your Why

November 22, 2020
Every duty or responsibility we have toward anyone or anything else, we have toward our God first and foremost.
Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
This is the full version of the service, the message starts at 19:23. 

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