"When Distress Fills the Heart" Sermon Questions

1.What is one takeaway you had from the sermon today and why?

2. What aspect of the sermon or the sermon text exposed your heart today and why?

3. What things, situations, or people tend to fill your heart with distress, anger, and anxiety (i.e., vexation)? How are you tempted to respond sinfully when your heart is vexed and why?

4. How does this passage warn against laziness? How does this passage warn against overthinking and over-planning? Which of those do you struggle with the most? How does that show itself in your daily life?

5. Where do you struggle with generosity? What do you think lies at the root of your struggle? Where do you see the fruit of generosity in your life? What does Psalm 112 say about a generous person?

6. Which tends to be turned up the most in your heart, the bass of "darkness" (v.8) or the treble of "rejoicing" (v. 8,9)? Why? How does it shape our lives to have either of those "volumes" turned up too high and the other too low?
7. How can Eccl 11 better equip us to talk to others who don't know Jesus and only experience life "under the sun"?