Title: In Brevity
Reference: Ecclesiastes 1:1–11
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church

We love this kind of thing, the person who comes from nothing… But what's it like to be on the other end? What happens if you spend your existence making yourself, only to look at your life and realize that you hate everything about it, everyone in it, that the position you're in embodies everything you hate? Do you want to be the self you made? - Jackson Cuidon and Alissa Wilkinson

– Life under the sun is futile…

• Wisdom will leave you empty.

• Pleasure will leave you empty.•

• Success will leave you empty.

• Wealth will leave you empty.

• Wealth will leave you empty.

Life under the sun is futile…
…unless there’s One over the sun.

So how, then, should we live?
1. Resist asking empty things to fill you up.
2. Receive God’s daily gifts under the sun.
3. Rest in the arms of the God over the sun.

The [Teacher] spends a great deal of time commenting on the twisted realities of a fallen world, but this does not blind him to the beauty of the world God created or cause him to despise God’s good gifts of human relationships, food, drink, and satisfying labor. These are to be received humbly and enjoyed fully as blessings from God. - Dr. Max Rogland

I Am Not God

There is someone
Who can heal your wounds
There is someone who can set you free
There is someone who can make you new
There is someone and it isn’t me
~ Jess Ray