Timing -is- everything! When we read the list of things that are appropriate in their time, in Ecclesiastes 3, we may be shocked. If there is "a time for war" as well as "a time for peace," then we need to be much more concerned about what time it is! Jesus often referred to this divine chronometry, with comments like, "My time has not yet come..." and, to doubters: "You cannot interpret the signs of the times." Solomon called them, "seasons."

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"I Did it My Way" is the anthem of the fool. As we go through the book of Ecclesiastes together, my mind keeps digging up these old pop songs. Our culture has embraced "under the sun" thinking for quite a while. Solomon would challenge someone's claim to be the author of his or her own story. Life just doesn't work that way, he might say; the game is rigged! Here's Jim to begin the sermon, Best Wisdom: Fear God and Keep His Commands.

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"Imagine there's no heaven," sang John Lennon. But Solomon had done that thousands of years before! Welcome to our short series on the book of Ecclesiastes. When the wisest of the wise examined life "under the Sun," he was way ahead of the new atheists, and even the old Greek philosophers. King Solomon took human logic to its logical conclusion and found: Nothing. Emptiness. Vanity. Jim believes this book has special relevance for our generation.

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