Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

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Am I ready to listen to the voice of God? Is my heart open to spiritual instruction? Are my ears attentive to the message I will hear from the Bible?

Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

Si is it then all about the preach/pastor? No! It's a "divine service" as the puritansused to call it because it is Christ calling, serving, and speaking/teaching His people!!

he is in Heaven and we are on earth,

Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8–9).

Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

When you go to worship, is it really worship, or are you just

Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

“For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear” (Ecclesiastes 5:7).

Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

Ecclesiastes began with the vanity of vanities — the futility of life in a fallen world. Here we see such vanity in the idle daydreams and foolish words of a churchgoer who only pretends to worship, without ever really offering his mind and his heart to God.