Remember Your Creator 31 May 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 11-12 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome: Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: (George Wald in “Innovation and Biology,” Scientific American, Vol. 199, Sept. 1958, p. 100) “There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising […]
Insight for Living 24 May 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 9:1-10:20 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome: Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: How much spiritual insight do you have? Solomon wrote in (Proverbs 22:3) “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” […]
Wisdom is Profitable 17 May 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 7:11-8:17 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: The book of Ecclesiastes talks a lot about man’s wisdom, but in our text this morning, I believe Solomon is talking about God’s wisdom. It is the God-given ability to […]
Better Advice 3 May 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 7 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome: Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: Throughout the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon makes many contrasts using the words “better … than”. We have noted several already. However, here in chapter 7, he gives us a cluster […]
What is NOT Good for Us? 26 April 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 6 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome: Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: Children often lack the wisdom to discern what is good for them. Given the choice, they will choose to eat sweets rather than veggies, to stay […]
Calming Advice 19 April 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 5:1-20 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Welcome: Welcome to our Sunday morning online church service. Prayer Introduction: In times of distress, pandemic, sadness, sickness or fear one of the best things we can receive is calming advice. Transition: In Ecclesiastes 5, God gives us four words of […]
At Calvary – Great Hymns of the Faith 477 1 Years I spent in vanity and pride, caring not my Lord was crucified, knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary. Refrain: Mercy there was great, and grace was free; pardon there was multiplied to me; there my burdened soul found liberty at […]
Man is Limited 22 March 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Introduction: When we read a sign, “Wet paint! Do not touch!” we often desire to touch it anyway. Our human nature hates being limited. Transition: In Ecclesiastes 3, we are going to see that God limits man in at least […]
If I Just Had More! 15 March 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 2:1-26 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Introduction: Have you ever thought, “If I just had more ___ that would really satisfy me.” It may be more money, more friends, more popularity, more clothes, more pleasures or anything else you desire. The reality is that […]
Life is a Short, Painful Heartache 1 March 2020 AM – Ecclesiastes 1:3-18 – Ecc20 – Scott Childs Introduction: Last week, we learned that Solomon probably wrote the book of Ecclesiastes to a young philosopher. In it, he gives frustrating examples of how life under the sun (earthly life) does not make sense. It is […]