Ecclesiastes: Life in Perspective: Time

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-15) | Ryan Falls, Senior Pastor

I. Reviewing

a. We are all on a quest to discover the meaning and purpose of life
b. We often want to live life forward, but the writer of Ecclesiastes is teaching us to life it backward.

II. Learn to be present in the present season (3:1-8)

a. This is talking about the full range of human experience
b. We struggle to be present

i. The roar of the past

“I’ve been painting pictures of Egypt,
Leaving out what it lacks
The future feels so hard and I wanna go back.”
–Sara Groves

ii. The call of the future

III. Embrace the mystery and beauty of change (3:9-11a)

IV. Grow to have an eternal perspective (3:11b-15)