SeriesEcclesiastes

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 12:9-14 - Becoming Human

    Sunday, 20 November 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Ecclesiastes finishes with a discussion of what it means to human. In the fullness of the biblical story, being human is about knowing Jesus and being conformed to him. This is a lifetime journey in which we apprentice Jesus until he makes us human at last.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 11:7 - Remember Your Creator

    Sunday, 13 November 2011


    Speaker: Laura Giddey

    The Quester encourages us to remember our Creator while our bodies and society deteriorate. How can we do this? How does this relate to Communion? Why is remembering so important?

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 10 - Provocative Proverbs

    Sunday, 30 October 2011


    Speaker: Laura Giddey

    The Quester struggles to find wisdom and meaning in an unpredictable world, much like our own. What is the result of his findings? What can we discover about wisdom through Christ? How do we live with this life-giving wisdom?

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 9:13-18 - The Poor, Wise Man

    Sunday, 23 October 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Wisdom is a hard thing to pin down, but we know it when we see it. This story of the poor, wise man parallels Jesus - the one embodies true wisdom. His life and death give us a mode of what genuine, self-giving wisdom looks like in action.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 8:10-17 – Knowing and Seeing

    Sunday, 2 October 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    We often live with a tension between what we ‘know’ to be true and what we actually see and experience in life. The Quester wrestles with this tension, and gives us some surprising advice in the midst of it.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 9:1-12 - The Death of Death

    Sunday, 2 October 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    In Ecclesiastes, death is final. But the New Testament unfolds great hope for life after death, grounded in Jesus. The ultimate hop of the Scripture is that death itself will die.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 8:1-9 – Wisdom and Power

    Sunday, 21 August 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    How should Christians relate to government? What level of political influence should we seek? How should we respond to those in power? Should our faith and our politics be integrated or kept separate? These are questions with which the Quester wrestles in this passage.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 7:23-29 - True Knowing

    Sunday, 14 August 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    The Quester follows an approach to knowledge and truth that is self-directed and seeks certainty in order to have faith. By contrast, Jesus offers us a new way of knowing that begins with personal faith in him. This faith gives us a lens through which to gradually discover the truth of life, which sets us free.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 7:1-20 – Does Character Matter

    Sunday, 31 July 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Ecclesiastes challenges the old formula that says good character leads to success and bad character leads to ruin. But the Quester cannot find another basis for good character. Instead we need to look Jesus, who opens up God’s story and gives us a new basis for character—fitting participation in the reconciling story of God.

  • Series: EcclesiastesBetter What the Eye Sees – Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

    Sunday, 24 July 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Blessings become disappointments when we can only see the negatives. This passage shows us the folly of focusing only on our problems, and helps us learn to see and enjoy the many blessings God has given us.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 5:10-20 – Greed

    Sunday, 17 July 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Greed is often more subtle than we think and can get its claws into our lives in all kinds of ways. In a culture of greed, the Quester invites us to pursue a different type of life, characterised by joy, contentment and true satisfaction.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 5:1-7 – Let Your Words Be Few

    Sunday, 10 July 2011


    Speaker: Andrew Picard

    In this message Andrew Picard describes the difference between a self-referenced life, in which our worship is hasty and presumptuous, with a God-referenced life, which is centred around Christ.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 4:1-12 – Two’s Company

    Sunday, 3 July 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Relationship and friendship are central to what it means to be human. Ecclesiastes 4 gives us a vision of friendship that involves personal presence, authenticity and genuine care.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 3:16-22 – Justice

    Sunday, 17 April 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Ecclesiastes laments the injustice in the world and cries out for justice. This points us toward Jesus who brings about God’s justice through establishing shalom (peace) on earth and in our lives.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 3:1-15 – God’s Will for His Life

    Sunday, 10 April 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    We often want to know, ‘what is God’s will for my life?’ But what if the question really is, ‘what is God’s will for God’s life?’ That can re-orientate us to better understand God’s will and how we can align our lives with it.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 2:17-26 – Work

    Sunday, 3 April 2011


    Speaker: Carl Becker

    A love affair gone wrong.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 2:12-18 – The End of Wisdom

    Sunday, 27 March 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    We all want wisdom, but it’s difficult to define and hard to attain. True, biblical wisdom is shaped by Jesus, but not in the way we might think.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 2:1-11 – Trivial Pursuits

    Sunday, 20 March 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    The pursuit of pleasure is common to humanity, but it often leaves us dissatisfied. Is it wrong to pursue pleasure, or is it that we are simply pursuing the wrong things?

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 1:12-18 - Chaos

    Sunday, 6 March 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Ecclesiastes brings us face to face with the reality that life is crooked and we can’t straighten it. For The Quester, this evoked despair. But Jesus gives us another way of responding to chaos in life.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 1:1-11 - Meaningless

    Sunday, 27 February 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Life often seems tragic, meaningless, monotonous and circular. But through Jesus, God has intervened in the meaningless of life to bring hope and meaning into life.

  • Series: EcclesiastesEcclesiastes : The Quester Meets Jesus

    Sunday, 20 February 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    Ecclesiastes is a search for meaning in life, undertaken by a person whom we will refer to as the Quester. This message introduces the book and its major themes.

  • Series: EcclesiastesWho Wrote Ecclesiastes

    Monday, 14 February 2011


    Speaker: Reuben Munn

    An introduction to this years series at Shore Community Church on Ecclesiastes.