This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled “The Skeptic’s Guide to Life with God: Ecclesiastes.” This series explores themes within the book of Ecclesiastes as a way to approach hard topics we often avoid in life. It is easier to avoid these topics, but the writer of Ecclesiastes will not let us off the hook easily. Instead, this book slowly investigates some of the deepest questions and most troubling feelings we can encounter as human beings. While not walking through Ecclesiastes chapter by chapter, instead this series groups together themes around key questions we face in life.

Here are the weekly topics for this series:

January 7 – “Is Life Meaningless or Meaningful” – text: Ecclesiastes 1 [communion Sunday]

January 14 – “The Gift of Doubt” – text: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11; 2:17-26; 4:1-16; 5:8-20; 6:1-12

January 21 – “Are We Stuck in Endless Cycles or Is There Something More?” – text: Ecclesiastes 3

January 28 – “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People and Good Things Happen to Bad People?” – text: Ecclesiastes 8-9

February 4 – “Where is Real Wisdom Found?” – text: Ecclesiastes 7, 10 [communion Sunday]

February 11 – “What is the Most Important Thing in Life?” – text: Ecclesiastes 12 [Child Dedication Sunday]