by Josh Waltz | Feb 6, 2018 | A Pastor's Heart
How do you build your life? That’s a question that the writer of Ecclesiastes relentlessly works through as he works through our frustrating experience and our frustrated intuitions. Our culture has many competing ideas on pursuing the good life. Some tell you to...
by Josh Waltz | Feb 1, 2018 | A Pastor's Heart
Maintaining the inadvertent theme of long reviews of short books, I’d like to introduce two helpful books: The Message of Ecclesiastes, by Derek Kidner, Coming soon to a book table near you. Per Josh, this is a very high value per pound. God’s people are usually not...
by Josh Waltz | Jan 8, 2018 | A Pastor's Heart
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!” It’s the well-known and joyless refrain from Ecclesiastes—the obscure book we’re setting out to study for the next 3 months. Why would anyone ever choose to preach through this gloomy book? For one thing, this...
