Preparation for Worship
Every generation faces their share of suffering, of injustice, of disillusionment.
God doesn’t owe us any answers; He doesn’t owe us anything. But He graciously put a wise book in the Bible called Ecclesiastes to help us see the futility, the vanity, of trying to make sense of this fallen world.
This book is good, strong medicine, training us to look to heaven for spiritual sanity. We certainly won’t find it under the sun.
SCRIPTURE READING & MEDITATION
Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
“If a man is allured by the things of this world and is estranged from his Creator, it is not he alone who is corrupted, but the whole world is corrupted with him.”
—Mesillat Yesharim
"Of all the subjects we obsess about...success is the one we lie about the most—that success and its cousin money will make us secure, that success and its cousin power will make us important, that success and its cousin fame will make us happy. It's time to tell the truth: Why are our generation's smartest, most talented, most successful people flirting with disaster in record numbers! People are using all their means to get money, power, and glory—and then self-destructing. Maybe they didn't want it in the first place! Or didn't like what they saw when they finally achieved it.”
—Helen Rubin, “Success Excess” (Fast Company, Oct 1998)
LoRd's Day songs for Worship | June 14, 2026
Service Times: 8:30AM | 11:00AM
Discipleship Classes: 10:00AM
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