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Well, how do you pass? gift of any amount. Thank you. Well howdy Pastor Mark Triscoll here with the Ecclesiasties

meaningless life part 16 today's message title is Butternife Logging and we are in Ecclesiasties

chapter 10 verse 8 through chapter 11 verse 6 and well if you've been to a bookstore recently I know most people don't

go to bookstores anymore but every once in Wallace Old guys will swing in on one and in every

book star I've been to recently there is a whole section of books that are really sort of self-help, leadership, management, productivity, effectiveness, category, and lining the shelf are books with photos of highly successful people that most of us know.

Some of these people are athletes,

some are business leaders, some are politicians.

What they all share in common is somehow they became incredibly

successful in their fields standing out from everyone else

and as a result eventually they earned the right to write a book and tell the rest of us how their

mind works how they organized works, how they organize their life, how they overcame

their obstacles and adversity.

And this trend is not new.

In fact, about 3,000 years ago, the most intelligent, successful, and richest man in the world

sat down to write his own memoir.

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