Hey everybody, I'm Tim McE and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibletproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

In this week's episode we're going to be closing down the three part series.

This is part three of three on the book of Ecclesiastes.

And this message I explore, the theme of work and labor in the book of Ecclesiastes.

It's a repeated theme that comes up in all the main sections of the book.

The teaching voice of Ecclesiastes wants to show you how it's actually impossible to create

meaning in your life from your vocation, your career, your day-to-day efforts.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep working.

It just means you should put all of your life's work in some kind of greater context that

can account and help you work through both your successes and your failures because you're

likely to have a lot of both in life.

There's a lot of practical wisdom and guidance about having a job and wrestling through both

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