Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at the scripture we studied this week at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's Word to our lives.

Well, we kicked off a new series. We sure did.

It's a strong start.

I feel very grateful because, I mean, I told some of y'all, you know, when Donna and I boarded the plane to attend our friend's funeral Saturday morning, this sermon was 40 pages,

40 pages of notes for me and needed to become a sermon, which for me is usually about four pages of notes.

And I thought, I just do not even know how to get there in this kind of time frame.

You could argue I did not. I think Elizabeth probably would, given the time of the frame. You could argue I did not.

I think Elizabeth probably would, given the time of the sermon.

I did not bring up the length of this message.

All right.

Well, it was noted earlier.

Let the record also show when I brought it up.

I said...

Hold on.

Let me pull the record out.

We don't have a record.

I said it did not feel like you taught 58 minutes in the first gathering.

I was just pointing out a fact that you did.

I appreciate that.

Well, I felt an enormous sense of gratitude that, I mean, when I started, it's fascinating, and we'll talk a bit, I want to

mention some of the sources that have been helping me as we study this book, but it is interesting

to see, I probably looked at, I don't know how many different kind of sources of information on Ecclesiastes, but I probably

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