S4:161 Ecclesiastes 1-4

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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What does vanity mean? In today's episode, Emma Dotter talks with returning Watermark member, Nate Alvis. Nate sets the stage for Ecclesiastes, helping us understand the background of the book and who wrote it. Nate explains what "vanity" is and what the call to us is to focus on instead of all the vanity.

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0:00.0	All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests.
0:04.5	You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.
0:09.2	Thanks for joining.
0:10.2	Today, we are reading Ecclesiastes 1 through 4, and I am back in the podcast studio with Nate.
0:18.8	I was going to call you Jones, but it's Nate Alvis that your wife's made a name.
0:23.7	Yeah, that would have been a lot of place.
0:25.4	And I was like, that's not right. It's Nate Alvis. He's back.
0:29.0	Good to be back. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. since you've been here before, we'll link your previous episode where you share a little bit about your testimony, what that's done in your life, etc. But I want us to just jump in. We're kicking
0:42.3	off a new book. Might as well set the scene. Yeah. So would you do that for us. I would love to. I can't
0:48.6	tell you the last time I really read Ecclesiastes. That's fair. On my own, if I'm being completely vulnerable with you.
0:55.4	So this was actually really fun and interesting to dive into.
0:59.3	And really, I think today just want to cover some main themes that set the scene for the whole book.
1:06.0	And then specifically in chapters 1 through 4, you know, we see this word vanity and the phrase vanity of vanity,
1:12.7	repeated a lot. And so I think it would really be beneficial just to learn a little bit more about,
1:18.3	hey, what does that actually mean if the whole book's going to be about this? I think it would
1:22.8	be helpful to know just a little bit more. And so that's really what I want to do. And I hope it helps. It helped me. But I think to start, I think it's helpful to know just a little bit more. And so that's really what I want to do. And I hope it helps. It helped me.
1:29.5	But I think to start, I think it's helpful to know who's writing it and sort of the perspective from which it is written.
1:36.5	I'm of the belief and it's very widely believed that this is Solomon. Yep, I'm with you there. I think it's very
1:41.6	probable. A lot of contexts would show that right off the bat.
1:45.1	You get Son of David, King of Jerusalem.
1:48.6	Pretty obvious clues.
1:49.8	That, to me, right way, was, okay, that seems like Solomon.
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