Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me the honor of helping you learn God's Word.

Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

Happy to report.

We're now seeing over a billion impressions a year staggering as God's Word is going faster and further than ever.

I'm really excited to help you learn the scriptures, and if you would

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Meaningless life. Life lessons from Ecclesiastes.

It's my latest book.

I wrote it 10 years ago when I was canceled,

unemployed at the very bottom.

Life had shot me in the face and I was trying to figure out what to do.

I didn't know we'd ever publish it.

But we will.

And so there's a copy for you.

And in this,

the fourth kind of bonus talk from my home office library study. Welcome to my house. I want to talk about the theme of the book of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes is a book in the Bible. It's written by Solomon. He asked for wisdom. God gave it to him. He was the wisest man

on the earth until Jesus Christ. He writes Song of Solomon Ecclesiastes and chunks of

Proverbs. So three books of the Bible. He rules for 40 years in Israel. He builds the temple

for God's house and he lives his life as an experiment in the flesh,

in the shadow side, in the dark side, pursuing with reckless abandon and no prohibition,

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