Date: 07/26/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Pleasure?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Description: Can lots of pleasure make a short life meaningful? That’s the question the author of Ecclesiastes set out to answer with the lavish lifestyle he describes in this passage, a lifestyle where he did anything and everything he wanted to do. His experiment reached an awful conclusion, but his wisdom paves the way for a joyful alternative.
Date: 07/19/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Work?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Description: Ecclesiastes catalogs the meaningless of life “under the sun”—the world as it is if there is nothing and no one that lasts forever. The author takes up his first example with a question: what good is all of our work? The answer? It all depends on our perspective. Under the sun, our work is a dead end. But in the Lord, our work is an opportunity.
Date: 07/12/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing Ecclesiastes: What Good Is Wisdom If You're Dead?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes (Various Texts)
Description: Ecclesiastes is probably the darkest book in the Bible. It’s author imagines the meaning of life if all there is to it is what we experience “under the sun”, as if God doesn’t exist. His conclusions sound remarkably modern: everything is meaningless because everything dies. Unless…
Date: 07/05/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s God (Part 2)
Scripture: Job 40:6-42:6
Description: God's final response to Job's anguished questions about innocent suffering is a portrait of two bizarre monsters, called Behemoth and Leviathan. Who are these creatures, and how is this speech meant to encourage Job and us in our sorrow?
Date: 06/28/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s God (Part 1)
Scripture: Job 38:1-40:2
Description: Job’s lost everything even though he’d done nothing wrong. His main desire was to know why. Near the end of the book, in a passage of remarkable power and beauty, God finally speaks to him. But what God says is not what Job expected. He doesn’t mention Job’s experience at all. He responds instead with a poem celebrating the vastness, complexity, and wildness of the natural world. How is this response helpful?
Date: 06/21/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Faith
Scripture: Job 1:20-22
Description: What is the wise way to respond to innocent suffering? This question is central to the book of Job. No one paying attention to the world can deny the reality of innocent suffering—that our experience of the world is far from what we wish it to be, and often our suffering doesn’t make sense. If Job’s friends show us how not to respond to this reality, Job’s own responses to his friends and to his God model authentic faith in our suffering.
Date: 06/14/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Friends
Scripture: Job 2:11-37:24
Description: Job is about the wise way to respond to suffering, but it’s not just about your own suffering. It’s about how to respond wisely to the suffering of others. The largest portion of Job is a back-and-forth conversation between Job and three of his close friends, friends who came to comfort him but made a horrible job of it. We can learn how to comfort one another with wisdom by recognizing what Job’s friends got wrong.
Date: 06/07/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Suffering
Scripture: Job 1:1-2:8
Description: Job tells the story of a man who was wise and good, enjoying all the benefits of wisdom that Proverbs predicts. Job had everything, then he lost everything, and it wasn’t his fault. Job’s suffering raises questions none of us can avoid if we’re paying attention. At one level, there’s the mystery around all innocent suffering: what is God doing? At a deeper level, suffering raises a question of worship: can we love God for himself, even if we lose the things we want to get from him?
Date: 05/31/15
Speaker: Drew Raines
Title: Wisdom In The Home
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs walks through the lifecycle of the human experience—as a child, an adult, a spouse, and a parent—and applies the fear of the Lord at each phase.
Date: 05/24/15
Speaker: Bill Heerman
Title: Trusting A Sovereign God Is The Foundation Of Wisdom
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs reminds us that the same wise God who designed the Earth and everything within it is also the sovereign God over our individual lives. Therefore, we are wise to trust him to guide our steps.
Date: 05/17/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Contentment
Scripture: Proverbs 30:1-9
Description: Everyone struggles with contentment, and no one likes the way discontent feels. The wisdom of Proverbs helps us recognize where our discontent comes from and points the way toward true contentment through fear of the Lord.
Date: 05/03/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Sluggard
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: One of Proverbs’ favorite subjects is the sluggard—a comedic, somewhat endearing, ultimately tragic figure that looks a little too familiar. The portrait of the sluggard warns us against the destructive power of sloth, and points us towards the invigorating rest promised in Jesus.
Date: 04/26/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: God Sex Is Wise Sex
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs is about the stuff of life, so it makes sense that Proverbs talks about sex. A lot, in fact. What does it look like to fear the Lord in our sex lives? According to Proverbs, wise sex is bounded sex, and wise sex is better sex.
Date: 04/19/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Life-Shaping Friendship
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs describes the beauty of good friendships, the sort of friendships without which we can’t really grow wiser. And Jesus shows us what makes true friendship possible. He is the friend we need so we can be friends to others.
Date: 04/12/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Words Of The Wise
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs 18:21 claims that “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” That’s a strong claim, for sure, but it’s proven over and over again in our experience. Our words have incredible power to hurt others or to help them. And few things offer so clear a window into our hearts. So how do we use our words wisely?
Date: 04/05/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Wisdom Of Ecclesiastes And The Hope Of Easter
Scripture: Ecclesiastes (various texts)
Description: The message of Ecclesiastes is as straightforward as it is depressing: everything in meaningless because everyone dies. But this message is the essential backdrop for the hope of Easter: everything is meaningful because Jesus is alive!
Date: 03/29/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Two Ways To Live
Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-18
Description: Wisdom is about choices. And behind every choice, even the ones that seem mundane, is an act of worship. The wise are those who seek to express love and loyalty to God in every area of life, trusting that this is the path to true and lasting joy.
Date: 03/22/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Trust In The Lord
Scripture: Proverbs 3:1-12
Description: Everybody wants to live a life that’s long, peaceful, and loved well by others. Proverbs tells us wisdom, a skill or instinct for living life well, is the key. And Proverbs 3 shows us where all true wisdom begins. It begins with a trust in the Lord that leans on him with everything you have and looks for him in everything you face.
Date: 03/15/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Seek Wisdom
Scripture: Proverbs 2:1-11
Description: This text leads us to questions we’ve got to consider carefully before launching into wisdom of Proverbs: What does it look like to seek wisdom well? How do we even get started? And how can we know it’s worth the effort?
Date: 03/08/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: How Proverbs Helps Us
Scripture: Proverbs 1:1-7
Description: This opening passage in Proverbs is a poetic introduction to the whole book. It points us to what the proverbs are for and to the truth that is the key to understanding them.
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