The decisions we make as a youth affect how we age. The author of Ecclesiastes encourages rejoicing, remembering, and revering God in one's youth to keep us from growing up into grumpy, disabled old people. This sermon touches on the ideas of aging and awe.

The clock keeps ticking. Our shadows keep shifting. Time passes, but do you embrace it? This sermon considers the enigma of time and promise of God not to forget his people.

Pleasure: the word speaks for itself. God created us as pleasure-seeking creatures. Unfortunately, we have not learned how to align discipleship with desire. We keep following Jesus as a matter of intellect and maintain low-grade guilt for enjoying much of the world. Pleasure for its own sake, says Q in Ecclesiastes, is an idol and dead end. Pleasure as a pointer to God, however, is a guiltless good. So desire God and enjoy life.

So what? Who cares? Why bother? What's the point? If you've ever asked these questions, and felt the futility of life weighing on you, then Ecclesiastes will speak to you. This introductory sermon implores us to resume the search for eternal worth, rather than striving after the wind.

Faith is practice, not simply principle. One of the greatest ways to learn theology is to live it. The book of James reflects a "Just Live It" theology. This sermon takes an in depth look at James 1:19-27.