Ecclesiastes : Why Everything Matters

by Philip Graham Ryken, R. Kent Hughes (Editor)

Overview

Leading readers through one of the most challenging books in the Bible, this commentary will help pastors understand, explain, and apply the message of Ecclesiastes. Part of the Preaching the Word commentary series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433548888
Publisher:	Good News Publishers
Publication date:	11/30/2014
Series:	Preaching the Word
Edition description:	New
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Philip Graham Ryken (DPhil, University of Oxford) is the eighth president of Wheaton College. Formerly, he served as senior minister of Philadelphia’s historic Tenth Presbyterian Church. He has written or edited more than 40 books, including the popular title Loving the Way Jesus Loves, and has lectured and preached at universities and seminaries worldwide.

R. Kent Hughes (DMin, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is senior pastor emeritus of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, and visiting professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hughes is also a founder of the Charles Simeon Trust, which conducts expository preaching conferences throughout North America and worldwide. He serves as the series editor for the Preaching the Word commentary series and is the author or coauthor of many books. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and have four children and an ever-increasing number of grandchildren.

Table of Contents

A Word to Those Who Preach the Word 9

Preface and Acknowledgments 11

1 Vanity of Vanities (1:1-2) 13

2 Same Old, Same Old (1:3-11) 23

3 Humanity's Search for Meaning (1:12-18) 35

4 Meaningless Hedonism (2:1-11) 45

5 Wisdom and Mad Folly (2:12-17) 57

6 Working Things Out (2:18-26) 67

7 To Everything a Season (3:1-8) 77

8 All in Good Time (3:9-15) 89

9 From Dust to Glory (3:16-4:3) 99

10 Two Are Better Than One (4:4-16) 109

11 In Spirit and in Truth (5:1-7) 119

12 Satisfaction Sold Separately (5:8-20) 129

13 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (6:1-12) 139

14 Better and Better (7:1-12) 149

15 The Crook in the Lot (7:13-18) 161

16 Wisdom for the Wise (7:19-29) 171

17 Command and Consent (8:1 -9) 181

18 Final Justice (8:10-15) 191

19 The Living and the Dead (8:16-9:6) 201

20 The Good Life (9:7-10) 211

21 Man Knows Not His Time (9:11-18) 221

22 No Foolin' (10:1-11) 231

23 A Word to the Wise (10:12-20) 241

24 You Never Know (11:1-6) 253

25 Young and Old (11:7-12:7) 263

26 The End of the Matter (12:8-14) 273

Notes 283

Scripture Index 299

General Index 307

Index of Sermon Illustrations 313