When easy answers fail, Ecclesiastes is where honest faith begins.There are questions most of us only ask in private—the kind we don’t voice at Bible study or share at the dinner table. What is the point of having it all? Where do you turn when everything you counted on falls apart? How do you hold on to faith when cynicism feels like the honest response? Ecclesiastes has been asking these questions for three thousand years, and it has not flinched from a single one.
A Time for Wisdom: Finding Hope in Ecclesiastes guides readers through one of the Bible’s most uncommon books—the one that refuses to smooth over the ambiguities of life in favor of easy assurance. Part of the broader Wisdom Literature of Scripture alongside Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Lamentations, Ecclesiastes functions as the sharpest counterpoint in the Bible to a life built on easy answers. For twelve chapters, it eavesdrops on the conversations we have with ourselves in the shadows—the kinds we don’t readily admit to anyone else. In those conversations, something strange and necessary happens: the uncertainty teaches us. The questions deepen us. The honesty opens us up to the kind of soulful searching that actually leads somewhere.
This DVD for small-group sessions includes six 10-12-minute teaching videos from author Magrey deVega. With his pastorally warm and engaging style, Magrey helps readers and small groups embrace doubt, uncertainty, and ambiguity in a life of faith. All sessions are closed-captioned.
