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This week on the Sermon Notes Podcast, Jay Strother and Brian Ball close out their five-week series through Ecclesiastes, Chasing the Wind, with a conversation on chapter 12, verses 9 through 14. It’s the epilogue to a book that opens and closes with the same hard word: everything is fleeting. But Jay and Brian trace how Solomon gets there, and why the honesty of Eccle...

Most parents want the same things for their families: health, closeness, joy, and security. Those are good gifts from God. But somewhere along the way, it’s easy to start building a family around comfort and a beautiful family experience instead of asking how God wants to use that family for His kingdom. On this episode of Purposeful Family, Linc and Elizabeth ask the ...

In this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, Jay Strother and Brian Ball continue their walk through Ecclesiastes in the series Chasing the Wind: Finding What Lasts in a World That Doesn’t. They land on Ecclesiastes 11, and the well-known phrase cast your bread upon the waters, tracing it from a simple picture of ancient trade to a much bigger truth: God calls us to take acti...

In this episode, Jay Strother and Brian Ball continue their series through Ecclesiastes, Chasing the Wind, by turning to chapter 4:9–12. Solomon has spent much of the book labeling the world’s pursuits as hevel: futile, fleeting, like chasing wind. But he never calls relationship futile, and Jay and Brian explore why: God himself exists in relationship as three persons...

In this episode of Purposeful Family, Linc and Elizabeth get honest about a barrier most parents feel but rarely say out loud: inadequacy. It’s easy to spend more energy on where we fall short than on what God is actually calling us toward, and that fear can quietly convince us that leading our families spiritually is someone else’s job. Linc and Elizabeth name a few o...