About this episode

Tim explores how embracing life as hevel can enrich our days.

Ecclesiastes E2 — In the first teaching of this series, we explored the teacher’s core metaphor for life, which is the Hebrew word hevel, meaning “smoke” or “vapor.” The teacher takes a pretty dim view of things, saying that everything in life is unpredictable, enigmatic, absurd, and ungraspable. So what do we do with such a sobering truth? In this message, Tim explores how embracing life as hevel can actually be a gift to enrich our days, rather than diminish them. Tim gave this message at Door of Hope Church in Portland, Ore., on January 13, 2013.

Topics covered

• Ecclesiastes
• hevel
• life
• gift
• embracing life

Keywords

• smoke
• vapor
• unpredictable
• enigmatic
• absurd

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