Explore God — 4.28.19 Sermon

Does life have a purpose? This message opens an apologetics series with a wry story of a man hunting for meaning at gas stations and receiving only a credit card application, then turns to voices who concluded life is meaningless. The core text is Ecclesiastes. Solomon, with more wealth, power and wisdom than anyone, tried every road and called it all utterly meaningless . The argument: life is meaningless without God, who gives meaning to everything, and self-focused questions will never reveal our purpose. Matthew 6 supplies the application, seek first his kingdom and the rest falls into place, alongside the warning that many acknowledge Jesus with their lips and deny him with their lives. Purpose, the teaching insists, starts not within ourselves but with the Creator.