Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations for New Year's Day (2019)
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
The Byrds hit “Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn,” of course comes to mind with this text. But John Wesley better interprets the main point of the text. The turning we do is aimless, Wesley says, for “all things below are vain, and happiness is not to be found in them, because of their great uncertainty and mutability and transitoriness...” (Commentary On the Bible, p.314). To this he added:
The Byrds hit “Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn,” of course comes to mind with this text. But John Wesley better interprets the main point of the text. The turning we do is aimless, Wesley says, for “all things below are vain, and happiness is not to be found in them, because of their great uncertainty and mutability and transitoriness...” (Commentary On the Bible, p.314). To this he added:
