How can we enjoy anything when nothing lasts? This is the question we answer in light of Solomon’s famous reflection on the seasonal nature of everything under the sun.
The Reason for Seasons
Reverend Bowen: Sermons
Reverend Bowen is Signal Pres' Senior Pastor.
The Pleasure Experiment
Ecclesiastes 2 runs us through an experiment run by the preacher in his youth. He set out to prove that there was some pleasure in the world that would give…
Vapor! Vapor!
As we begin our study of Ecclesiastes, we focus on the cry of the author that echoes through it all: everything under the sun is like a vapor - you…
Faithful Provision for Life in a Fallen World, Part 2
Finishing up our brief look at the way God orders his Church, we see what happens through a local church where elders act like elders and deacons act like deacons.…
Faithful Provision for Life in a Fallen World, Part 1
As we prepare for the installation of a new class of officers, we are spending the first 2 weeks of 2019 thinking about God’s faithful provision for us in the…
Sunrises, Chickens, and Leaping Calves
These closing words of the Old Testament are ones we sing every time we sing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” More than that, they give us four pictures of what…
The Song of Those Who Wait
Zechariah’s song is not only a prophetic glimpse into what God is doing through the advent of Jesus, but also into what God can do to turn practitioners of religion…
Lessons from Paul’s Greetings
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the list of names in Romans 16. These greetings give us a window into the kind of church that…