Ecclesiastes | The Vanity of Endless Pursuit - Season 5, Episode 9

We live in an age of unprecedented consumption, yet we are no happier than previous generations. Why does accumulating wealth, pleasure, and accomplishment leave us feeling empty? In this sermon, Pastor Dorrell examines Solomon's radical experiment in Ecclesiastes 2, where the wisest and richest man alive pursued every conceivable source of satisfaction—pleasure, wine, great works, and wisdom itself—only to declare it all vanity. Through Solomon's testimony, Pastor Dorrell argues that hedonism and material accumulation cannot satisfy the soul because they are fundamentally fleeting and superficial. Instead, true contentment emerges not from pursuing more, but from gratefully receiving and stewarding what God has already given. You are challenged to abandon the exhausting pursuit of "more" and find joy in the simple, everyday gifts of life that God places before you today.