{"id":4505,"date":"2017-11-29T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scbc2017.com\/scbcwpsite\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2018-09-22T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T23:38:00","slug":"ecclesiastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/ecclesiastes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeker Class: Ecclesiastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Teachers: Terri Chong &amp; Matthew To<\/h5>\n<p>Addressing Mankind\u2019s Insatiable Need for Meaning and for More.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is boring.\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s useless.\u201d, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point?\u201d, \u201cWho cares?\u201d, \u201cIf only\u2026\u201d, etc. We all have hang-ups about \u2018living the life\u2019. We look at our environment &amp; at others to make sense of life, at times assuming it\u2019s about getting a BIGGER.. NICER.. FASTER.. HAPPIER.. COOLER.. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(fill in the blank)\u00a0\u00a0 , which history &amp; time prove to be a chimera of epic proportion.\u00a0 King Solomon of Israel was within the top 5, if not, the most wise &amp; wealthiest in human history, with net worth of\u00a0 ~ US$2.2 trillion in today\u2019s valuation, beating 2016\u2019s top 100 Forbes list combined!\u00a0 Solomon emphasized the theme:\u00a0 HEVEL (hebrew for vanity, vapor, emptiness) re: earthly life 38 times in the book of Ecclesiastes!\u00a0 Let\u2019s gain insight from Solomon\u2019s observations &amp; from Pastor Tim Chaddick\u2019s \u201cBetter\u201d short-clip series that Christ Jesus IS the antidote to hevel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers: Terri Chong &amp; Matthew To Addressing Mankind\u2019s Insatiable Need for Meaning and for More. \u201cThis is boring.\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s useless.\u201d, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point?\u201d, \u201cWho cares?\u201d, \u201cIf only\u2026\u201d, etc. We all have hang-ups about \u2018living the life\u2019. We look at our environment &amp; at others to make sense of life, at times assuming it\u2019s about getting a BIGGER.. NICER.. FASTER.. HAPPIER.. COOLER.. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(fill in the blank)\u00a0\u00a0 , which history &amp; time prove to be a chimera of epic proportion.\u00a0 King Solomon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[442,425],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}