Taproot Church Twin Falls

Delight

Release Control and Live Generously

In this text, we're invited to release control by doing good things and then trusting God with all the details and outcomes. We should do this because doing so leads to generous living.

Folly Stinks

Death and Chaos

In this sermon, we will address how Death and Chaos are great equalizers that unite us all as humans and separate us from being God, because God alone has control and power over these forces. Qoheleth observes the only way forward is to enjoy and to do what we do in life with all our might.  The Christian path through the madness and folly of our culture is this: to fear God and trust that Jesus has conquered the futility of death and matures us through the pain of chaos. 

Wrestling With Our Existence

In this sermon, we continue to journey with the Qoheleth in his cynical observations. In this text, he observes and wrestles with kingdoms, humans, and ultimately God. 

Wisdom That Humbles

In this sermon, Qoheleth continues to wrestle with what he observes in life. The challenge of this text is whether we'll be maddened and frustrated by the observations or will we be humbled more deeply into the love and care of God? 

The Heart of the Matter

In this sermon we will see how Qoheleth puts his wisdom teacher hat on and provides us with ideas about how to approach life. Wisdom concerning our future death, and wisdom in patience of our current reality creates a tension that shows how nuanced life truly can be. Qoheleth invites us into this tension as we explore what Wisdom is, how we can obtain it, and how we live it out daily.

We Worship a Holy God

In this sermon we will see Qoheleth, really for the first time in Ecclesiastes, offer some imperatives on how to approach and worship God. We will be observing the worshipful ways of fools, which we all fall into that category often, and looking at what true worship can really look like of a Holy God. 

Two Are Better Than One

In this sermon, we look at the ways in which a community can be destroyed and also the ways in which a healthy community can exist. 

From Dust to Dust

In this sermon, Qoheleth observes the numerous ways in which wickedness seems to prevail in this world and wonders what God is going to do about it.