Fr. Mike Schmitz

Your word of the story of Solomon building his own home and the temple being constructed and the word of the Lord from Ecclesiastes coming face to face with the limits of human living and the limits of human life and the limits of human strength and power and wisdom and work and memory. With you, Lord God, though, righteousness and goodness and justice endures forever.

Your word of the story of Solomon building his own home and the temple being constructed and the word of the Lord from Ecclesiastes coming face to face with the limits of human living and the limits of human life and the limits of human strength and power and wisdom and work and memory. With you, Lord God, though, righteousness and goodness and justice endures forever.

Your word of the story of Solomon building his own home and the temple being constructed and the word of the Lord from Ecclesiastes coming face to face with the limits of human living and the limits of human life and the limits of human strength and power and wisdom and work and memory. With you, Lord God, though, righteousness and goodness and justice endures forever.

With you, Lord God, our works endure forever. Without you, we can do nothing. But with you, all things are possible. Help us to do all things with you and for you and for the glory of your name. In Jesus' name we pray. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh gosh, okay. This is so good. Okay, 1 Kings chapter 7. First things first. Here we are.

With you, Lord God, our works endure forever. Without you, we can do nothing. But with you, all things are possible. Help us to do all things with you and for you and for the glory of your name. In Jesus' name we pray. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh gosh, okay. This is so good. Okay, 1 Kings chapter 7. First things first. Here we are.

With you, Lord God, our works endure forever. Without you, we can do nothing. But with you, all things are possible. Help us to do all things with you and for you and for the glory of your name. In Jesus' name we pray. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh gosh, okay. This is so good. Okay, 1 Kings chapter 7. First things first. Here we are.

We have King Solomon. What's he doing? He is building. Because, remember, we talked about this before. Solomon is the builder. And so he's building his own home. And then we go back to Hiram. How Hiram is an artisan and he's able to make these incredible columns, these incredible pillars, essentially, in the house of the Lord with all the stuff and all the pomegranates and all. It's beautiful.

We have King Solomon. What's he doing? He is building. Because, remember, we talked about this before. Solomon is the builder. And so he's building his own home. And then we go back to Hiram. How Hiram is an artisan and he's able to make these incredible columns, these incredible pillars, essentially, in the house of the Lord with all the stuff and all the pomegranates and all. It's beautiful.

We have King Solomon. What's he doing? He is building. Because, remember, we talked about this before. Solomon is the builder. And so he's building his own home. And then we go back to Hiram. How Hiram is an artisan and he's able to make these incredible columns, these incredible pillars, essentially, in the house of the Lord with all the stuff and all the pomegranates and all. It's beautiful.

And we keep this in mind that while in Second Chronicles, which we departed from for just a moment, we'll come back to that in roughly, I don't know, 15 days or so. we had the story of Solomon completing the temple. But here in 1 Kings, we have the story of him in the action, in the very task of completing the temple, and we get some of the hint of the beauty of the temple.

And we keep this in mind that while in Second Chronicles, which we departed from for just a moment, we'll come back to that in roughly, I don't know, 15 days or so. we had the story of Solomon completing the temple. But here in 1 Kings, we have the story of him in the action, in the very task of completing the temple, and we get some of the hint of the beauty of the temple.

And we keep this in mind that while in Second Chronicles, which we departed from for just a moment, we'll come back to that in roughly, I don't know, 15 days or so. we had the story of Solomon completing the temple. But here in 1 Kings, we have the story of him in the action, in the very task of completing the temple, and we get some of the hint of the beauty of the temple.

Just that's what we heard now in 1 Kings chapter 7. But In our first steps into the book of Ecclesiastes, one of the things we have is, okay, the words of the preacher. Now, the Greek rendering of the Hebrew is koalath. So the Hebrew word is koalath, and this is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew word koalath, which is one who convenes or speaks in the assembly.

Just that's what we heard now in 1 Kings chapter 7. But In our first steps into the book of Ecclesiastes, one of the things we have is, okay, the words of the preacher. Now, the Greek rendering of the Hebrew is koalath. So the Hebrew word is koalath, and this is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew word koalath, which is one who convenes or speaks in the assembly.

Just that's what we heard now in 1 Kings chapter 7. But In our first steps into the book of Ecclesiastes, one of the things we have is, okay, the words of the preacher. Now, the Greek rendering of the Hebrew is koalath. So the Hebrew word is koalath, and this is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew word koalath, which is one who convenes or speaks in the assembly.

That's a note from the Great Adventure Bible, if you'd like to know this. Hence the name preacher. The preacher says such and such. Okay. So that's koalath. One of the things that we recognize is the vanity of created things.

That's a note from the Great Adventure Bible, if you'd like to know this. Hence the name preacher. The preacher says such and such. Okay. So that's koalath. One of the things that we recognize is the vanity of created things.

That's a note from the Great Adventure Bible, if you'd like to know this. Hence the name preacher. The preacher says such and such. Okay. So that's koalath. One of the things that we recognize is the vanity of created things.

Again, not vanity in terms of what others think or in order to preoccupation with the opinions of others, but vanity in terms of vapor, vanity in terms of like, it's a pursuit of the wind. You can't capture it. It's meaninglessness. And there's something that's so good about the reality.

Again, not vanity in terms of what others think or in order to preoccupation with the opinions of others, but vanity in terms of vapor, vanity in terms of like, it's a pursuit of the wind. You can't capture it. It's meaninglessness. And there's something that's so good about the reality.