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This Sunday Night Chow PackingSunday, August 23 · 5:00 PM · Merit Center, Winnsboro Pack food for kids in our own schools, then eat together at Johnny’s Pizza afterward. Dutch treat.
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The Informer • August 17, 2026 |
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Church family, We have buried friends this year. We have sat with families through illness that came out of nowhere. Our farmers are scraping a living out of a hard year. All of it has left us asking questions that feel, some days, like they have no answer. Ecclesiastes asks those same questions out loud, in church, with God listening. That is why we are giving it thirteen Sundays, first verse to last, hard parts included, through November 8. Our series is titled Remember: The Wisdom of Ecclesiastes for the Soon Forgotten. The purpose of the book is to teach us to remember God, and to hold on to him in the middle of not understanding. The Teacher spent a lifetime testing whether work, pleasure, or wisdom could give him something that lasts, and found that none of it did. After all that testing, one thing remained: remember God. He hands down his verdict in verse 2. Everything under the sun is vapor. Breath, mist, the kind of thing you can see and admire and never once get your hand around. Then he calls his witnesses: generations that come and go, a sun that runs the same route every morning of its life and ends each day where it started, wind that turns circles, rivers that pour into a sea that stays hungry. And then he points at us. The people who come after will forget us the same way we forgot our own great-grandparents. The mercy is in verse 4. A generation goes, a generation comes, and the earth remains. The sun came up Sunday morning without your help, and it will come up the morning after they read your name at the funeral home. God is taking a load off your back that he never asked you to carry. Everything under the sun is vapor, so receive your smallness as gift. Solitude and silence is the practice that trains that into us, and five minutes a day is plenty to start. Phone off, alone, quiet. Dallas Willard, in The Great Omission: “Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness. You will see that the world is not on your shoulders after all.” Friend, if you are going to be forgotten forever, you can stand being forgotten for five minutes. If you were away Sunday, the whole message is here: watch Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 on YouTube. Watch it this week and come Sunday, when the Teacher runs his experiment and tries pleasure, work, and wisdom to see whether any of them hold. Wednesday at 6:00 we are back together, every age in one room. Sunday afternoon we pack food for kids in our schools who go hungry when the school week ends, and then we eat at Johnny’s. Further down is the first invitation to the Apprentice Gathering, a class I have wanted to teach here for a long time. In the Peace of Christ, |
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Mark Your Calendar Coming Up at FBC |
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Wednesday Nights August Is Family WorshipThrough August, Wednesday nights are family worship at 6:00: the whole church in one room, every age together, no dinner and no classes. The full Wednesday rhythm, dinner and classes for every age, returns September 2. 
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9402 Natchez St, Wisner, LA 71378 • (318) 724-7474 Worship 9:45 AM • Sunday School 11:00 AM Facebook • YouTube • fbcwisner.org You are receiving this because you are a member or friend of First Baptist Church Wisner. |