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06/17/2026

Rejoice in the Labor God Has Given You

This clip is from the sermon A Wealth of Wisdom. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/M4B2ZA5o6cI

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"Behold, I have seen what is good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and has access to his lot and rejoices in his toil, this is a gift from God. For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart."

Your heritage is to rejoice in your labor. Your heritage is the joy that God puts in your heart.

Stewardship for all seasons, God is the final auditor. This applies to your money. This applies to the love of money and the joy and freedom of giving. And then Matthew 6.

Verse 19: "Do not lay up for yourself treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. Lay up for yourself treasure in heaven, where neither moth and rust destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The eye is the lamp of the body. So if the eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

Father, thank you for these words. Thank you for this text. We do want to see the things you have in our lives. We do want you to be our vision. We ask, Father, that the lamp of our body would be full of light. May we not love money. May we not love any possession that we can control. May we hold our hands loosely.

Thank you for the joy of sacrificial giving. Thank you, Father, for the opportunity we have to serve you. May your will be done. We ask these things, Jesus, in your precious name. Amen.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/17/2026

Work Hard, Sleep Better

This clip is from the sermon A Wealth of Wisdom. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/M4B2ZA5o6cI

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"Sleep is sweet to the laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep."

When you work hard, you will sleep well at night. How many of you can think of an example in your life where I worked hard and therefore I slept well at night? Sure. Sometimes I exercise or mow a lawn or do something physical, and then therefore, when you go shower up and get ready for bed, you're ready to go to sleep. You work hard, and therefore you sleep well.

Solomon is actually saying whether you eat little or eat much, it's not about the dollars you have, it's about the fact that you are willing to work hard, and God gives you rest.

The second point that Solomon is making here is work hard, but trust the Lord. To use the few biblical stories there, the story of Joseph is a good picture of working hard and trusting the Lord. Joseph was one of the youngest sons of, Jacob, and he was the favorite. And then you guys largely know the story. He was sold by his brothers, totally unfair, ends up in another country, in Egypt. So he works hard, and he trusts God. And then he gets falsely accused and thrown in jail, thrown in prison. Again, outside of his control.

We don't actually know a whole lot about his internal thinking, but we do see in his life that he worked hard and he trusts the Lord.

You could look at the story of Daniel and see many of the same oppression and weights that are totally unfair in his life. And we think of Joseph and Daniel, to use two quick biblical examples, of pillars of the faith. I could guess that if you were to ask them in those moments, "Do you feel like a pillar of the faith?"

I guess they'd probably say no. As one pastor in my life previous said to me or asked the question, "Do strong Christians feel strong?" Often no. I mean, we just sang the song, " it is not me, but it's Christ in me."

So Solomon is saying here that pursuing the love of something is gonna keep you awake at night. God gives sleep to his beloved.

This is a little bit of the... I use the word hustle culture versus Sabbath culture. So the hustle culture is wake up at 5:00 AM, and you have your workout, and you have your goals for the day, and you have your little timer, and you're gonna do these things and therefore accomplish. And from a business point of view, you're gonna grow your something by 10%, and you're gonna reach new markets, and you're gonna r-rate of returns and all that stuff.

And then the Sabbath culture is to say, "Look, I'm gonna trust the Lord, which means I am going to purposefully pause and purposefully rest." And that sense that I am not working on purpose to praise the Lord, to trust him, to seek first the kingdom of God.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/16/2026

The Love of Money is Endless

This clip is from the sermon A Wealth of Wisdom. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/M4B2ZA5o6cI

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How many of you would like more money? How many of you who don't have a job yet wish you could make money? All right. Fantastic. Now let me use the wisdom of this room. How many of you are old enough to say money's not gonna solve your problems? All right. It's good to look around and learn from each other.

So Solomon specifically says, " When you love money, you will never be satisfied with it." How many dollars does Warren Buffett want or Donald Trump or whoever rich person you have in your mind? How much do they want? Well, just a little bit more.

In fact, First Timothy chapter six warns us that the love of money is the root of evil or the root of many evils. So it's not the dollar that the problem is, it's the love of the dollar, or I will exchange something for that dollar. That becomes a root of evil. Let me caution you that it's often easier to see that in other people's lives than your own.

So when goods increase, they increase who eat it. So pro athletes, here's a quick example. in the NFL, according to quick Google searches, the minimum contract for this coming twenty twenty-six NFL football player will be eight hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. So when you see that huddle of people, you need to think they're all millionaires. Is that wrong? That's not the point of this. We can have that talk later. But the minimum salary is almost a million dollars. The maximum salary for this coming dollars, just for to play, not endorsements and all the rest, is fifty-six million dollars in one year.

Okay, here's something that's a little harder or a little sad. 15.7% of NFL players will be bankrupt in 12 years.

So do they want more dollars? Will more dollars solve their problem? Well, no. The more you have, the more you want.

The internal challenge is the love of money is endless. Psychologists have a term called the hedonic treadmill. That just means the more you have, the more you want, and then you get used to it, and then therefore the more you have, the more you want, and the desire increases and the dollars increases and you're just stuck on this treadmill.

Proverbs 27:20 says, "The human eyes are never satisfied."

So Solomon is saying here that when you're pursuing wealth, the first caution is the more you have, the more you want. The pursuit of more is vanity.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/16/2026

How does the resurrection change the way we read Ecclesiastes?

In this episode of Reverberate, we talk about grief, joy, death, and life under the sun. Ecclesiastes helps us tell the truth about a fallen world. The resurrection reminds us that grief does not get the final word.

Watch or listen here: https://youtu.be/wuxMGlR4WgI

06/16/2026

Our Summer Wednesday gatherings started last week, and it was a wonderful time of informal fellowship and worship together.

This week is our first men’s gathering of the summer, and all ages are welcome. Each week, if you plan to come, please consider signing up in the Church Center app so we can plan well.

https://berean.churchcenter.com/registrations/

06/15/2026

God is God and You Are Not

This clip is from the sermon A Wealth of Wisdom. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/M4B2ZA5o6cI

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"Don't be rash with your words, your promises, or even your dreams, for God is in heaven and you are on earth."

God is sovereign. We struggle with that word to know what it means when we say God is sovereign. It means that God is in control. God is in heaven, and we are on Earth.

I was recently in the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and they had this picture of the light spectrum. So that little sliver is all of the light spectrum that we can see.

So there's gamma rays and X-rays and ultraviolet rays, and then there's what we can see, and then there's all these other things, radar, all the way down to shortwave AM/FM signals.

Imagine we could see everything. Imagine we could see the whole light spectrum instead of just the little sliver. Would that overwhelm us? I would venture a yes. So God gives us what is good for us. So we say things like, "God is in heaven, and we are on Earth," and we say words like, "God is sovereign." That's right and good. And we use words like omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, all-loving. God is all of those things.

Or your child is... You're in the grocery store at 4:30 PM, and you're buying groceries for dinner, and you have a big plan, and your child asks for some candy or some bag of M&M's. And you say, "No, not right now." And he or she falls down on the floor and cries and throws a fit. That doesn't happen in my household, of course. I've heard of people like... No, it does.

So this child wants this specific thing, and you as a parent are thinking, well, you're gonna eat dinner soon and don't wanna ruin your appetite. Maybe your mind goes to dental bills or whatever else, whatever other adult thoughts you may have, and this child just wants this little sliver. And you as a parent are saying, "No, that's not best for you right now."

Every now and then, do you say, "Sure, we'll try it," or the parent is good, the parent is loving, but the parent does not give the child everything they want on the spot. We as adults say that's good and healthy for us being parents to children. How do we handle that with God?

So God is in heaven, we are on earth. God is sovereign. God is good. However, to quote C.S. Lewis, "God is not tame." God does not give us the things we say we want in the order we say we want it, sometimes because it's not our best.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/14/2026

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06/13/2026

Seek First the Kingdom of God

This clip is from the sermon Solomon's Question, Jesus' Answer. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/0dWlDK_6CCU

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"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

Now, I don't know about you, but when I'm anxious, my first instinct isn't to go, " Quit thinking about my own kingdom and go seek that one." But that's part of the solution Jesus says.

If you struggle with anxiety I've already said there's some physical components to that. But if you struggle with anxiety, think how can I turn my focus from whatever that is that worries me to, in a small way to start with at least, seek first the kingdom of God. Not because God doesn't care about you, but because He says one of the ways that you battle anxiety is to seek first His kingdom. To pursue the recognized, treasured rule of your king. To seek first the kingdom. To say whatever all these fears are that swirl around in my head, the thing that's of the greatest value is the kingdom of God. I wanna live and serve my king.

You say, "But, but I won't be in control of my life." Not if you're serving a king. He's in control of your life. But like we saw in Ecclesiastes last week, the king is the kind of king who loves cultivated fields. He's the kind of king who looks at you and says, "And I want you to flourish. I want you to, your life to be beautiful like a flower. I value you more than the birds." Seek first the kingdom of God.

Jesus not only says, "You are valuable and you last," but then he says, "There's something else that lasts. And that's the King and His kingdom. And in fact, we know that's, that's why we have value because we're made in the image of the King, because you were made to know God and to love Him and to reflect Him and to worship Him.

Biblically, humans aren't awesome because they can create artificial intelligence, Or computers, or cars, or put somebody on the moon, or go down in submarines. Those are all amazing things. But biblically speaking, humans are incredible because you can know and love God with your whole being. You were made in His image. That's what you were designed for.

Like birds were designed to go get worms and eat them. Like flowers are designed to come up and put a myriad, thousands of different colors and blooms, shapes, and all of these varieties, and flowers were made to do that. And you were made to know God as the greatest treasure in your life and to live like it. That's what we were made for.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/12/2026

Don't Seek After These Things

This clip is from the sermon Solomon's Question, Jesus' Answer. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/0dWlDK_6CCU

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"Do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?'" What will keep us safe or what will make us thrive? Or what shall we wear?" What makes our life beautiful? What crowns our life? Don't be anxious. Don't in your soul go, "I have to figure all this out because nobody else cares for me enough."

Don't be anxious about these things, verse 32, because the Gentiles seek after all of these things. There's a really subtle difference in the Greek words here when he says the Gentiles seek after these things, and what he says in verse 33, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God." The hint is he's saying the Gentiles kind of over-seek these things. The Gentiles pursue them not in their right place within God's world, but those who don't believe in God, they pursue things like food and clothing in order to accomplish something those things could never accomplish. So they seek them too much. They're aiming for them in a way that they say, "This is gonna solve my problem."

They're looking to fill something in their lives and they anxiously grasp for it.

Don't we do that sometimes?

We want something in our lives that will fill a desire we have, that will fill a fear we have, and so we reach out for something to fill it that can't actually fill it. That's what anxiety is.

Those who don't believe in God seek after all these things. But your heavenly Father, who values you more than the birds, your heavenly Father, who knows you last longer than the flowers. He knows what you need.

And notice Jesus doesn't play the games which we might play. We might say, "Well, I mean, what do I really need? Like, do I need to be safe? Do I need all..." He's not doing that. He says, "Your heavenly Father knows you need them." He knows that.

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

06/11/2026

God Makes Your Life Beautiful

This clip is from the sermon Solomon's Question, Jesus' Answer. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/0dWlDK_6CCU

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How about flowers, the lilies of the field? Jesus says, "They grow and they don't toil and they don't spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

They grow just like God intended. They take in sunshine, they give off oxygen, and they could have done that without flowers that are pretty, but Jesus said, "I'm not only gonna just make plants that accomplish the oxygen cycle, I'm gonna make them beautiful."

When you look around at God's creation, he didn't have to make it beautiful. He could have made it functional. God loves beauty. When you think about your life, God didn't save us just so my life can be functional and get to the end and be like, "Well, I guess I made it." No, in fact, Jesus died for his church to present her spotless, blameless. Beautiful.

If I don't believe that, if I think Jesus is just trying to make my life functional, it's too easy for me to feel anxious because I want my life to be more than just functional, and so do you. I want my life to have value and meaning. I don't want it to just exist and be done.

Jesus says, "You're of more value than the birds." And if God makes the flowers not just functional but beautiful. They grow for a season and then they're gone, and they fertilize the next set of flowers. If God makes those beautiful, how much more you?

See, Jesus looks at the anxious person and what he doesn't do, he doesn't say, "You just got way too high a view of yourself as a human, and God's so much better." That's not how he deals with anxiety. He says, "You're of more value than the birds. And the flowers only last a little while, but you last forever.

So Solomon had asked this question, "What lasts?" What's not fleeting? Is there anything? And Jesus answers, "Yes, you last."

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Berean Bible Church is a non-denominational church in East Knoxville, TN. We are grounded in the Word, celebrating the transformative power of the Gospel. Our community thrives on worship and mutual encouragement, fostering deep connections among members. Committed to our mission, we reach out with compassion and hope, reflecting God's glory throughout our city and beyond.

Learn more at berean.church.

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