Solomon, looking back on his life full of every possible success and pleasure, declares that everything «under the sun» is utterly meaningless—like a fleeting vapor—because nothing truly satisfies apart from God. Drawing from Ecclesiastes 1:1-11, [...]

In a time of widespread emptiness and compassion fatigue from overwhelming events, the preacher contrasts mere tiredness with true emptiness that sleep can't fix, using the widow's story in 2 Kings 4. He declares that God is uniquely [...]

Facing creditors threatening to take her sons after her prophetic husband's death, the widow appeals to Elisha, who asks what she has in her house. She has only a little oil, but Elisha instructs her to borrow many empty vessels from neighbors [...]

Dr. Stanley shares the heartbreaking note from a 24-year-old woman feeling utterly empty, hopeless, and purposeless after a lifetime of abuse and brokenness, even contemplating suicide. Using her story and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, [...]