Ecclesiastes commentaries or sermon series

[Seeking_Thy_Kingdom]

What commentaries or sermon series would you recommend for a study on Ecclesiastes? I am not looking for something overly technical, but rather practical and experiential.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

You are looking for Charles Bridges' commentary.

Download:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjALegQIDBAB&usg=AOvVaw0Pr2VXC8eRVV_a6EY_PPf-

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Or read online:

An exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes : Bridges, Charles, 1794-1869 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes bibliographical references and index

archive.org

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

Pair Bridges with the Puritan, Edward Reynolds:

A Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes

books.google.com

If you combine those two, you are in for an edifying and rich study.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

My wife and I studied Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 today. It was convicting. How often we forget that to live properly is to prepare to die well.

O, Lord, teach me to number my days.

 

[Stephen L Smith]

As someone who has battled a lot with mental health over the years Ecclesiastes has made good sense to me. I came to appreciate the book in my Teens.

 

[Stephen L Smith]

to live properly is to prepare to die well.

Our people die well [John Wesley].

 

[Jake]

This is very introductory, but How to Read Proverbs is really a good overall introduction to the wisdom literature and includes a great chapter on Ecclesiastes. https://www.wtsbooks.com/products/how-to-read-proverbs-tremper-longman-9780877849421

 

[ADKing]

You must check out "The Royal Preacher" by James Hamilton. It is not a full commentary but a series of very excellent sermons/lectures. It is outstanding and great from the experiential standpoint. https://books.google.com/books?id=e...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Taylor]

This isn’t a commentary, but it’s a great introductory sermon to Ecclesiastes by Joe Morecraft that will help frame your studies.

 

[greenbaggins]

For practical and experiential, I would recommend the following resources: Ecclesiastes, by Phil Ryken; Ecclesiastes, by Douglas O'Donnell; Recovering Eden, by Zach Eswine; Living Life Backward, by David Gibson; and Ecclesiastes: Life in a Fallen World, by Benjamin Shaw. For older works, the ones suggested above fill the bill nicely.

 

[py3ak]

I like Derek Kidner (not just the commentary but also The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) and Herbert Leupold.

 

[Ed Walsh]

What commentaries or sermon series would you recommend for a study on Ecclesiastes? I am not looking for something overly technical, but rather practical and experiential.

This little 180 page commentary by a modern author might fit the bill. I read it cover-to-cover and enjoyed it.

Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Volume 18
General Editor: Donald J. Wiseman
Ecclesiastes
An Introduction and Commentary
Michael A. Eaton

AUTHOR’S PREFACE​

If it needs a man who has suffered to write a commentary on Job, and if only a restored rebel can comment on Jonah, perhaps the only person entitled to comment on Ecclesiastes is a cynic who has revolted from the world in disillusionment and disgust. If so, I qualify. It is an experience that many have been through, and from which some never emerge. So it is not surprising to find that a most diverse circle of admirers are drawn to Ecclesiastes with a sense of fellow-feeling for one whom they sense is a ‘gentle cynic’. Starting from widely separated perspectives, men have seen life, in W. E. Henley’s words, as

… a smoke that curls—
Curls in a flickering skein
That winds, and whisks and whirls,
A figment thin and vain,
Into the great Inane.
One end for hut and hall!
One end for cell and stall!
Burned in one common flame
Are wisdoms and insanities.
For this alone we came:
O vanity of vanities.
(Of the Nothingness of Things)​

I bear witness that the Preacher’s advice, blunt and realistic as it is, is the only remedy to that particular malaise. A ‘handful of quietness’ (Eccl. 4:6) from him who rules the ‘times and seasons’, Qoheleth’s God and mine, is the only cure. I cast this particular piece of bread upon the waters with the prayer that others may make the same discovery.