Series Imagery and Playlist Explanation:
The artwork for the Ecclesiastes sermon series is inspired by dichroic glass and refracted light. Dichroic glass is unique in that it displays different colors based on the perspective of the view and the location of the light. Depending on where you stand and how the light meets it, different colors emerge. It reminds us that "at the end of the day" our perspective is often shaped by our posture and what is illuminating our view.
The graphic features five abstract glass forms representing the recurring carpe diem invitations found throughout Ecclesiastes. The light through the glass forms is what creates the color you see in the graphic. These statements are invitations to receive all moments of life as a gift from God, and the glass represents the lens through which we see those gifts and how they refract light into our lives.
That is the hope behind the series: that Ecclesiastes would become a lens through which we learn to view all of life. Moments of beauty, tension, grief and joy can be seen through the wisdom of God. While this book of the Bible is often misunderstood as being pessimistic, it helps us in that it does not ignore the complexities of “life under the sun.” Because of this, it invites us to pay attention and to see everything with a new perspective. Every moment can bear witness to this beautiful, refracted light when we receive it as a gift from God.
The series playlist is designed in an antiphonal style, moving in a call-and-response pattern that confronts the existential questions of life and responds with bold enjoyment, reflecting the hope seen through the lens of Christ. As
Ecclesiastes' wisdom points us to the futility of life "under the sun" it encourages us in Christ to "rejoice!" [Ecclesiastes 11:9]
