Like Paul when he was among neighbors without the Bible, this Preacher in Ecclesiastes, who looks at the world from the vantage point of the Scriptures, chooses nonetheless neither to open them up nor to expound explicitly from them as we gather to hear him preach. Not this time. Instead, he chooses the cultural experiences and texts from our being human under the sun, and from there, as one of us, he tells us about the God who created us and governs the world. With Paul, this Preacher believes that