# Hevel (Remastered)

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Podcast: [Exploring My Strange Bible](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832)
Published: 2026-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Ecclesiastes E1 — In the book of Ecclesiastes, the teacher shows how most of our daily time and energy is spent on meaningless things. The core metaphor he uses to make this point is smoke or vapor, which in Hebrew is the word hevel. So why is such a bleak book in the Bible? Tim unpacks Ecclesiastes’ introduction, its authorship, and how the book as a whole seeks to motivate humility, integrity, and enjoyment of the simple things in life. Tim gave this message at Door of Hope Church in Portland, Ore., on January 6, 2013.

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