Everything Is Never Enough

“In this brilliantly crafted book, Bobby Jamieson brings this ancient wisdom to the deepest questions of life. Everything Is Never Enough . . . [is] a tremendous accomplishment as a pastoral application to modern life and culture, engaging with modern sociology and speaking directly to the questions we all ask.”—Gavin Ortlund, pastor, speaker, and author of Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn’t

“Do you feel thwarted and cramped by the ambient lameness of the modern world and suspect the problem goes deep? In Everything Is Never Enough, Bobby Jamieson brings an ancient text to bear on the challenge of living fully. The result is fresh, direct, and enlivening. With the ancient author, Jamieson helps us see the gifts that God is ‘constantly flinging’ at us.”—Matthew B. Crawford, writer and fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia

“Everything Is Never Enough is many things at once, but above all, it is a marvel. It is a searching commentary on the most challenging book of the Bible. It is an invitation to anyone curious enough about life to be dissatisfied with it to press on that bruise, to learn from the pain, to see beyond it to its sources—both without and within. I am overwhelmed and impressed, not to mention jealous, that Bobby Jamieson is this learned, this wise, this incisive.”—Brad East, associate professor of theology at Abilene Christian University and author of Letters to a Future Saint

“Few books in history have examined the subject of happiness more insightfully and honestly than Ecclesiastes. In this thoughtful and often sparkling introduction, Bobby Jamieson shows us why its ancient wisdom is exactly what we need today and how we might live in ways that benefit from it.”—Andrew Wilson, teaching pastor at King’s Church London

“Relish this book with an open Bible that you might see the world more clearly, enjoy God’s gifts more fully, and fear God more completely.”—James M. Hamilton Jr., professor of biblical theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and senior pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church

“Along with a wildly heterogeneous body of biblical criticism and commentary over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has occasioned an equally varied tradition of engagement directed not at scholars and students but at ‘ordinary readers,’ however defined. Bobby Jamieson’s Everything Is Never Enough is the best book in this vein I’ve seen since Jacques Ellul’s Reason for Being.”—John Wilson, contributing editor at Englewood Review of Books and senior editor at Marginalia Review of Books

“As a pastor, I’m excited to get this book into the hands of my congregants. As a father of young adults and teenagers, I’m excited for my children to read and grow in how to live faithfully in this world.”—John Starke, lead pastor of Apostles Uptown in New York City