“Toiling for what?” is the first sermon in our series in Ecclesiastes, “Life is a vapour”. It was preached by Martin Parker on Sunday 5th January 2020. Text: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11. We explore a reality we cannot avoid, a monotony we cannot escape and an appetite we cannot satisfy that leads the Teacher to ask, “What does man gain from all his labour at which he toils under the sun?”