Read (with comment): Ecclesiastes 12:1-5
Tonight we complete our series on the Bible’s teaching about our working life. I will follow this with several Sunday evenings devoted to the Sabbath Day as the biblical counterpoise to our life of l…
Review
We have been talking about our working lives as Christians, our occupations, these Sunday evenings. We have argued that the Bible teaches Christians to see their work as a service rendered directly to God and…
Review
We have been talking about our working lives as Christians, our occupations, these Sunday evenings. We have so far argued that the Bible teaches Christians to see their work as a service rendered directly to God and as an instrument…
Review
In this study we are using the term ‘work’ to refer to our living, our occupation, whatever it may be. The Scripture uses the word in this same way and speaks at length about work in this sense (Ps 104:23) We…
Review
In this study we are using the term ‘work’ to refer to one’s living, one’s occupation, whatever it may be. The Scripture uses the word in this same way and speaks at length about work in this sense (Ps 104:23) We have so far argued that t…
We have so far argued that the Bible teaches Christians to see their work as a service rendered directly to God, to see it as holy. Further they are to understand their work as an instrument through which God’s blessing comes to them. Last time we co…
Review
We have spent so far three Sunday evenings summarizing the Bible’s theology of work, or, better, introducing that theology. Remember, we are talking about work in the sense of one’s occupation, the sense in which it is used, for exam…
We concluded last time, having argued from Scripture, that work is holy—all kinds of work, all manner of occupations—and that in doing one’s work as unto the Lord one is serving him. This understanding of a Christian’s vocation has often been lost to…
We concluded last time by noting that the original idea of the early church seems to have been that of Christians giving glory to God in and through their occupations, doing the same jobs as unbelievers but performing them in a distinctly Christian w…
Tonight we begin a new series of sermons, this devoted to the Bible’s theology of work. Rather than simply pick up a different part of the Bible and begin in chapter 1, I thought I would do another of these series devoted to a theme as I have done fr…