Sermons About Work
God's Work
The image of God as an old grandfather sitting around on a cloud watching the events of the world as they take place could not be further from the truth. God is anything but passive! He is a very active God that is constantly at work. This week we will learn to see what Jesus saw; God is always at Work!
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Making Life Work - Trust God
The book of Proverbs encourages us to trust God and pursue wisdom repeatedly. It says that pursuing wisdom is like cultivating a relationship with a beautiful woman. Originally written to adolescent boys in training, the point is clear about wisdom's significance. When we walk the path of wisdom we become more than just people who know how to make good choices.
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Finding God In Times Of Emotional Trauma & Confusion
Pastor gives us a guide to staying on the right track amidst some of the difficulties of life.
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Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?
Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries brings a Word concerning our relationship with Our Beloved Pastor George and he also shares a sermon on Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test? Podcast Legend: 00:00 – 38:15 – Worship 38:16 – 43:20 – Pastor George prays 43:21 – 44:48 – Cookie brings a Word 44:49 – 50:55 – Pastor George’s radio preview 50:56 – 52:47 – Various announcements 52:48 – 1:08:15 – Betty speaks then Cindi & Pastor pray with her 1:08:16 – 1:31:02 - Dick Dungan brings a Word concerning Our Beloved pastor George 1:30:03 – 1:53:30 – Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries shares on “Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?” 1:53:31 – 2:03:42 – Closing Worship & Benediction
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Shift Work
Work is more than something we're cursed to do all our lives, but it's also less than the reason for our existence.
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The Church - God's Work
People play a significant role in God’s work in building His church. Listen as Pastor Tim unfolds the impact of what future reality has on believers now.
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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Training for Godliness: Just Do It
We never drift into godliness - it takes hard work. But godliness holds great value both in this life and in the next.
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Nehemiah #11 - Seeing the Work Through to the End- No Compromise
Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem to find that Eliashib, the high priest, has given a room to Tobiah, the Ammonite. Other problems Nehemiah faced were an assortment of foreign wives married into God's family. Nehemiah demonstrates a "no compromise" attitude toward all these violations of God's law.
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The Hope of the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:58)
Our view of Christ's work and our work should reflect 1 Corinthians 15. The emphasis is on Christ's work: 1) Christ's resurrection motivates and empowers our work; 2) Christ's resurrection secures our resurrection; and 3) Christ's resurrection fuels hope for this life. Because of Christ's work, we can be steadfast, immovable, and abounding in the work the Lord has for us.
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Small Town Southern Man
Not everybody is cut out to live life in the fast lane. Some of us can serve God & further the Gospel by living quiet lives, minding our business, and working at the things we do best.
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Zip it - Gossip
Our culture has turned gossip into a commodity that is bought and sold. We have made talking about others in a negative way the norm. Paul calls our mouth an open sewage leak and encourages that we build up others with our words instead.
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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Nehemiah #7 Putting Your Hand to Work
After the people had a mind to work they needed to put their hand to work. This message is about stepping up and getting involved in the church
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Why Do We Work?
As the Teacher in Ecclesiastes considers the problems with human labor, we are forced to ask not only, "Why do we work?", but more importantly, "For whom do we work?"
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Finding Professional Margin
The key to professional margin is focus. We should learn to work toward what we're good at--which means improving our strengths and delegating our areas of weakness. When we learn to do less, we accomplish more.
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Why Worry?
Will I trust my heavenly Father to take care of me? OR will I take matters into my own hands? Balancing my responsibility to work hard, give generously, save regularly, and spend wisely with an absolute confidence that God is my provider is a difficult balance for all of us to maintain. It is so easy to begin to believe that we have to look after ourselves, and to become consumed with "having enough." Jesus challenges us to put our trust in Him alone and to give up the useless habit of worry…easy to say ... hard to live out! Key Passage: Matthew 6:19-34
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Pick Up That Baton
Pick Up That Baton What matters most? ‘Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…’ Hebrews 12:2a ‘And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and than will the end come’ Matthew 24:4-14 I am struck with the realization that the timing of God’s purposes is at times contingent on people. God has a plan that is relying on you and me to carry out. We are members of the kingdom of God and to some degree responsible how it is administered on this earth during our lifetime. So while life may be looked at as a race that we as individuals run, as Paul described it, it is also a relay. We are an integral part of the whole. What we do or don’t do contributes to, or adversely affects the completion of God’s plan. We easily lose sight of the significance of the moment in the larger picture of what God has done, is doing, and will do. Some characteristics of the early church (first three centuries). 1. They were moved by a burning conviction Galatians 2:20 2. Persecution and the Christian’s response to it had a profound impact on those who witnessed and administered it.Hebrews 11:32-40 3. The gospel as presented filled a heartfelt need. It presented life change and grace. Ephesians 2:8, James 1:12 4. The practical expression of Christian love was one of the most powerful causes of early Christian success Matthew 25:35-40 We are on the team with them and are called to ‘Pick up the Baton’ and run our portion of the race. The video watched during the services can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnT84Eu-oA
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Sermon Labor
Sermon "Labor", Sermons in The ABCs Series on the Teachings of Jesus. Letter L of this Sermon Series speaks of Jesus Teaching about "Those Who Labor". Scriptures used are from Matthew 11:28, Revelation 2:1-3. Bloomsburg Community Church.
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How Genuine Faith Redeems Work
We often grumble about the toil and injustice that can come from our jobs. Peter reminds us that we are to be ambassadors for Jesus at work as well, respecting our bosses and doing good to everyone there while patiently enduring the letdowns and frustrations that come with any job. We should do this because Jesus set the example for loving people while He was being insulted and abused, enduring the cross for our sake so that we could be reconciled to God.
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Re:thinking the Christian Life: Work
Between 50-80% of Americans are unhappy at work.Scripture helps us to find dignity, rather than drudgery, in every job through understanding two forgotten realities:
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Serve With Jesus
Why did Jesus leave the region of the Gadarenes and return to his home area of Capernaum? How can we be the ones toward whom Jesus is moving instead of the ones from whom he is moving?
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Nehemiah 10: We declare
This Sunday we continue our series on the book of Nehemiah. As we journey through this classic book we will see how God has called us to be the church and impact the city. Today we look at Nehemiah 10. The Jews delcare this day in a document of great importance to mirror the faithfulness of God. This document is full of promises to be faithful to God and His Word. The Jews long to be faithful at home, in their rest, at work and in the community of believers. With this new year what will you make of first importance? What will you declare with your life in 2008?
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Taking Jesus To Work
United By The Moment - Week 17. Mark looks at being a Christian in the workplace - a natural extension to what happens after Sunday.
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A Work in Progress
Another way of verifying God’s presence in your life is to recognize that He is committed to finishing the work he started in you. The apostle Paul says in Philippians 1:6 that “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” (NASB) See yourself as a work in progress with the owner/investor onsite to assure that the job gets done. He bought you, now you belong to Him, and you are becoming his masterpiece. He wants you to bear fruit—to be mature and grow as a loving, caring person. As long as you remain ‘unfinished’, you can be certain that He is present in your life.
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The Lord of the Sabbath
As the Lord of the Sabbath (Luke 6:5), Jesus challenged the scribes and Pharisees to rethink their understanding of Sabbath work regulations. His priorities should be ours when we consider New Testament truth. For example, is the Christian Sunday properly regulated by a modern version of Old Testament Sabbath requirements? What would the Lord of the Sabbath say?
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Temples and Trees
After explaining to the disciples that He will be leaving, but busy at work on their behalf, He calls them to be busy in the "greater work" He has left to them. He explains the power in this work to be found in abiding in Him (as a branch in a vine): In His Spirit, In His Word, and In His Love
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Love Letter to The Bride: Part 1
In John 14 Jesus, while comforting his disciples, begins addressing them in truths that would soon become the basis of His relationship to the church... a betrothed bride called to a great work that was begun by her husband.
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Service: Producing the Jesus Way
Pastor Larry introduces the final spiritual pathway in this series: Service, producing the Jesus way. What God is looking for from us is that we would be faithful in making the most of what He has given us as we serve Him in bringing the blessing of the kingdom to others.
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Countercultural Power
Submission can be a bad word in our culture. When we think of submitting we think of relinquishing control and losing power. We identify submission with weakness. Yet God calls his people to view power and weakness differently. He calls his people to exercise their power by living lives of submission. Listen in as we discuss how and why God's people are to live this way.
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God's @ Work
Work is NOT a curse, NOR a necessary evil, NOR simply work. Work is a blessing, a calling, worship.
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Sowing and Reaping at Work
God has built into the earth a principle for living well upon it, the sowing and reaping principle. You will spend about 150,000 hours of your life on earth at work, that's 40 to 60 percent of your waking hours. We should not be surprised then that God has so much to say about this dominating arena of life on planet earth. Here we will look at how the sowing and reaping principle applies to life on the job...in fact, life before the job and life after it, too. Come, walk in the light of the Lord.
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Work and Rest (Labor Day)
This Labor Day the topic was work & rest. You can't understand one without the other, and if you don't do both you won't do either well.
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Your Work Matters to God
Before God created "religious" workers like prophets and priests, He created gardeners. All of our lawful work has dignity and matters to God.
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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What's God Got to Do With My Work?
Christians, like everyone else, often find work frustrating, exhausting, stressful, and painful. Why is that? How should a Christian approach work and make work related decisions? Where should a follower of Christ work? How should a follower of Christ work? Why should a follower of Christ work? Listen in as we turn to the Scriptures to give us God's view of work.
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Redeeming Relationships Part 7: At Work
Americans work more hours in a year than the citizens of any other country, but our work often feels unsatisfying and meaningless because there is so much toil and frustration. As Christians we should work with the attitude that our ultimate boss is Jesus Christ and we are to work in a way that pleases Him and our supervisors at work are just mid-level managers compared to Him. This means that we should work diligently and honestly because Christ sees everything that we do. We should treat our coworkers with care and respect instead of merely tolerating them or seeing them as obstacles to advancement, and we should treat employees with care instead of as expendable assets to be sacrificed to advance our careers. It also means that we should work hard to provide for our families and use our wages help advance the Gospel by giving to the church and to those in need.
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Sabbath Observance
Title: Sabbath Observance | Text: Exodus 20:8-11; Matthew 12:1-14; Isaiah 58:13-14 | Series: Stand-Alone Message | Speaker: Stephen Kroeker
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Jesus, Worthy to Reign
In this week's message we delve further into Hebrews chapters 4 through 9. This section of the book clearly teaches on the sovreignty and priesthood of Christ. Jesus came to this earth and lived a blameless life; He experienced the world that we live in yet, even to death, he remained pure and wholly dependant upon God. Through Jesus' example we too are challenged to depend on God fully, so that we can reign, as priests, with Him. Are you reigning, today? Key Passage: Hebrews 4:14 - 9:10
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Grander Vision Living
This morning you will hear the fourth message in the "Walk Across the Room" series. We were reminded in the first message of the single greatest gift we can offer people by introducing them to the creator and lover of their souls, God himself. We also heard about "living in 3D" -developing friendships, discovering stories and discerning appropriate next steps. This past Sunday we were reminded of the power of story with each of you invited to write your story and send it to mystory@maplecitychapel.com In today's message you will be asked to partner with God in the most magnificent mission imaginable: finding what is lost, restoring what is broken, and reclaiming what is His.
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Wisdom for Work
At Creation, we see God at work, inviting humanity to join him by cultivating the raw materials of creation. Therefore, work is a good gift from God and an important part of being human. Proverbs offers practical wisdom about what work we should be doing and how we should go about doing it.
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The Eighth Commandment (Exodus 20:15)
God's prohibition of stealing covers a great variety of sins, from robbery and burglary to embezzlement (including how we spend our time at work), fraud, enslavement, and robbing God. There is stealing in each of our hearts, and the root of it is our failure to trust in God's provision, and in our covetousness. In Christ, who died between two thieves, we find provision for forgiveness, and power to work faithfully for our provision and so that we may give to others.
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The Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11)
God gives us one day of rest each week as a gift, as an occasion to remember his goodness in saving us and anticipate heaven, and as an opportunity to worship him and fellowship with his people.
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work We Go
Work is a fact of life. The good news is time spent in the workplace is an opportunity to influence and impact others for Christ. The bad news is it can steal away time that should be spent in our relationships with God and family.
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