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Gifts. Perhaps most of our concern, energy, financial resources at Christmas involve the selection, purchase, and giving of gifts. Often this concern...
Matthew 6:5-15 5 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to...
As we enjoy the long Labor Day weekend, let’s not forget what the holiday celebrates: ordinary, everyday work. If you’re a pastor...
Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord...
Bill Peel lays out a sermon on making your work count for God.
Sometimes work is exciting, engaging, and challenging. We make discoveries, help other people and build something worth...
My dad chooses to see work as life-giving instead of soul-draining.
Psalm 113 celebrates the greatness of God. It calls us to praise the Lord because he is “high above the nations” (113:4).
Throughout his ministry, Jesus had proclaimed the coming of the kingdom of God. For first-century Jews, this implied that a divinely anointed royal figure would soon expel the Romans from Judea.
I can still remember Mrs. Merrill calling the first-graders to worship in the Sunday School of Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Quoting from the King James version of prophet Habakkuk, Mrs. Merrill...
Psalm 96 begins with a simple imperative: “Sing a new song to the LORD!” If you look up all of the Hebrew...
Where does worship lead? When we gather together as the people of God to offer praise, thanks, and worship to our Lord, where does this take us? What happens in us and to...
The LORD is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world...
Church leaders, rightly, have a primary thing on their mind: The mandate to see people come to salvation in Christ. Church programs...
Today is a special holiday in the Christian year (sometimes called the liturgical year or the church year). It is Christ the...
Psalm 84 celebrates the temple of God in Jerusalem. It begins “How lovely is your dwelling place...
Psalm 76 celebrates the justice and strength of God, who “breaks the pride of princes, and the kings of the earth fear him” (76:12). He is truly “glorious,” “even more majestic than the everlasting...
God, help us to build a new world in the midst of the old, a world where all workers are valued. We pray for the coming of a world where all workers everywhere...
I am one of those peculiar people who wakes up with a song in my head. It happens almost every morning. And...
I just paid the electric bill. This time was no different than any other time.
