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Antonyms: do nothing

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1. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... most-often quoted petition of the Lord's Prayer is the one that pleads, "Thy will be done." How true that is in connection with our daily work. To be praying and asking what God wants me to be doing with my life. To be praying in the sense of seeking his will. To get ... so. I tried it. Once I got a fish line, but no hooks. I tried praying for hooks three or four times, but somehow it wouldn't work. One day I asked Miz Watson to try for me, and she said I was a fool. She never told me why. I couldn't make it ...

2. About Work

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

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King Duncan

... is a gift. You might say: pastor, that's all well and good in theory. But you don't know the kind of dead end situation that I'm in. My job stinks! And I know that in many cases that is true. But that's not what God intended. Work is intended to be a gift. Before you dismiss that idea, let's ask, How did you end up in such a bad job? Did you make bad choices when you were younger? Quit school early, perhaps? Have you simply been afraid of testing the waters elsewhere to find a ...

3. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

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James Merritt

... other words, Nehemiah did not have people, "Commuting" from one end of Jerusalem to the other. In case of an attack, a man would be able to defend his family because he would be right there at his home. Furthermore, Nehemiah had engaged by name over seventy people to do work on the wall. Amazingly you won't find Nehemiah's name in this chapter at all. He had totally stepped out of the picture. You see if Nehemiah had said, "I'm going to do this myself, I'll mix the mortar, I'll make the bricks, I'll repair ...

4. The Baptism of Our Work

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

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King Duncan

... miner for the company. I'm helping people I don't even know have a better way of life." It can improve your attitude toward your work if you can see a purpose higher than a pay check. You are educating young people for the future. You are helping produce a product that ... we do if we try a high purpose a part of a greater design for life. If we cannot, we may be in the wrong place. Work allows us, first of all, to be partners with God in the provision of the world's needs. Can you see how important it is that ...

5. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death

Luke 5:1-11

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King Duncan

... (6) Dare mighty things! That’s what Jesus is saying to Simon. You’re looking at your life through a microscopic lens. You only see if you’ve caught enough fish to feed your family and turn a profit. Catch my vision for your life. I want to work through you to share the presence and power of God. I want you to change lives. And that is exactly what those weary fishermen did. They changed lives and they changed the world. So, the second thing we learn from today’s Bible passage is catching God’s ...

6. Work (Labor Day)

Genesis 1:1 - 2:25

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David E. Leininger

... Isn't A Workaholic, Maybe We Shouldn't Be!"(4) The column says, "Imagine it, God has created the sky, the seas, the animals of the fields and forests, the birds and fishes and ants and bees, cockroaches and people. Then God says, `I just don't feel like working today! I believe I'll have some fun.' "And so God created some fun things. Baseball for one; except that baseball eventually required the invention of catcher's masks and Louisville Slugger bats and such. All of which God put off until it was time to ...

7. A Theology of Work - Labor Day

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

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David E. Leininger

... story of creation in Genesis. God made everything, including us, then, "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it."(3) From the beginning, we had employment. Good, so far. But the next mention we get of work is only a chapter later; it comes after Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit and been found out: To the woman [God] said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband ...

8. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Work

Matthew 5:13-16

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... and I know where you're coming from. When I was a child and a teenager and even a young adult, I saw a lot of work as drudgery and even punishment. And with that attitude we can look at the Scripture and blame it all on the Fall. When Adam and Eve ... so you can begin the operation. It doesn't matter if your pumping gas, pumping iron, or pumping oil. If it's an honest day's work, the job doesn't matter, it can bring glory to God. Every job under heaven can give God glory if it is tackled or pursued with ...

9. The Vanities Of Work

Ecc 2:1-26

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Erskine White

... conquer. Yet within one generation after his death, Alexander's empire was gone. It was as if everything he had done had been in vain. Of course, the world can also wear down the legacies of us ordinary people. In fact, it happened to a friend of mine when we worked together in a factory, pouring cement from a gantry crane. He was someone who wanted to make a difference and one day he got an idea about how to waste a lot less cement on the job. We went to the foreman and my friend presented his idea. But as ...

10. A Faith that Works

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

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King Duncan

... example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do ... as a model for you to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.’ “We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and ...

11. A Faith that Works with a Victorious Attitude

Philippians 2:12-18

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Eric Ritz

... God has given "the preacher" an awesome task to do week after week. This is the spirit in which Paul is describing how we work out our salvation experience. We want to bring honor and glory to the one who has loved us and sought us from the ... home and remove the chickens from your house. God will help you." The next day the man was back again. "Rabbi, it is still not working. The goat is breaking everything in sight. It is causing a nightmare for me and my family. Help me! Save me!" The rabbi told him ...

12. How Does It Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

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James L. Killen

... like Psalms and Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and Job. And it has a role to play in the New Testament faith, as Paul said. But it is different from the wisdom that is written in old books or taught by teachers of philosophy. It is the living wisdom that is at work in the mind of God, the wisdom according to which God created the heavens and the earth, the wisdom that God made known to us in Jesus Christ in whom "the Word became flesh and lived among us" (John 1:14). We get in touch with that wisdom by learning ...

13. Good Works Will Not Save You!

John 14:15-31

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Mark Ellingsen

... partner. You understand the experience to which I refer at this point, do you not? I think of how it is with Betsey and me. When the family is engaged in some new activity or way of doing business, sometimes you forget whose idea it was originally. In my own work, I come up with a new insight or write it down. But was the idea really originally mine? Of course it is my idea; I just thought it. But was the idea not first something I received from the latest book I read and loved? Was it not first inspired ...

14. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... , it is all centered in that core doctrine of our Methodist way – grace. We must be gracious and graceful people if we would do the work of an evangelist. And we must lead our churches to being places of hospitality. I love to think of the Church as the home of ... seemed to say to me in that instant, “Jim, if you and your wife have any value to me, if you have any purpose in my work – it has to do with this odor: This is the smell of the world I died for.” David surrendered to the Christ he heard about ...

15. God Works Through Opposites

Matthew 21:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... and I heal ... (Deuteronomy 32:39)." I kill, and I make alive. God, Yahweh, offers here an unambiguous testimony to the fact that he works through opposites. It is little wonder that God does not do the things we would expect a God to do. No wonder that he ... away. (We are just like that fickle crowd of disciples on that first Palm Sunday.) This is one of the reasons that God works through contrasts and opposites. He is showing us our sin, so that we can be prepared to receive his message of forgiveness. As ...

16. What Are You Working For?

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... Then I take a shower. Then I usually watch television an hour or so...." By then the other party is likely to intercede asking, "I mean, what do you do for a living?" This usually is a good ice breaker. Most of us are comfortable talking about our work. If things are going well it gives us a chance to boast a bit, tastefully, of course. If things are going poorly, perhaps we'll get some sympathy. There is a far more important question, however, than what do you do? It is a question drawn from the teachings ...

17. When Things Don’t Work Out, What Then?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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Edward Chinn

... would like to see you on my way to Spain" (Romans 15:24, TEV). Paul had cherished plans to go to Spain, but he never reached there. He ended up, instead, in a jail cell in Rome. When we face this question of what to do when things don’t work out, we are dealing with a problem that human beings have had to face over the centuries. Look at how King David faced that matter when his little son became sick. Bathsheba, the wife of David’s general, Uriah, had borne a child to David. David had repented of his ...

18. Putting God to Work in Your Life through Peas, Squash, Lettuce, Thyme

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Leonard Sweet

... they are. You probably don’t know who they are, but you know where you can find them. Every community has them. They gather on a street corner or parking lot before dawn. There they wait, watch, and hope that you will drive by and give them a day’s work. Can you imagine what it must be life to live like this? Not knowing where you next paycheck is coming from, or if it’s coming at all. These are the earliest risers in any community. By the time the sun is up, so is the chance for earning a ...

19. Overcoming "Work-avoidance Syndrome"

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

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King Duncan

... So, yes, let's reform welfare ” if we can help people move on to better things. Idle people are not very happy. And that brings us to our final point: LET'S ASK WHETHER A PERSON'S RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD WORK. We all know the importance of a healthy attitude on the job. Every employer will tell you that attitude is at least as important as competence. If you can't get along with others, if you are unreliable, if you just don't care about the quality of ...

20. Who's Working In You?

Philippians 2:1-13

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... to the ultimate question is "Jesus." And our response should be, "Here I am Lord." Use me, take me, fill me, guide me, whatever, but "Here I am Lord." It's all about Adoptability. IV. Credibility The fourth ability we need to answer the question "Who's Working In You?" is Credibility. Julian Gordy, in a sermon titled "Didn't You Hear What I Said?" Tells of a time in High School when a physician came to talk to the school about the dangers of smoking. The physician scared them with his grim pictures of ...

21. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... James. "If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead." Aren't we mocking the Gospel when we reduce the requirements of it to simply believing that Christ died for our sins -- and all He requires of us is to give intellectual assent to that and accept by faith the eternal security he offers? With that long ...

22. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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R. Kevin Mohr

... for those who are in Christ Jesus, and nothing in all of creation — not any natural or human-caused disaster; no crazed fanatic in Charleston or anywhere else — can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (2 Peter 3:9; Romans 8:31-39). God is at work, and though what God does in and through us and for us may at first appear to be insignificant, like a tiny mustard seed, God’s reign grows in us so that our lives and our community of faith can be places of refuge and nurture for others. God’s ...

23. Completing The Master's Work

Luke 24:44-53

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Richard Gribble

... . As missionaries on the road, God has granted us limited time. For some, the time is 25 years; for others, sixty; and, for a select few, 100. Each and every day of our journey presents the opportunity to show the face of God to others, to complete Jesus' work in building the kingdom of God. The road will seldom if ever be completely free and clear. In fact, there are many days when the road is so cluttered with obstacles and various detours that we might think it is not worth the effort. But, then we can ...

24. Faith vs. Good Works

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Scott Suskovic

... rebel inside who loves the ladder wants to know. But Paul says here and elsewhere that the answer is, "No. For freedom Christ has set you free. Do not submit again to the yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1). We hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works. Now there is an even better question to ask: "Now that I don't have to do anything, how then shall I live?" Paul says that we are free but then warns, "Do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh." You are free. The ladder is not ...

25. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... sick, but now it became the most beautiful fragrance to me. I reveled in what had been repulsive just a moment ago. The Lord seemed to say to me in that instant, “Jim, if you and your wife have any value to me, if you have any purpose in my work – it has to do with this odor: This is the smell of the world I died for.” David surrendered to the Christ he heard about that night. We got him into a hospital detoxification unit for a week. We got his teeth fixed. He joined the Prayer Band right way ...

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