Sermons on Balance
Luke 20:45-21:4
The True Motive for Giving Introduction: Last summer at our Free Church National Conference I had lunch with Steve, a long-time friend who pastors a fast-growing church of about 1000 in Omaha, Nebraska. He told me a fascinating story about how he had felt led to speak to a man in his church about giving to his church’s building fund. He had never solicited a gift from an individual before, but he knew through the news that this man had recently been entrusted…
Exodus 18
How to Turn the Rat Race Into a Relay Introduction: Work is sacred. It is God’s gift so that we might enjoy meaning, purpose, and significance in our daily lives. But enjoyment in work isn’t automatic. Like every other aspect of our lives, work has been affected by sin–corrupted, distorted, and twisted. Some people work too much, others work too little or not at all. Some love it; some hate it; some are indifferent to it. We desperately need to recover a biblical theology of work, and…