Sermons on Motive

Sermons on Motive

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…

2 Cor. 1:12-2:4

When Your Integrity Is Impugned Introduction: One of the most painful experiences we can endure is to have our integrity attacked, especially when we have gone out of our way to do what is right.  Has that happened to you lately?  It has to me; I guess it just comes with the territory when you’re a church leader.  But I have plenty of friends in the corporate world and education who face the same thing regularly.  Even the Apostle Paul endured such attacks from…