Week 36
Week 35 Study |
Work with Your Hands
It is providential to have this lesson this weekend. Labor Day is a holiday, officially recognized in 1894, to honor the American worker. Toward the end of the 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks just to eke out a basic living. In some states, […]
Week 35 Application |
Painting in the Dark
I’m not the greatest handyman, but painting is one home improvement I’m pretty good at doing. Put me in a room with a paintbrush, a roller, and a can of paint, and I can make things happen (including splatters and drips). Painting can be a messy enterprise, but at the end of the day, you […]
Week 35
Study Questions
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. Is your work satisfying and does it provide meaning to you? 2. Do you enjoy your life and find daily fulfillment? Read Ecclesiastes 2:24-26. 1. The word meaning “toil” or “labor” is amalin Hebrew and Solomon used some form of it 22 times […]
Week 35 Mission | The Church at Work
“If your church vanished tomorrow, would anyone notice? Would anyone care?” Those were the questions posed to our small ministry team years ago at a local ministry conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. There were probably a hundred people in the room that day, but I felt like Rick Rusaw was speaking straight into my soul. Rusaw, […]
