This week our "Gospel in Life" topic is work. We were created to join God in the eternal task of giving shape, order and beauty to Creation. The practical trajectory of God's redeeming work is restoring our God-like capacities to create and cultivate, even as God restores Creation itself. As such, we can offer all our work as a contribution to God's greater work of bringing order and light to chaos and darkness.
For more on the topics of work and rest, check out the following two links. The first is a sermon by Tim Keller. The second is a remarkable article about Sabbath rest by a journalist and author named Judith Shulevitz. It's the best contemporary defense of the ancient practice of Sabbath I've read, and is well worth your time.
http://sermons2.redeemer.com/sermons/work-and-rest
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/bring-back-the-sabbath.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
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