10/02/2016
Genesis 4:1-12
Chris Breslin
“If a [person] is called to be a street sweeper, [he or she] should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. [She or he] should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did [their] job well.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
–Joy to the World by Isaac Watts
“Isn’t it true that for a large segment of our people, salvation is expected from nothing other than these things? And the more this longed-for salvation eludes us, the more our plans come to nothing again and again, and the more our life falls from cliff to cliff and from crisis to crisis, the more we cry out for specialists and experts. They must know it. They must be able to do it.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The greatest of the United States’ homegrown religions – greater than Jehovah’s Witnesses, greater than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, greater even than Scientology – is the religion of technology.” –Nicholas Carr (Aeon: The World Wide Cage)
“Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins,” – Reid Hoffman (The Atlantic: The Seven Deadly Social Networks)
“Everyone knows that there is no technology for overcoming death. Death is left for God’s overcoming.” –Nicholas Wolterstorff
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
I Am for You by L. Anderson
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus by Singh
Take My Life, and Let it Be by Havergal/Herold
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
Give Me Jesus by Standard
House of God Forever by Foreman
Further Reading on Work & Vocation
A Woman’s Place by Katelyn Beaty
A Theology of Work by Darrell Cosden
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
Culture Care by Makoto Fujimura
Visions of Vocation by Steve Garber
Creating with God by Sarah Jobe
Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller & Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Called by Mark Labberton
Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose by Brian Mahan
When the Kings Come Marching In by Richard Mouw
Work Matters by Tom Nelson
Laborem Exercens (Through Work) by Pope John Paul II
Kingdom Calling by Amy Sherman
Consider Your Calling by Gordon T. Smith
Work in the Spirit by Miroslav Volf
Work: A Kingdom Perspective by Ben Witherington III
