Work is a blessing, not a curse.Thank God it’s Monday! Bridge the Sunday gap to Monday.Bridge the Sacred and Secular divide.Work is a ministry, not just a job.Work as Worship – work is more than a paycheck.Receive blessings from God and be a blessing at work.Keep an empty seat for Jesus at work – a reminder to invite Jesus to intervene, integrate our faith at work.Take Jesus to work – don’t leave Jesus at home. Don’t lock Jesus outside of your office.Embrace and enjoy our work with God’s 5P blessings – His Presence, Power, Promises, Provisions, Pleasant surprises.
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Theology of Work: Work Through the Whole Bible Devotional

Devotional Materials / Theology of Work Project

25: The brokenness of the world (Lamentations 3:31–33, 39–41)

After a two-year siege, the Babylonians captured Jerusalem, tore down its walls, looted and destroyed...

26: Working justly (Ezekiel 18:5–9)

Ezekiel 18:5-9 notes a range of actions, both righteous and wicked. These actions become the...

27: Staying close to God in non-Christian settings (Daniel 1:8-14)

Scripture Reading: Daniel 1:8-14 The Book of Daniel begins with a disaster that has ended the Jewish...

28: Responding to workplace corruption (Hosea 4:1–3)

God puts the blame for Israel’s corruption on the people as a whole. To dramatize...

29: Choose work that serves God (Joel 2:28–29)

As the prophets in the Bible see it, justice is not merely a secular issue...

30: Justice at work (Amos 8:4–5; 5:24)

Justice in work is not only an individual matter. People have a responsibility to make...

31: God works with us to change the world for better (Obadiah 12, 21)

The same God who demands change also promises to make change possible. The Minor Prophets...

32: Responding to God’s call (Jonah 4:1-11)

The Book of Jonah is an outlier among the twelve prophets. It does not take...

33: Leadership matters (Micah 2:1–2)

Despite God’s intentions, work is subjected to human sin. The most egregious case is work...

34: Responding to disaster (Nahum 1:3, 12)

Nahum’s chief contribution to the prophetic books is to make it clear that the political...

35: Idolatry at work (Habakkuk 2:6–20)

Faithfulness is not a superficial matter of uttering praises to God while we work. It...

36: Faithfulness at work (Zephaniah 2:3)

During the exile, people began to re-learn how to work in faithful service to God...

37: Invest in community (Haggai 1:3-15)

One of the challenges we face in work is the temptation to put self and...

38: Work and the environment (Zechariah 7:8–14)

Haggai connects the economic and social well-being of the people with the state of the...

39: Sin and the promise of restoration (Malachi 3)

Even in times of restoration, human sin is never far away. Malachi, the third of...

40: Invest in God’s kingdom through your work (Matthew 25:14-30)

One of Jesus’ most significant parables regarding work is set in the context of investments...

42: The importance of generosity (Luke 12:30–34)

Market economies are predicated upon the generation, exchange and accumulation of privately owned wealth. This...

43: Your work matters to God (John 1:1–5,14)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...

44: Breaking the bonds of exploitation (Acts 16:16-19)

In Philippi, Paul and Silas encounter a girl with a spirit of divination. In the...

45: Serving others at work (Romans 12:1–3)

To bring the communal aspect of salvation to life means a reorientation of our minds...

46: The eternal value of work (1 Corinthians 3:11–15)

Paul introduces the metaphor of a building under construction in order to make a new...

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