1. Work Matters

2. 8,760 hours in a year Sleep = 2,555 This leaves 6,205 waking hours Average worker in US spends 2,020 of these hours working

3. Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger. Proverbs 19:15

4. The modern work doctrine: Job = how you make money.

5. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”

6. Frederick Buechner “The place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need”

7. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”

8. John 5:17 Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

9. Genesis 2:7 “Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground”

10. Mark 6:3 “Isn’t this the carpenter?”

11. 1 Corinthians 3:9 “we are God’s co-workers”

12. Genesis 2:15 … Adam and Eve were to “work and keep” the Garden of Eden

13. Genesis 3:16: “I will make them very severe” Genesis 3:17: “painful toil”

14. Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse …”

15. Isaiah 2 … “they shall beat their swords into plowshares”

16. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”

17. Matthew 25 … “the sheep and the goats”

18. Hebrews 13:2 “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”

19. Voco = “to call, calling”

20. Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

21. Matthew 11:29-30 “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

22. Ecclesiastes 5:12 “Sweet is the sleep of a laborer”