In a couple of weeks, I am preaching about work and the sluggard in our series from Proverbs, "Words to Live By." One of the questions I have on my mind as I prepare is: what are some of your biggest challenges as a follower of Christ with your work?
Less Than Living
So often the lives we lead in our society are so much less than life. Our frenzied busyness has become what we now call life. We are hurried to exhaustion. We work jobs we hate to buy things we don’t need so we can amuse ourselves with things we don’t really enjoy in the end. …
Struggling with Sabbath
We started a new series at The Ave spiritual called "Takin' It Easy." Last week, I was talking about one of the most challenging concepts in the Bible: Sabbath. Now, when I think of the word Sabbath, I tend to think of something legalistic and rigid or something just plain out of touch with my …
Matthew Erickson 