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Hope for your work – a sermon from Tim Keller

Listen to an excellent sermon from Tim Keller here. ?The blurb on the website summarises the sermon as follows:

Many people think that if you believe in a literal second coming of Christ, then you won?t care about improving this world at all. Yet, the Bible teaches the exact opposite. It is because Christians believe in a coming age without sin and injustice that they eagerly work in this world to bring about glimpses of the world to come. This belief influences everything a Christian does?including their work. Christians must not segregate their faith from their work, but must wrestle with the challenge of glorifying God in their vocations.

Should following Jesus make a difference in the workplace?

This is the question sitting behind these two statements that we ask people to respond to in our on-line Worker Survey (if you have not participated and would like to, click here):?

  • ‘I intentionally behave differently to my colleagues at work because I am a Christian’
  • ‘I intentionally approach my work differently to my colleagues because I am a Christian’

In other words, does following Jesus impact on how we think?about work and the way we?do?work??Here’s the results from our first 47 participants: [Read more…] about Should following Jesus make a difference in the workplace?

A biblical perspective on risk: Tim Keller

Tim Keller gives a biblical perspective of risk at the EI Forum in 2013.? He is speaking at a conference for entrepreneurs and, while risk is not specifically mentioned in the Bible, he argues that two related and key concepts are:

  • Fear (Psalm 3:1-6): Relocate your identity in God’s glory to deal with fear.? When you do, there will be no risk to your real assets, the things that matter.
  • Control (James 4:13-17): Humble yourself before God and learn to trust in God’s providence – we live in a culture that tells us we can control things but the Bible tells us cannot.

Three messages for Christians:

  1. Humble yourself before God and see that you are not in control
  2. Though you are in the hands of God, what you do matters: We are not fatalistic. We are not too passive or too scared (see Paul’s actions in Acts 27 when faced with shipwreck!)
  3. The One who is in control died for you!

?Murray Wright – 10 April 2014

Redefining Work – Tim Keller

After briefly outlining the theological context (creation, fall, redemption and restoration), Tim?Keller discusses 5 ways that your faith can influence and shape your work in this video from the 2013 Gospel Coalition Conference (27:42).

In summary:

  1. Faith gives you an inner ballast without which work could destroy you – in an individualistic western culture, work becomes an end in itself and creates our identity. ?”If you are successful it goes to your head; if you are a failure it goes to your heart.” ?Your identity needs to be based on something ?other than your performance. [Read more…] about Redefining Work – Tim Keller