When everything around you feels temporary—aging bodies, dead-end jobs, small acts that seem to disappear—the easy answer is to treat life as a waiting room for heaven. That view can make our work, our grief, and our care for others feel pointless, and it squeezes meaning out of the here-and-now. This message names that tension head on and calls out the old idea that becoming “spiritual” means ditching the body.

Rooted in a close read of 1 Corinthians 15, the sermon argues that resurrection is not an escape but the beginning of God’s renewal of the whole world. The future God promises vindicates ordinary labors: praying, healing, building, loving—these are raw materials for a new creation. If death has been defeated in Christ, then our small, often unseen acts matter more than we think. Hear how the claim “your labor is not in vain” could reshape what you do today and the hope you carry into tomorrow.