Faithfully Working

We continue to look back at our time with Dr. Cory Willson and his book Work and Worship. Today Dr. Willson talks with a smaller group at Christ Church about how we integrate our work and our worship.

Cory is a Missiology professor and deeply interested in how God's people are formed for through theology and engagement with the Scriptures for a life of worship in God's world.

For more information on Dr. Cory Willson you can visit is faculty page at https://www.calvinseminary.edu/profile/cory-willson (Calvin Seminary.)

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On today’s episode we are joined by Dr. Cory Willson of Calvin Seminary in Grand Rapids Michigan. Cory is a Missiology professor and deeply interested in how God's people are formed for through theology and engagement with the Scriptures for a life of worship in God's world. This is our culminating event with Cory as we discuss a book he co-authored called Work and Worship. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

For more information on Dr. Cory Willson you can visit is faculty page at https://www.calvinseminary.edu/profile/cory-willson (Calvin Seminary.)

For more information you can check out our website http://christchurchgr.org/resources/faithfully-working/ (here). We have more resources, links to upcoming events, and more.

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On today’s episode we finish up our series walking through the book Work and Worship by Matthew Kaemingk and Cory Willson. Dan Churchwell leads us through the final section of Work and Worship, and highlights some of the questions the authors ask.

We are interested in hearing your feedback, questions and musings over this topic and book. There will be a chance to engage with Dr. Willson on February 19th and 20th, and some of your questions will help guide those discussions. Please submit your questions to either Dan ([email protected]) or to Addison ([email protected]).

Sign up for our upcoming WORK and WORSHIP discussion and presentation https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/workandworship (here). Dr. Willson will explore how the issues of faith and work can be reconciled through gathered worship. He will facilitate a discussion on the practical application of incorporating an appropriate theology of faith and work into a church’s time of corporate worship that emphasizes the value of each person’s work, speaks to the issues congregants face in the workplace, and equips each worker to practice their faith throughout the coming work week. We hope to see you there.

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On today’s episode we continue in season 2 of Faithfully Working Podcast with a class led by Dan Churchwell. Dan leads us through a section of Work and Worship, a book we are reading together at Christ Church. Follow along with us as we seek to understand our modern work in our modern church.

Sign up for our upcoming WORK and WORSHIP discussion and presentation https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/workandworship (here). Dr. Willson will explore how the issues of faith and work can be reconciled through gathered worship. He will facilitate a discussion on the practical application of incorporating an appropriate theology of faith and work into a church’s time of corporate worship that emphasizes the value of each person’s work, speaks to the issues congregants face in the workplace, and equips each worker to practice their faith throughout the coming work week. We hope to see you there.

For more information you can check out our website http://christchurchgr.org/resources/faithfully-working/ (here). We have more resources, links to upcoming events, and more.

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On today’s episode we continue in season 2 of Faithfully Working Podcast with a class led by Dan Churchwell. Dan leads us through the first section of Work and Worship, a book we are reading together at Christ Church. Follow along with us as we seek to understand our modern work in our modern church.

Sign up for our upcoming WORK and WORSHIP discussion and presentation https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/workandworship (here). Dr. Willson will explore how the issues of faith and work can be reconciled through gathered worship. He will facilitate a discussion on the practical application of incorporating an appropriate theology of faith and work into a church’s time of corporate worship that emphasizes the value of each person’s work, speaks to the issues congregants face in the workplace, and equips each worker to practice their faith throughout the coming work week. We hope to see you there.

For more information you can check out our website http://christchurchgr.org/resources/faithfully-working/ (here). We have more resources, links to upcoming events, and more.

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On today’s episode we start season 2 of Faithfully Working Podcast with an interview between Dr. Cory Willson and Dan Churchwell. Cory is the co-author of Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy and a professor at Calvin Seminary here in Grand Rapids Michigan. Dan and Cory discuss a bit of Cory’s heart behind the book as well as some of the big picture topics that it addresses along the way.

Sign up for our upcoming WORK and WORSHIP discussion and presentation https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/workandworship (here). Dr. Willson will explore how the issues of faith and work can be reconciled through gathered worship. He will facilitate a discussion on the practical application of incorporating an appropriate theology of faith and work into a church’s time of corporate worship that emphasizes the value of each person’s work, speaks to the issues congregants face in the workplace, and equips each worker to practice their faith throughout the coming work week. We hope to see you there.

For more information you can check out our website http://christchurchgr.org/resources/faithfully-working/ (here). We have more resources, links to upcoming events, and more.

You can subscribe to our podcast anywhere you get your podcasts. Please consider leaving us a rating and review, it really helps us out.

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Faithfully Working Lunch - Leadership and Christianity. Join us for a discussion of leadership for all types and positions of work. Dan Churchwell will present on defining types of leaders and what Christianity uniquely brings to the conversation of leadership. This will be followed by a conversation with new Faithfully Working team member Janice Koopman, on her experience as a leader in formal and informal ways. You can sign up https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/fwlunchleadership (here).

On this episode of Faithfully Working host Addison Hawkins continues in our series Genesis and Work. Noah's story is a familiar one. A story that has the gospel right at the heart. But what can we learn about Noah's call and his work on the arc that has stood the test of time? What is it about God's faithfulness that we need to tap into today in our modern work environments. Pastor Addison talks through some of these insights and more. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Quotes from the episode:

“We can decide to live in response to the abundance of God and not under the dictatorship of our own poor needs.” - Eugene Peterson, https://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Direction-Bible-Signature-Studies/dp/0830848444/ref=sr_1_4?crid=LQX62H9R50NGandkeywords=a+long+obedience+in+the+same+directionandqid=1638796712andsprefix=a+long+ob%2Caps%2C181andsr=8-4 (A Long Obedience in the Same Direction)

For more information you can check out our website http://christchurchgr.org/resources/faithfully-working/ (here). We have more resources, links to upcoming events, and more.

You can subscribe to our podcast anywhere you get your podcasts. Please consider leaving us a rating and review, it really helps us out.

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Faithfully Working Lunch - Leadership and Christianity. Join us for a discussion of leadership for all types and positions of work. Dan Churchwell will present on defining types of leaders and what Christianity uniquely brings to the conversation of leadership. This will be followed by a conversation with new Faithfully Working team member Janice Koopman, on her experience as a leader in formal and informal ways. You can sign up https://christchurchgr.breezechms.com/form/fwlunchleadership (here).

On this episode of Faithfully Working host Addison Hawkins continues in our series Genesis and Work. On often overlooked part of chapter 4, verses 20-22 highlight not only the depth and destruction of sin, but also the importance of working unto the Lord and following Jesus with our everything.

Bible Passages from the episode:

Psa. 57:8 Awake, my glory!2 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn! Psa. 71:22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O mHoly One of Israel. Psa. 81:2 Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.

Quotes from the episode:

Genesis by John Calvin "Moses, however, expressly celebrates the remaining benediction of God on [Cain's family], which otherwise would have been deemed void and barren of all good. Let us then know, that the sons of Cain, though deprived of the Spirit of regeneration, were yet endued with gifts of no despicable kind; just as the experience of all ages teaches us how widely the rays of divine light have shone on unbelieving nations, for the benefit of the present life; and we see, at the present time, that the excellent gifts of the Spirit are diffused through the whole human race."

Tyndale Commenatry on Genesis by Derek Kidner "A biased account would have ascribed nothing good to Cain. The truth is more complex: God was to make much use of Cainite techniques for his people, from the semi-nomadic discipline itself to the civilized arts and crafts (e.g. Exod. 35:35).6 The phrase he was the father of all such acknowledges the debt and prepares us to accept for ourselves a similar indebtedness to secular enterprise; for the Bible nowhere teaches that the godly should have all the gifts."

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This week on the Faithfully Working podcast Addison continues in Genesis and Work. What does God's word have to say about work, calling and vocation? Turns out, a lot.

God had two different responses for Cain and Abel when it came to the sacrifices they offered. For Cain it was rejected, but for Abel it was accepted. Why might that be? What sort of principle can we learn from the fact that God accepted Abel's sacrifice? Join us in Genesis 4: 1-7 to find out more.

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This week on the Faithfully Working podcast Addison continues in Genesis and Work. What does God's word have to say about work, calling and vocation? Turns out, a lot.

Our lives are filled with longings. Longings for restored relationships or satisfaction and contentment in our current situations. Longing for a cured disease or illness. A longing for things to be made right again. Have you ever wondered what it was like for Adam and Eve to walk out of the Garden of Eden? To look back over their shoulders and see a place that they once lived and had fullness of life with God, but now are vanished from? My guess is they felt a sense of longing to return. How does that interact with our working lives? Let's look at Genesis 3: 22-24 to find out more.

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Quotes from the episode:

"In Eden in their sinless state, Adam and Eve rightly anticipated an eternity of life with God, who is the source of life. Having sinned, they are now driven out into the world to earn their living by the sweat of their brow, bear children in pain, and at last die and return to the dust from which they were made." (James Montgomery Boice)

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, it's gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Westminster Shorter Catechism Question and Answer 1

Q: What is the chief end of man?

A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

Further Scripture Reading:

1 Corinthians 10:31. So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 11:36. For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen

Psalm 73:24-26. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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