Sermons - Faith Community Church

What about work?! Since the beginning of the year we have been laying a foundation that prepares us to reflect on the "rest of life. This week we turn our attention to "work." The average person will spend between 25-30% of their lives working. Yet in a 2 year old study salary.com says that about 75% of those working are dissatisfied and unfulfilled. So, what about work? What is work? How do we think about work? Most importantly what does the Bible say about work? Is it punishment for sin? This week we start our discussion as we begin at the Beginning in Genesis 1 and 2.

What about work?! Since the beginning of the year we have been laying a foundation that prepares us to reflect on the "rest of life. This week we turn our attention to "work." The average person will spend between 25-30% of their lives working. Yet in a 2 year old study salary.com says that about 75% of those working are dissatisfied and unfulfilled. So, what about work? What is work? How do we think about work? Most importantly what does the Bible say about work? Is it punishment for sin? This week we start our discussion as we begin at the Beginning in Genesis 1 and 2.

The dictionary defines "lifestyle" as a particular way of living. "Lifestyle" is the way a person lives or a group of people live – the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group. So the question is what lifestyle will I embrace that is consistent with my vision? Disciplines me for this vision? and Advances my aspirations? What will be my life-long lifestyle? These are the questions we are discussing this week.

If I possess a vision for my life (last week) what must I do to live my vision? This week Mark discusses how a singular vision of God's Dominion and Jesus' lordship unifies all of life – our work, our play, our friendships, our families.

Do I possess a singular vision that will ground me, define me, inspire me, and release me? If so… what is it? This is the question Mark discusses this week as we continue the series LIFE Expectancy.

Prayer is the recognition that God has invited us to a "lifelong meeting" with Him. But we will only accept this invitation if we understand what are God's motivations for interacting with us. This week Vince discusses how prayer – our lifelong meeting - is rooted in a trust that God desires to fulfill His promises in our lives.

Is it important for you to know God– God the Father? God the Son? God the Holy Spirit? Is so, then how will we learn? This week Mark discusses how we grow closer to God by reflecting on the Bible because if you want to know the living God then you will need to learn the living Word – the Bible.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed: "Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting—that is, of hopefully doing without—will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment. Those who do not know how it feels to struggle anxiously with the deepest questions of life, of their life, and to patiently look forward with anticipation until the truth is revealed, cannot even dream of the splendor of the moment in which clarity is illuminated." This week Vince discusses how "waiting is not simply "my waiting" -- waiting is relational because it means we share another's clock and another's pace. Waiting on God means that we share His clock and His pace... join us as we reflect on what this means for our lives.

This week's sermon: Researchers tell us that the average person will spend 2 years of his or her life waiting in line, 2 years playing telephone tag, and 10 months waiting in traffic. That is over 7 and a half years of waiting, at best doing nothing, or at worst experiencing great aggravation! The bottom line is that even in our fast-paced world, with postmodern conveniences, we are all waiting for something. However, as strange as it sounds, during the Advent season, we discover a purpose to our waiting. Let's visit about this!

Researchers tell us that the average person will spend 2 years of his or her life waiting in line, 2 years playing telephone tag, and 10 months  waiting in traffic.  That is over 7 and a half years of waiting, at best doing nothing, or at worst experiencing great aggravation! The bottom line is that even in our fast-paced world, with postmodern conveniences, we are all waiting for something. However, as strange as it sounds, during the Advent season, we discover a purpose to our waiting. Let's visit about this!