Good Sunday morning this is Mike Sereg the voice of Vital Ministries and it is good to be with you on this another beautiful Sunday we want to thank you for listening to KBOE 104.9 FM on your radio dial you might be traveling down the highway today. You have tuned us and we just want to thank you so much for participating and being part of this, this ministry maybe you’re driving on your way to church. Thank you for just being with us today and also to maybe you’re at home and you always see your faithfully turning us on. We just want to say a big thank you for letting us share a part of your Sunday.

But we before we jump into our teaching series this morning, we just have a few things that we want to bring to your attention on August 10 we’re going to have donuts and Devos again it’s going to be our last one we’ve done it this summer an opportunity for men we get together at seven o’clock here in Oskaloosa on a Saturday morning again August 10 and it’s at the Vital Ministries building and we have donuts the Jaarsma stuff it’s all good and then also to we’ll have a devotional together what a great time to start on your on your Saturday again that will be our last one because we will be starting back in for Vital Men back in September so we’re looking forward to that and also to with that September 8 we have another Vital Gathering coming up and you won’t want to miss this this is a Debbie’s Celebration barn just south here in Oskaloosa it’s on a Sunday evening from five to seven What a great opportunity to bring family will have food there for you will have a music last time we had a special group come in they did a knockout wonderful job a worshipful time that we can come and praise God and for who He is and then also too will have a teaching will have after that a little bit more singing and coffee and lemonade and coffee time. How often do you really get a chance to come and enjoy some fellowship together where you can come out and hang out and have just a good time and visit back and forth and chatting with each other. I am so looking forward to that event that’s coming up on on September eight so you won’t want to miss that at all.

But we’re we’re beginning as we started today just something new and and we’re beginning a new teaching series today called Work. We all do it we work away our lives to attain something don’t we. Matter of fact, it says a lot of Americans are our work. We work so much that we have become literally workaholics from sunup to sundown we work. I tell you what that depicts what I would call a lot of the Iowa generation the Iowa folks here in our great state love to work and we’re thankful that we are in a what I call a get er done state.

This past week, I had my 40th class reunion. Yes, folks, I am getting older, and I graduated in high school in 1979. The last year, last few years, the baby boomers, the generation from 1946 to 1964. My generation represents 29% of the population in America, that’s amazing to me, the generation that worked and achieve and I think that would kind of depict that this a baby boomer generation. I have a good friend of mine who who I graduated with later, who became a director of a hospital and we talked about what it meant to work in our lifetime as we as we start to focus down as is as we start to end the career start to change and, and look differently. And he looked at me and said Mike, I’ve worked 65 plus hours weekly. And what I was was salary then I gained nothing from working more hours. Matter of fact, I he said I felt like I’ve just simply have worked my life away. And I and I and that is true. So often as we as we work it becomes so much of our lives that life passes by so quickly. But he was asking me a question. He said that I pretty much that he pretty much did the same thing.