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Webinar with Karen Kaigler-Walker, PhD, hosted by Mark Roberts. This webinar features a conversation with Karen Kaigler-Walker, PhD, author of Aging in Spirit: A Woman’s Journey to God. Karen focuses on the particular needs and life experiences of...

Patience is not one of my strengths. Impatience is. Or, I suppose I might more accurately say impatience is one of my weaknesses.

So, no matter how you fulfill Ephesians 4:28, the main point is the same. Your work enables you to “share with those in need.” What I find fascinating about this reason for work is that Paul seems to assume that workers will share with the needy.

The New Testament offers us freedom when it comes to things like the foods we eat or the days set apart for rest. Yet this freedom is not freedom from rest . . . regular, intentional, delightful, restorative, worshipful rest. God created us as beings who need rest. God’s directives in Scripture call us to rest. And God’s own example dramatically underscores these instructions. Rest is a gift from God for our well-being as well as God’s glory. 

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!” -Luke 2:14

Written by Allison Quient. Categories include De Pree Journal.

“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). But when we work for God’s glory, when we dedicate our work to God, when we allow God to work in and through us by the Spirit, then “in the Lord your labor is not in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:58).

In Advent, we remember how God’s ancient promises were fulfilled in the events of Jesus’s life.