By Denise Daniels and Mark D. Roberts, reprinted from Made to Flourish. Over the past three years, I (Denise) have been working on a research project called Faith at Work: An Empirical Study, which collected data from individuals across the United States. My colleagues and I wanted to understand how everyday people think about faith and work. We also sought to learn…
It’s my annual posting of my favorite song about Christ’s first advent, his second advent, and the transformation of our work now and always. Sing along!
Jubilee Professional is a half-day conference designed to help Christians of all vocations learn how to apply biblical truth to everyday, professional life. This event is produced by the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation. The theme for this year’s conference – the 9th annual – was Sabbath rest. The conference was hosted by emcees Jim Stout, vice president at Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation,…
(This song by Isaac Watts, originally written about the Second Coming, is one of my favorite Christmas carols for many reasons. One is its vision of the redemption of this creation by a new creation which will heal it, not simply replace it.)
1 Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King!
Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,
and heav’n and nature sing,
and heav’n and nature sing,
and heav’n, and heav’n and nature sing.
2 Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ,
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of His righteousness
and wonders of His love,
and wonders of His love,
and wonders, wonders of His love.
From the Theology of Work Project: We give because you first gave to us. Giving God, just as we love because you first loved us, we give because you first gave to us. Out of gratitude we bring gifts of money to be used for your kingdom work. With these gifts we also pledge to you our whole selves. We give…
We recently heard about this new worship resource from our friend Gordon Preece (thanks, Gordon!) For more information, watch the video below, and check out individual songs from the project, and previous music by the same artists, here.
Reprinted from the Center for Faith and Work at LeTourneau University. By Bill Peel My eyes were glued to the Weather Channel during the landfalls and aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma like many of you. And we were all so impressed with both the first responders who put their lives on the line as well as the volunteers who went…
Reprinted from Made to Flourish. While there is a growing movement of churches around the country working to better educate and equip their congregation members in the area of faith and work, it strikes me as a worship leader that we often overlook one of the most basic opportunities for formation in this area each week – that is, the…
Hopefully you checked out our post a few days ago with worship resources for Labor Day. Bookmark it for your planning next year too! It struck us that it would be good to collect actual examples of churches doing something to bless all vocations and consider the labor of workplace Christians. Theology of Work Project does some of that at…
Work-oriented worship songs collected by Made to Flourish Blessings on vocations from Made to Flourish Litany of Labor from an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor Litany for the Ministry of the Laity by Demi Prentiss and J. Fletcher Lowe Songs, prayers, hymns, commissioning services, sermon notes, and the entire book Work in Worship at the Theology of Work Project Prayers for…
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