GENESIS 3 17 19 But to Adam he

GENESIS 3. 17 -19 But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it, ’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. -

GENESIS 3. 17 -19 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return. ” ---

DAVID MILLER Pastor Whether conscious or unintended, the pulpit all too frequently sends the signal that work in the church matters but work in the world does not… professionals often feel unsupported by the Sunday church in their Monday marketplace vocations ---

PHILLIP JENSEN Pastor & Author For the ancient Greeks, he might have been a philosopher-king. The ancient Romans might have looked for a just and noble statesman. But how does the God of the Hebrews come into the world? As a carpenter. ---

MARTIN LUTHER Priest, Theologian, Rebel All Christians are truly of the spiritual estate, and there is no difference among them except that of office… We are all consecrated priests. --

1 PETER 2. 9 -10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy. ---

COLOSSIANS 1. 15 -16 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him—all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers—all things were created through him and for him. --

TIM KELLER Pastor & Author Our work… [should be] reimagined as a mission or service to something beyond our own interests… Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person and… undermines society itself! ---