“The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.” Ecclesiastes 4:5, ESV  

God never meant the Sabbath to be seven days a week. One is sufficient.  

“Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.” Ecclesiaste...

God commanded the Sabbath so that we would not turn hard work from a virtue to a vice. Mode...

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Genesis 2:15 (E...

Participating in fulfilling work was part of God’s original design and was a sinless activi...

“Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is ...

Motivation matters. For what and for whom do you toil, work, improve, and create? 

“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,” Acts 3:19, ESV 

Repentance is not punishment; it is an invitation back to God. 

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new ha...

When we are made new in Christ, our identity is not tied to our past, struggles, successes,...

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in eve...

Jesus experienced and understands temptation. Through Christ, we can faithfully obey God wh...

“Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall bec...

God created marriage and sexuality with purpose and beauty. Sin distorts God’s purpose for ...

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23, ESV  

The Gospel is level ground; every one of us is a sinner. Recognizing our own need for Jesus...