God sets limits to our work. It's up to us to discern those limits and live within them.
There are many ways to honor—or dishonor—your father and mother. In Jesus’ day, the Pharisees wanted to restrict this to speaking well...
The workplace is one of the most common settings for adultery, not necessarily because adultery occurs in the workplace itself, but because...
The fifth commandment says that we must respect the most basic authority among human beings, that of parents for children. To put...
The final psalm returns to music as our response to God’s “mighty deeds”, upon which all our activity and work are founded. Praise God with trumpets, lutes, harps, tambourines, strings, pipe, cymbals—both clanging...
If work has no single, unchanging purpose, perhaps it has a myriad of purposes, each meaningful in its own time. The Teacher explores this in the famous chapter beginning, “For everything there is...
The Song begins with the woman speaking of her love for her man and, in the course of this, she speaks of...
Long before Jeremiah lived, God declared that work is good for people (Genesis 1-2). As we have noted elsewhere, Jeremiah’s method was...
Jesus’ encounter with a rich man who asks “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” constitutes one of the few passages in Mark that speaks directly to economic activity. The man’s question...