Sermons on Haggai
Made In America – The Idol of Busyness
5Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 6You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 7“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that…
Haggai
This lesson is a part of our 2020 Summer Series: “Hindsight – Rediscovering the Message of the Prophets.”
The god Called Work
The country music band, Alabama, had it right way back in 1992 when they released the song “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why).” They diagnosed an idolatrous problem in are society 25 years ago and it’s the worship of a god called work. Work is not just what you do to receive an income; work is everything you do that keeps you busy. And, it is very easy for work to replace God as the most important thing…