Good Sermon On Work – Tim Keller

Keller makes an excellent contrast between our society’s view of work and the biblical model. We work not for money or for status or for ourselves (personal fulfillment). We work for God’s sake, for people’s sake, and for the work’s sake. The irony is that losing ourselves (working for God’s sake, not ours) is the path to true fulfillment (quietness, and true rest). Keller also explains how working to please God is very different from working to appease God. We don’t do things for God (i.e., to get things from him), but simply because we want to live in a way that is pleasing to Him (in response to the rest He has given us in Christ, and in the strength that He supplies). Check it out.
HT: Steve McCoy