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Heigh-Ho ... It's Off To Work We Go

Pastor John Brunette

July 29, 2018

In the beginning God completed His work of creating and then He rested. Made in the image of God, mankind was also created to work (and rest). It doesn’t take long upon entering the workforce to figure out that something is broken and needs fixing in connection with how we view labor. What went wrong? Can our attitude about our jobs, especially if it’s mostly negative, actually change or be restored? Is there a new way to view work, looking through the eyes of God’s truth revealed to us in His Word? This is our focus today in worship and through the message.

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