The type of work most people loathe, and the experience doing it that changed my mind about ALL work.

With every rain storm and every sprinkler cycle, the water pooled. It sat there for hours, in the shade, not dissipating, just inviting insects and drowning the newly laid sod in the front yard.

A simple french drain was the answer. But simple does not always mean easy. This particular situation would require digging 40 feet of ditch, at least a foot deep at the beginning, with a few degrees of down slope across the span…all so the water would drain instead of pool.

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Sacrifice. Is there a contradiction about it in Scripture? What wisdom, if any, can be applied to work in the marketplace?

Yesterday we read Paul’s call in Romans 12.1, “…to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” Today we hit the topic of sacrifice again…this time from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 9. “As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him,”

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