Join us as we begin a new sermon series,
Creating Margins: Making Time for What’s Important in Life
According to Tim Chester, “Our Christian lives can be full of good intentions to do more for God, but time and again those good intentions are sapped by the pace of our lives.”
Think about it, even at our church, people who already have full diaries are often urged by preachers to pray more, to serve more, to care more, to spread the Good News and to campaign for justice. Paid employees in Australia work an average of 32 hours per week, sitting at about #25 on the list comparing hours worked in OECD countries; that’s well behind UK, USA, NZ and of course many Eastern European and South American workers. Yet we often hear workers complain, “I have so little time!” Owners/managers work much longer hours in Australia, and then there’s all our unpaid work to add in to the equation. Even our “time off” is often hard work – gym, transporting kids, shopping, travel to see family/friends, etc.
The Old Testament commended work (Prov. 6:6-11) and it commended rest (Exodus 20:8-11) but in the New Testament, all our activities, health and relationships are to have a new centre, Jesus Christ (Col. 3:17). So how shall we manage our busy lives? Our new sermon series is called Creating Margins and will help us to think about our time with a new sense of what’s really important in life.
Topics
23 April | The Tyranny of Busyness | Sermon | Sermon Notes | Balance Diagnostic Tool
30 April | Priorities Without Pride | Sermon| The Killer Ps
7 May | Reorienting Obligation | Sermon
14 May | Time to Serve Others| Sermon
21 May | Time for Family | Sermon
18 June | Time for Work | Sermon | Sermon Notes
25 June | Time for Rest | Sermon
2 July | Time for Friendship | Sermon
9 July | Time for Spiritual Discipline | Sermon
16 July | Time for Celebration
23 July | Time for Generosity
Resources
Crazy Busy by Kevin Deyoung
Margin by Richard Swenson
The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness by Tim Chester
First Things First by Stephen R Covey
Too Busy Not To Pray (and study guide) by Bill Hybels
The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
Spiritual Disciplines can help
Table of Spiritual Disciplines