Job 38 ‘If you could ask God one question, and you knew he would answer, what would you ask him?’ It’s fine to have questions for God, but we need to watch our attitude. God is not in the dock. If we try to put him there, we need to be ready for his questions back to us.
The crucifixion of Christ is great news for you! What Jesus said as he went through the immense suffering of the cross radically transforms our entire lives.
返番去神嘅身邊究竟係咩意思呢？點解我哋要咁做呢？當我哋返到佢身邊，佢又會點樣歡迎我哋呢？誠邀大家一齊嚟聽吓耶穌發人深省嘅答案！
Ephesians 6:1–9 The gospel transforms every area of our life, including our family and our work
John Young recently retired after 35 years at Pfizer. From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he led Pfizer’s COVID SWAT team tasked with overseeing the development of potential treatments and vaccines which ultimately led to the development of the first mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.
He will be sharing the difference his faith in Christ has made to his working life, and why Jesus is good news for you as well.
Ephesians 5:22–33 Marriage is to be a small beautiful picture of the gospel – Christ sacrificially loving his people, his bride submitting to him.
Job 34 ‘If God is good, why does he allow so much suffering in the world? And why did he allow this or that to happen to me?’ Doubts can start to creep in, and we wonder, ‘Maybe he’s not so good after all’. Given such doubts can invade the thinking of even the godliest of people, like Job, we need to listen carefully to what this chapter says about the goodness of God.
Job 31 Some people live to please others; some to please themselves; but the believer lives to please God. But what does such a faith-filled, God-fearing life look like? That is what we find out in this chapter. It points us to Jesus who lived this perfectly, but also challenges us to live as he did.
Job 30 Sometimes in life we can feel trapped – stuck in a difficult present. That’s where Job is in this chapter, mocked by others and feeling rejected by God. The Bible speaks of ‘the steadfastness of Job’. That is a quality we will need too in the Christian life.
How productive would you say you are? How good are you at managing your time? Do you wish you could devote more time to projects outside of your work? God gives us time and we have to decide how we use it. At our Faith in the Workplace session, we are going to see how a biblical perspective on productivity can help us with the very practical day-to-day demands of life.