9/18/2016
Matthew 25:14-30
Alexandra Harper
Alexandra Harper is the Creative Director and Founder of Culture Care RDU. A Ministry of Artists in Christian Testimony International, Culture Care works to equip the local church to display Christ in culture through creation, creativity & artistry. She holds degrees from Liberty University, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things. That is the thundering assertion with which we start; that the great fundamental quality that makes God, and us with him, what we are is creative activity…’In the beginning God created from everlasting to everlasting…’ By implication, man is most god-like and most himself when he is occupied in creation.” –Dorothy Sayers (Letters to a Diminished Church)
“Come and look: many things begin with seeing in this world of ours.” –Lilias Trotter (Many Beautiful Things)
“This dandelion has long ago surrendered its golden petals, and has reached its crowning stage of dying – the delicate seed-globe must break up now – it gives and gives till it has nothing left.” –Lilias Trotter
“There comes a time in the late afternoon, when the children tire of their games. It is then that they turn to torturing the cat.” –GK Chesterton
“Take the very hardest thing in your life, the place of outward and inward and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot, just there he can bring your soul into blossom.” –Lilias Trotter
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
In Feast or Fallow by McCracken
What a Friend We Have in Jesus by Scriven/Converse
Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord by Harris/Crawford
Psalm 126 by Wardell
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus by Limmel
Further Reading on Work & Vocation
A Woman’s Place by Katelyn Beaty
A Theology of Work by Darrell Cosden
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
Culture Care by Makoto Fujimura
Visions of Vocation by Steve Garber
Creating with God by Sarah Jobe
Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller & Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Called by Mark Labberton
Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose by Brian Mahan
When the Kings Come Marching In by Richard Mouw
Work Matters by Tom Nelson
Laborem Exercens (Through Work) by Pope John Paul II
Kingdom Calling by Amy Sherman
Consider Your Calling by Gordon T. Smith
Work in the Spirit by Miroslav Volf
Work: A Kingdom Perspective by Ben Witherington III
