18th of November--Father Nissen's sermon

The text for today comes from the reading from the Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, chapter 3, verses 6 through 13.

St. Paul talks about the value of work. He mentions that some believers in Thessalonica were lazy. They did not have the right balance between work and worship. A thought in all of this: we, too, must balance our work and our family lives. We as Americans work hard; the average American has only 13 days of holidays or paid vacation each year. We still need to take care of ourselves. Some people have taken Paul's injunction to work to degenerate into a duty to work all the time. We must first live faith-filled lives, and then we will have the insight to work even better. We must be open to change to to technology, because God is the God of the future and change.