“While others might be hungering and thirsting for more money, more status, and more sexual fulfillment, we’ll be thirsting for righteousness. We’ll be people who say, ‘I’m sorry.’ We’ll be people who say, ‘I forgive you.’ We’ll be people who know we make mistakes, so admit them, and are …
Exodus 23:16
You shall observe the festival of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the festival of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. Exodus 23:16 NRSV …
Isaiah 18:5 NRSV
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away. Isaiah 18:5 NRSV …
Miroslav Volf
"Because the whole creation is the Spirit's sphere of operation, the Spirit is not only the Spirit of religious experience but also the Spirit of worldly engagement. For this reason it is not at all strange to connect the Spirit of God with mundane work." Dr. Miroslav Volf – Henry B. Wright …
Amos 7:14
Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, Amos 7:14 NRSV …
Genesis 13:7
and there was strife between the herders of Abram's livestock and the herders of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land. Genesis 13:7 NRSV …
Dr. R. Paul Stevens
"Good work is communal. It is a means of building community and serving our neighbors. We are called to work together, in partnership. Work and its organizations impact social structures and the social order. We become who we are in relationship." Dr. R. Paul Stevens – former David J. Brown Family …
Matthew 13:30
Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’” Matthew 13:30 NRSV …
Genesis 30:14
In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." Genesis 30:14 NRSV …
Isaiah 28:24
Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground? Isaiah 28:24 NRSV …