Christ City Cast

What would change tomorrow if you forgot about serving others — and simply served the work?
In Week 5 of our post-Easter series, we learn that for work to become a delight and fulfillment, it has to become something we submit to — not a means of getting something, but the medium through which we offer our whole selves to God. And in one of the most counterintuitive moves in the series: serving the work — not the people — is actu...

What if the good life isn't getting out of work — but getting the good out of work?

A common narrative today is one that says the good life is what waits on the other side of our labor, that progress always means doing less, working less, and somehow still getting more, and that the human ideal is a consumer at leisure. It's a compelling story. And it's one most of us have swallowed whole. But is this really what it mean...

Sabbath isn't a reward for a productive week. It's a declaration that you're already free.

In week three of Get(ing) Out of Work, we turn to Deuteronomy 5 — where Moses restates the Sabbath command and adds something Exodus doesn't: a reason. Not creation, but liberation. God commands rest because he already got you out. To Sabbath is to remember who freed you, and to refuse — again — the identity of a slave. Sabbath...

Work isn't what's broken. We are. And that changes everything about how we show up on Monday.

Tracing the Genesis narrative through the Fall, Noah, and the Noahic covenant, Pastor Jeremy Pace shows that the pain and struggle we experience in work stem from twisted human hearts, not from work itself. Work is our good, not merely a means to good things — it is our specific human contribution to God's ongoing creation and to the commo...

Genesis 2:15; 3:17-19; 5:28-29

Sermon Notes and Liturgy

From the series Get(ing) Out of Work 

Sunday April 12th, 2026

We take a month or so every year to consider, together, the rhythm of creation according to God's design: Sabbath & Work

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