Stress Out: “Take This Job and Love it”

Stress Out
“Take This Job and Love It”
11/16/25
Pastor Mark England

Mark 8:34-36 (CSB) Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it. ³⁶ For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life?

Four Different Groups of People Who Attend Church

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There’s a for you at church!

Acts 2:41 (CSB) So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

Baptism doesn’t you.
Baptism is when you go with your faith in Jesus who has saved you!

Salvations
Rededications
Baptisms

I have decided to follow the set by Christ.

I have decided to demonstrate my .

I have decided to declare my commitment .

Matthew 10:32-33 (CSB) “Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge me before others, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. ³³ But whoever denies me before others, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven.

The Second Greatest Stressor in Life is Stress.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 (CSB) Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind

of workers feel stress on the job.

have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress.

are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent.

felt like striking a coworker in the past year.

experienced some sort of threat or verbal intimidation in the past year.

Take This Job and It… Or Take This Job and It?

The promise of Scripture is that there is peace in the of… Not the of.

Colossians 3:1-2 (CSB) So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

The only solution to the things that stress you out is… your .

Colossians 3:12-14 (CSB) Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, ¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive. ¹⁴ Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

1. Discover my real and make a with my life.

A gives you something to live .
A gives you something to live .

Acts 20:22-24 (CSB) “And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there, ²³ except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me. ²⁴ But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

2. Realize my is my .

Acts 18:1-4 (CSB) After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth, ² where he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, ³ and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade, he stayed with them and worked. ⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

Find a and it.
Find a and it.

3. Work for , not .

Colossians 3:23-24 (CSB) Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, ²⁴ knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.

Today I will live as if this is the that will be .