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Stone Choir

God’s Gifts, Man’s Duties

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      Whether our gifts are many or few, great or small, God has most assuredly prepared beforehand opportunities for us to use those gifts to serve our neighbors. We, in fact, have a duty to use what God has given us for the good of our neighbor. All that we have we hold in trust as stewards, for all comes from God and all belongs to God.

      It is through our good works that we demonstrate, both to ourselves and to the world, that we have a living faith. There are no hard and fast rules or mathematical formulae to determine precisely what one should do with what one has been given — these are matters of wisdom. But we know the basics: Faithfully pursue your work, come to the aid of family and neighbor, and render good works when and where God provides you the opportunity.

      The Christian life is not found in pilgrimages or hair shirts or in putting crosses on every surface in one’s home. The faithful Christian baker makes good bread; the faithful Christian shoemaker makes good shoes; the faithful Christian woman keeps a good home; a faithful Christian man diligently pursues his calling — whatever it may be. These are not matters over which to be anxious or about which to fret or worry; God knows what we need and he knows what our neighbor needs, and He has so ordered things that our neighbor can aid us and we can aid him. The Christian life is lived out in many thousands of small interactions, all undertaken with thanks for the good gifts, all of which flow from God.

      »17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.«
      — James 1:17 (ESV)

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      Show Notes

      • Previous episodes:
      • Some recommended Scripture passages:
        • Matthew 6:25–34
        • Matthew 25:1–13
        • Romans 12:3–13
        • Romans 14:1–12
        • 1 Corinthians 4:2
        • 1 Corinthians 12:1–11
        • 1 Corinthians 15:58
        • Ephesians 2:10
        • Colossians 3:18–4:1
        • 1 Peter 4:7–11
        • James 1:16–18
        • Luke 12:35–48
        • Luke 16:1–13
        • Proverbs 3:27–28
        • Proverbs 16:3
        • Proverbs 22:29
        • Ecclesiastes 9:9–10

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Quire podcast.

      0:39.3

      I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.3

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:43.3

      On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be discussing talents and gifts and our duties and Thanksgiving.

      0:50.3

      As we're recording this the week of Thanksgiving. We thought that it'd be a nice

      0:54.6

      way to tie all those things together. We had a question about one of them, and we realized that

      0:59.1

      the concept of having duties to do things, being thankful for our gifts and for the opportunity

      1:06.6

      to be a benefit to others, all kind of ties together nicely and in a timely fashion.

      1:12.4

      Today's going to be hopefully a speed run episode. If we succeed in what we're hoping to do,

      1:17.2

      this will only be about an hour long. Of course, we do us all in one shot. So as you look at

      1:22.3

      the actual runtime, you will see how wildly wrong we were. I think it'll be pretty short.

      1:29.3

      Today, we want to especially welcome all the new folks from the P. Kinyana show audience who've joined us recently.

      1:34.7

      Corey and I appeared on that show last week, and that was a lot of fun. It's ironic that the best

      1:42.3

      introductions to Stone Choir have not been on Stone Choir.

      1:46.6

      They've been shows that we did with Adam on the 20th century and with Pete on his own show.

      1:52.5

      I'm thankful for folks who are discovering us that way because it kind of gives you the lay the land.

      1:58.0

      We did an episode early on, or we talked about why we're Lutheran, and that's kind of

      2:02.4

      part of the explanation for why we did the show. There's a lot more to that episode than that.

      2:07.6

      As I mentioned in the episode last week that we did with Pete, if you're a new listener, we

      2:13.9

      really highly recommend that you go back to the beginning. The episodes we do are not

      2:18.5

      ripped from the headlines, so they will generally almost never age on you. You can go back

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