Simple Life Sermon Series

3. Psalm 90:12
So teach us to count our days that we
may gain a wise heart.

5. • Before Google Instant, the typical searcher took
more than 9 seconds to enter a search term,
and we saw many examples of searches that
took 30-90 seconds to type.
• Using Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per
search.
• If everyone uses Google Instant globally, we
estimate this will save more than 3.5 billion
seconds a day. That’s 11 hours saved every
second.

7. What Time-Saving Invention Would
You Most Like to See?
• “A clothes-folding machine.”
• “A DVR that you can program with your
voice.”
• “A drain in the middle of my house so I
could just hose this place down!”
• “A vacuum that will pick up large items.”
• “A Facebook alarm that goes off if you’ve
been on the site for way too long.”

8. What Is the Weirdest Thing You’ve Eaten
for Dinner in the Name of Saving Time?
• “A whole bag of beef jerky.”
• “Salami wrapped in a tortilla.”
• “A beer and a pudding cup.”
• “A honey bun and a piece of sausage.”
• “One bag of microwave popcorn and two
peanut butter cups.”

9. What Is the Most Embarrassing Thing
You’ve Done for the Sake of Speed?
• “Taken a ‘shower’ with wet wipes.”
• “Sent the kids to school in their pajamas
(under a coat of course).”
• “Duct-taped the hem of my work pants.”
• “Ironed only the parts of my clothing that
could be seen.”

10. What Is the Most Embarrassing Thing
You’ve Done for the Sake of Speed?
• “Painted only the toenails that would
show through my peep-toe shoes.”
• “Carried the kids to the car with a
blanket over their (three) heads so I
didn’t have to put coats and mittens on
all of them.”
• “Exercised the dogs in the backyard with
a laser pointer instead of walking them.”

11. What Is the Most Embarrassing Thing
You’ve Done for the Sake of Speed?
• “Skipped changing the sheets when my
daughter ‘lightly’ wet the bed.”
• “Stapled my daughter’s Girl Scouts
patches to her vest because I didn’t have
time to sew them before the meeting.”
• “I knowingly dropped my son off at day
care without shoes and acted shocked by
his shoelessness at pickup.”

12. Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, and
keep it holy. 9For six days you shall
labor and do all your work. 10But the
seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD
your God; you shall not do any work—
you, your son or your daughter, your
male or female slave, your livestock, or
the alien resident in your towns.

13. 11For in six days the LORD made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, but rested the seventh day;
therefore the LORD blessed the
sabbath day and consecrated it.

14. Mark 2
23 One sabbath he was going through
the cornfields; and as they made their
way his disciples began to pluck heads
of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him,
‘Look, why are they doing what is not
lawful on the sabbath?’… 27Then he
said to them, ‘The sabbath was made
for humankind, and not humankind
for the Sabbath.”

15. “To the biblical mind…the Sabbath as a
day of rest, as a day of abstaining from
toil, is not for the purpose of recovering
one’s lost strength and becoming fit for
the forthcoming labor. The Sabbath is a
day for the sake of life… The Sabbath is
not for the sake of the weekdays; the
weekdays are for the sake of the
Sabbath.”
Abraham Heschel, Sabbath

16. Romans 14:5
Some judge one day to be better than
another, while others judge all days to
be alike. Let all be fully convinced in
their own minds.

17. Mark 1
32 That evening, at sunset, they
brought to him all who were sick or
possessed with demons. 33And the
whole city was gathered around the
door. 34And he cured many who were
sick with various diseases, and cast
out many demons; and he would not
permit the demons to speak, because
they knew him.

18. Mark 1
35 In the morning, while it was still
very dark, he got up and went out to a
deserted place, and there he prayed.
36And Simon and his companions
hunted for him. 37When they found
him, they said to him, ‘Everyone is
searching for you.’

19. Mark 6
30 The apostles gathered around
Jesus, and told him all that they had
done and taught. 31He said to them,
‘Come away to a deserted place all by
yourselves and rest a while.’ For many
were coming and going, and they had
no leisure even to eat.”

21. All Saints
Remembrance