Resources Guide: Balance of Work and Family

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Number 9: Balance of Work and Family
"The rising pressure to invest more of one's energy in work at the expense of family."

This resources guide is a starting point for assisting your family, church, or other group in gaining a Biblical view of Balancing Work and Family. Use these resources as a means of furthering your own understanding or to prompt ideas for ministry efforts to address the issue.

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Sermons from LifeWay.com

"Making Your Home a Field of Dreams" and
"Homerun for the Home" Sermon Series
In these two series Steve Andrews, Sr. Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Rome, Georgia, used his experience as a little league baseball coach and dad to develop two creative sermon series around a "baseball" theme to help build up families in your church.

Selected Resources

	Men's Fraternity: The Quest for Authentic Manhood DVD Pack LifeWay Church Resources \| 1/4/2005 \| Media: DVD Imagine the transforming power of men coming together within your church to honestly examine their lives and take the courageous steps necessary to embrace authentic biblical manhood.
	Living with Less Broadman & Holman \| 1/1/2006 \| Media: Paperback Our Price: $12.99 Mark Tabb won't ignore the facts about the hectic pace of modern life that we are, ironically, often too tired to acknowledge and change.
	Men's Fraternity: Winning at Work & Home - Viewer Guide LifeWay Church Resources \| 1/15/2006 \| Media: Paperback Our Price: $9.95 Challenging men to step forward, meet their responsibilities, and establish their manhood, Authentic Manhood, Winning at Work & Home focuses on the chief responsibilities men have--as husbands, fathers, and breadwinners. The study presents 2 mirrors to help men evaluate how they are doing in life: the mirror of work and career, and the mirror of home and family.
	Men at Work: Life Beyond the Office Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Author: James E. Dittes \| Price: $14.95 Men need help defining the proper place of work in life and recognizing their unhealthy dependencies to work. More than just a how-to book to overcome workaholism, Dittes gives spiritual support for men to reclaim the rest of life's possibilities.
	Time for a Checkup: Wholeness (Becoming a Disciple Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Paperback \| Our Price: $6.99 People seeking physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness spend billions of dollars each year in their search. We are a people seeking purpose, healing, and wholeness. True wholeness is elusive, but it can be found. Jesus offers wholeness of our bodies, our minds, and our spirits. In a world that if frail, fractured, and frazzled ... this truly is good news!
	A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Overloaded Lives Swenson, Richard A. \| Navpress Publishing Group \| 2003 \| $16.99 Expanding on principles from Dr. Richard Swenson's best-selling books Margin and The Overload Syndrome, this book consists of 180 daily readings to help restore balance to hectic, modern lives. Each reading serves as a practical assignment--a helpful 'prescription'--to eliminate unneeded frustrations and start winning the war with our time.
	Intentional Choices Intentional Choices - Member (Life Connections Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Media: Paperback \| $6.99 This study will teach you how to find peace in a complex and difficult world. It will deepen your walk with Christ as your group discovers together how stress can draw you closer to one another and to the Lord.
	Keeping Your Cool (Growing in Christ Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Media: Paperback \| $6.99 The stimulating six books in the "Growing in Christ Series" from Serendipity House will help anyone from the seeker to the mature believer discover how God works in their world and lives. These innovative and thought-provoking studies will compel your group to interact honestly and openly while creating an environment of laughter, connectedness, and anticipation. This study is excellent for new groups.

Sermons and Slides - SermonCentral.com

Balance as a Lifestyle (sermon)

Balance (sermon)

Husbands and Wives (slide)

Husbands (slide)

Home Makeover (slide)

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You Reap What You Sow (3:09)
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Remember the cats in the cradle? This film is a bittersweet drama about a son growing up with a workaholic dad. Dad is always busy. Is it any wonder that once the son is grown and gone, he has no time for dad? Produced by Ted Jordan Productions.

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	Men's Fraternity: The Quest for Authentic Manhood DVD Pack LifeWay Church Resources \| 1/4/2005 \| Media: DVD Imagine the transforming power of men coming together within your church to honestly examine their lives and take the courageous steps necessary to embrace authentic biblical manhood.
	Living with Less Broadman & Holman \| 1/1/2006 \| Media: Paperback Our Price: $12.99 Mark Tabb won't ignore the facts about the hectic pace of modern life that we are, ironically, often too tired to acknowledge and change.
	Men's Fraternity: Winning at Work & Home - Viewer Guide LifeWay Church Resources \| 1/15/2006 \| Media: Paperback Our Price: $9.95 Challenging men to step forward, meet their responsibilities, and establish their manhood, Authentic Manhood, Winning at Work & Home focuses on the chief responsibilities men have--as husbands, fathers, and breadwinners. The study presents 2 mirrors to help men evaluate how they are doing in life: the mirror of work and career, and the mirror of home and family.
	Men at Work: Life Beyond the Office Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Author: James E. Dittes \| Price: $14.95 Men need help defining the proper place of work in life and recognizing their unhealthy dependencies to work. More than just a how-to book to overcome workaholism, Dittes gives spiritual support for men to reclaim the rest of life's possibilities.
	Time for a Checkup: Wholeness (Becoming a Disciple Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Paperback \| Our Price: $6.99 People seeking physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness spend billions of dollars each year in their search. We are a people seeking purpose, healing, and wholeness. True wholeness is elusive, but it can be found. Jesus offers wholeness of our bodies, our minds, and our spirits. In a world that if frail, fractured, and frazzled ... this truly is good news!
	A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Overloaded Lives Swenson, Richard A. \| Navpress Publishing Group \| 2003 \| $16.99 Expanding on principles from Dr. Richard Swenson's best-selling books Margin and The Overload Syndrome, this book consists of 180 daily readings to help restore balance to hectic, modern lives. Each reading serves as a practical assignment--a helpful 'prescription'--to eliminate unneeded frustrations and start winning the war with our time.
	Intentional Choices Intentional Choices - Member (Life Connections Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Media: Paperback \| $6.99 This study will teach you how to find peace in a complex and difficult world. It will deepen your walk with Christ as your group discovers together how stress can draw you closer to one another and to the Lord.
	Keeping Your Cool (Growing in Christ Series) Serendipity \| 2003 \| Media: Paperback \| $6.99 The stimulating six books in the "Growing in Christ Series" from Serendipity House will help anyone from the seeker to the mature believer discover how God works in their world and lives. These innovative and thought-provoking studies will compel your group to interact honestly and openly while creating an environment of laughter, connectedness, and anticipation. This study is excellent for new groups.