Emphasis Preaching Journal

Sometimes it's the old hymn that says it best. I grew up listening to my grandfather do his farm chores to the words of that old-time favorite, "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder." The words didn't mean much to me when I was a child, making mud pies in the middle of the barnyard; but they mean a great deal to me today. The last verse of that old hymn seems to sum up what Paul is saying to us in the fifth chapter of Ephesians. See for yourself:

Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun,