Recently I preached a sermon at Elevation on Philippians 2:14:
Do everything without complaining.
Turned out to be one of the most challenging verses I’ve ever tackled.  Not challenging to understand.  Challenging to live out.  I’m a pretty big baby sometimes.

So I challenged Elevation to engage in a one week fast.  Not a fast from eating.  A fast from complaining.  Technically, that may not be fasting.  But you get the point.

Every time we complained last week, we had to put a dollar in a jar.  The money will be given to one of our local outreach partners to feed hungry families.  And hopefully, we emerged from the experiment convicted, awakened, and refreshed in our perspective.

I walked into our staff meeting recently and shared a little “bonus sermon” with them on the subject of complaining.  Bonus sermon=all the stuff I would have added to my sermon if I’d had the time.  They seemed to enjoy it.

Over the next couple days I’ll pass along some of these practical applications to you.  We need all the help we can get if we’re going to do everything without complaining.