Why Faith AND Work?
10 Apr 3 Reasons Easter Matters For Your Work
The hope of Christians lies in Jesus’ work on the cross and his resurrection. What does the resurrection, which we celebrate during Easter, mean for one of the most consuming parts of our lives--our work? In his book The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work, Darrell...
08 Nov Golden Rule For Your Email Inbox
The average professional receives approximately 120 emails in her work inbox daily, on top of the emails in her personal inboxes and social media DMs. Interspersed among notes from colleagues and friends is a deluge of deals and newsletters asking us to read, buy, share, and be...
04 Oct How Can I Serve The Lord Through My Ordinary Job?
As a young Christian in college, I heard a speaker mention that Luke begins the book of Acts with a unique statement about his Gospel: “In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach” (Acts 1:1). The...
06 Sep Job Crafting: How To Cultivate Our Vocation At Work
For Christians, work is an integral part of our calling, and our vocation is more than a job or career. But working this out can be challenging. If our occupations are part of our Father’s creative and sanctifying work in the world, we’ve got quite a bit of...
19 Nov A Prayer of Thanks
Lord you have been good to us. Thank you for giving us rest. Thank you for nourishing our souls while we rested in your presence. God of all grace, who called us to your eternal glory in Christ, we thank you that we can throw all...
06 Sep 5 Ways Faith Shapes Our Work
1. “Faith gives you an inner ballast without which work could destroy you. If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts. Christian faith gives you a new identity, without which work...
02 Aug What Does Loving God Have to Do With Your Job?
What is the most important thing we need to do in this life as Christians? There are good clear summary statements to this point in the Bible. The Old Testament Shema is certainly one of the best: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord...
01 Jun Finding Flourishing in the Setting of Our Vocations
The Reformer Martin Luther is well known for his life-changing views on salvation—salvation is a gift to be received, not a work to be achieved. Less known is Luther’s life-changing views on vocation. To rectify this, Michael Berg’s Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing, introduces...
05 Jan I ‘Just’ Do Ordinary Work
Over the years, I’ve interviewed hundreds of people about their work. I generally begin with a simple question: “Do you enjoy your job? Why or why not?” I’ve been amazed at the number of people who began with two words: “I just.” Educators say, “I just...
20 Dec We Have Talents We Can Give as Gifts to Christ
I love to give gifts; it’s my favorite part of Christmas. It’s a special kind of fun to choose the perfect toys for my six nephews and find the softest sweater for my mom. Harder to find though, is the gift I can give to my...
23 Nov Cultivating Gratitude at Work
As we approach Thanksgiving, it is appropriate we take a moment to thank God for His blessings. However, let’s be honest. Many of us have struggled in so many ways during this long pandemic: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. How can Christians truly praise God during...
28 Aug Embracing a Posture of Gentleness in the Workplace
Lately, I’ve experienced an especially busy and stressful season at work and at home. After 18 difficult months, I’ve noticed that on top of the physical and emotional exhaustion, I am—as I’m sure many others are as well—making more mistakes, more forgetful, and finding myself...
28 May [Not] Changing The World
It’s not a classroom I’m used to. I’m seated at a long table, chairs gathered around. No orderly desks lined up facing a whiteboard. Instead, we’re set up in the middle of a community space. Toys litter the room, a kitchen opens onto our space, glass...
28 Apr Designed to Work: Redeeming Architecture
I am what is called a “necessity entrepreneur.” This is a nice phrase for people who started a business after losing their jobs in the recession: in my case, after thirty years as an employee of various small and large firms. In the five years...
06 Apr 4 Ways Faith Affects Our Work
I’ve had some busy people pick up Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work, look at the subtitle, and ask: “OK, so, in a nutshell, how does God’s work connect to our work?” Always a good exercise for an author, to be asked...
10 Mar Worship: A Key Bridge Connecting Faith & Work
How do faith and work come together? In their book, Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy, Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson argue that worship is essential to bridging the gap between faith and work. It is not enough to merely think our...
08 Feb Why Work Is At The Heart Of God’s Mission
Almost every Sunday morning at church, as we finish the final songs and benediction (and I prepare to pick up my crew of girls from Sunday School – now four!), I find myself asking the same question: What is the Church sent into the world...
15 Jan Does Our Theology of Work Include Rest and Recreation?
In many ways, the culture in which we live has lost sight of a vision of work that resonates with what we see in scripture. Two aspects of this vision that we’ve forgotten are rest and recreation. Though work has been part of God’s design for humans since...
26 Nov Work, From the Beginning
From the beginning, at the dawn of history, men and women are called first into a relationship with God. Then, secondly, they are called to participate with God in exercising “dominion” – managing, shaping, designing and developing the world that God has created and entrusted...
28 Oct The Hope Of The Gospel For Our Stress At Work
Stressed. Tired. Exhausted. Anxious. America has been reckoning with the cost of hyperproductivity long before 2020. However, the myriad effects of the pandemic— job loss, fragile employment status, complications for working parents, and forced changes in nearly all industries—have only further exacerbated our problems with stress....
29 Sep 10 Key Points About Work in the Bible Every Christian Should Know
The Bible makes it clear that work matters to God. No matter what your profession or occupation – whether you’re a parent, a bus driver, an artist or an engineer – God cares about your work. Here are ten key points about work drawn from...
26 Aug A Gospel Response to A Difficult Boss
Have you ever worked for a toxic boss? I’m not talking quirky, or even annoying. I mean the kind that says one thing to your face and another behind your back. The kind who takes credit for your work, or throws blame your way when...
30 Jul The Gospel for Our Work
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” I still remember when I really came to believe that statement for the first time. Here was the gospel in all of its scandalous beauty: that God, despite all my...
29 Jun Loving Your Neighbor (at Work) as Yourself
The most famous verse in Leviticus may be the command, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18). This imperative is so sweeping that both Jesus and the rabbis regarded it as one of the two “great” commandments, the other being “Hear, O Israel: the Lord...
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