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On Holy Ground!
"Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths." (Psalm 25:4) The deepest activity of God all the way through the Bible is in the marketplace. God takes up residence in His people, and then functions through His people in the world. The difficulty is that the marketplace is not encountering God in the lives of His people as it ought to. We should notice a qualified difference when we...
On Holy Ground!
"Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths." (Psalm 25:4) The deepest activity of God all the way through the Bible is in the marketplace. God takes up residence in His people, and then functions through His people in the world. The difficulty is that the marketplace is not encountering God in the lives of His people as it ought to. We should notice a qualified difference when we...
The Monday to Friday Holy Land
I was at a meeting recently for a church group that was planning a conference.The planners got very excited when they started discussing the side excursions they could offer the participants. "We can go to visit the holy places around Santa Fe," they said. "There's the Native American burial grounds, the old Spanish mission, the cathedral, the holy mountains and...." Get Your Free e-Book...
Freedom from the Curse of Work
Did you know that your work and your workplace are under a curse?Have you ever thought about our attitude toward work and why most people think of work as a drudgery? Don't most of us see our work as a necessary duty, toilsome and difficult at times, often unpleasant, frequently boring, but nonetheless essential? So, typically on Monday mornings, as we face a new work week, most people are...
God Brings Prayer Focus to the Office
“Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours.” - Mark 11:24. A few years back, my wife, Katy, and I went to a conference in Atlanta called Marketplace Leaders Summit. It was there that I first heard the term “intercessor.” I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but it was an exciting concept. I thought about how lacking we were in...
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Why Otis Stayed Unsaved
My landlord, Otis, didn't have much use for the church. He saw it as a waste of time. Otis thought Christians were phonies. Worst of the lot, in his view, was the local church pastor who also ran a small business on the side. Otis had dealt with him once and...
Doing Justice to Employers
Work – Most employers would agree that good employees are difficult to find. They typically are referring to employees who work hard and effectively. Working hard, or the work ethic, has its genesis in the biblical ethic our forefathers brought to this country....
Doing Justice to Employees
Compensation – Although the free market system has over time enhanced the physical standard of living for a larger proportion of society’s population than any other economic system, the free market is still not devoid of rather widespread compensation...
Preparing for the Impact of Job Loss
Before we start to tackle this issue, let’s acknowledge a truth many people learn the hard way: All of us, every one of us, may be moments from a forced sabbatical ourselves. Because that’s true, I want to briefly list steps you can take today to be better prepared...
Replace Tolerance with Loving Accountability
If you are a sensitive, loving person…then you may have a tendency to affirm your accountability partner and others even when they err. This point of accountability application may be hard for you. I understand, because confronting others is difficult for...
