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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...
How Revival Started in the Marketplace
This is a record of something God did 150 years ago in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the 19th century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was prosperous and felt little need to call on God. Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the Bible says...
Your Work is Important to God
And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. -- Genesis 1:28 Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the...
Just Another Day at Work
Many of you will go to work today. What do you think is your mission at work? Have you even thought about work this way before? If you haven't, now is a good time to begin. You may think that work is a meaningless exercise in futility that you have to do because... well... everyone has to make a living. But work is much more than that. It is your mission field. Regardless of what you do,...
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1 Essential Practice for Finding Greater Meaning and Mission In Your Work
I was captivated recently by a story I read about Billy Graham in a book entitled “With” by Skye Jethani: He arrived to do an interview for the Today show in 1982. As he entered the studio, one of the program’s producers informed Mr. Graham’s...
What’s Wrong With: “Don’t Worry; Be Happy!” Work Advice?
What is the worst advice you have ever been given? I was relaying a story to a friend recently regarding some advice my father received from a prison chaplain years ago. Prior to his incarceration, he had met a woman who shared his struggles with alcohol addiction....
Do You Have Spiritual Schizophrenia?
Consider the following story of a Spiritually Schizophrenic manager. He desperately wanted to have a life with more meaning and broader impact. He deeply desired to invest his life doing something that mattered most to God and assumed that this meant that God was...
