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Your Work Matters: Working with God
Father, we thank you for this food which you have provided. We thank you for our home, and for all of the many ways you have watched over us this day. Several times each day my wife and I have cause to pray for and with our children. Many of these prayers are simple and heart felt prayers of gratitude. Get Your Free e-Book HereMillions of Christians look great on Sunday but switch God OFF by...
Your Work Matters: Working with God
Father, we thank you for this food which you have provided. We thank you for our home, and for all of the many ways you have watched over us this day. Several times each day my wife and I have cause to pray for and with our children. Many of these prayers are simple and heart felt prayers of gratitude. Get Your Free e-Book HereMillions of Christians look great on Sunday but switch God OFF by...
Ministry in Every Job
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work and walking around life--and place it before God as an offering. (Romans 12:1 - The Message) Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the Bible says about work? Sign up below for a free e-Book on the subject! First Name * Last Name * Email * A common...
Is My Job Ministry?
...whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31) Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the Bible says about work? Sign up below for a free e-Book on the subject! First Name * Last Name * Email * Throughout the Bible, workers served God in many forms: farmers, priests, ranchers, carpenters, doctors, tax collectors, temple (church) workers, guards and...
Guilt and the Working Mom
I cuddled my five-month-old firstborn, wishing she were awake, wishing the evening were longer. She slept as only a baby can, her soft breath caressing my neck. I wished I could coo to her, watch her smile, laugh, drool — anything. It was 7 p.m. She had done those things earlier with Nana—while I was at work. As I held her and cried, I asked myself, Would she know which one of...
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The Sacredness of Work
Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the Bible says about work? Sign up below for a free e-Book on the subject! First Name * Last Name * Email * An auto mechanic with bruised, cracked hands — the product of years of hard, often thankless work — fiddles...
A New Job Description
Recently I had been invited to an informational meeting of the Deacon’s Ministry Team of our church. The invitation was prompted by a recent conversation with our minister about my spiritual journey in need of a new spark. My spiritual practice consisted mostly of...
Work as Worship
Get Your Free e-Book HereWant to learn more on what the Bible says about work? Sign up below for a free e-Book on the subject! First Name * Last Name * Email * Nursing is my profession, my daily work. But it is also an important way I worship God. For me, work and...
Office Politics: Daniel, a Workplace Hero
Sometimes I feel like somebody stole my Bible and slipped me a poor substitute. After all, the characters in it seem like strangers. From pulpit after pulpit, they’re portrayed as full-time prophets, priests and ministers—the kind of people who go to seminary and get...
Supervisor-Employee Relationships
This article deals with the unique problems experienced by Christians when they supervise others or are employees. In the focus group discussion that formed the basis for part of this chapter, much of our conversation dealt with the supervisor’s perspective. The...
