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How to Really Know What Matters in Your Work
“Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on the mountainside and sat down…and he began to teach them.” (Matthew 5:1-2) If you’re like I am, you work for a living. It’s not always fun, it’s not always meaningful, but most months it pays the bills. Let me ask you to take two minutes and think about this job of yours. Think about the tasks involved, the people with whom you typically associate, the...
How to Really Know What Matters in Your Work
“Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on the mountainside and sat down…and he began to teach them.” (Matthew 5:1-2) If you’re like I am, you work for a living. It’s not always fun, it’s not always meaningful, but most months it pays the bills. Let me ask you to take two minutes and think about this job of yours. Think about the tasks involved, the people with whom you typically associate, the...
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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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...
