How can you bring the fruits of God’s Spirit to your workplace in your character, relationships, skills, and productivity?
Over 70 percent of our time is spent in the workplace, yet our training and teaching focus on areas where we spend much less time.
Do you simply "go to church" or are you constantly "being the church?
Do you think God is interested in your Monday-through-Friday work?
Work is not the enemy, and businesses are not the enemy. In fact, even those who oppose our faith are not the enemy. The real enemy is us. We must learn to see our work as serving God.
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.
Isolation is only one of the many dangers of being involuntarily out of work. Many times, though, that isolation inhibits the ability of the person out of work from describing the emotions they’re experiencing. The result is often a deeper alienation, and even a resentment towards those closest to us.
The next time you are tempted to depreciate your work, regroup and celebrate your sacred calling!
I have shouldered a strenuous medical career for the past 30 years as an anesthesiologist. However, there was a huge void in my primary interest to act as a caring human being who loves to comfort people in need.
Nursing is my profession, my daily work. But it is also an important way I worship God. For me, work and worship have become like two blades of a scissors; one is useless without the other. I now see that work is a ministry performed before God.
I’ve discovered that God’s Word is filled from cover to cover with real people who live in the real world and struggle with real jobs. Daniel is one of my favorite examples—look at the conditions he worked in and see if they don’t sound familiar to you.
This article deals with the unique problems experienced by Christians when they supervise others or are employees.
What is calling? What does it mean to be called by Jesus to our work?
Jesus never intended for the church to be a subculture but, rather, the counterculture. The church was not meant to assimilate itself into society, but to change society by transforming its cities.
If you don’t have an authority and a standard by which actions and attitudes are judged, you will never have integrity—personal or corporate. Relative truth doesn’t work; it’s another name for compromise.
It’s a pleasure to have a good employer. It’s a pleasure to have satisfying work. To make a heart commitment to work when conditions are good is fairly easy. On the other hand, it’s sad to see, or to be, people whose hearts aren’t in their work.
Hurry sickness is highly contagious and it has the curious side-effect of the sick thinking that they are well, whilst those without the disease are given the impression, from those infected, that there is something very wrong with them.
Only gratitude motivates us to care about others over the long term. So if gratitude is it, then let's explore three major sources of gratitude. There may be others, but let's talk about the big three that are central to the Christian.
All God asks of anyone in the workplace is to be faithful and obedient to him. A perfect example of this is Moses.
My challenge to you is to add another venue to your mission mind set – your workplace. There you will find people that look very much like you look. But do not let appearances lull you into an assumption that you and your coworkers share a common belief in Jesus Christ.
Have you ever felt the pull to full-time ministry work as a missionary or pastor? If not, you can still make a Kingdom impact without quitting your current job. In this eBook, you will learn the four essentials that can change your perspective of work, your workplace, and most importantly, your heart.
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