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MY FAVORITES
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For years, I worked in advertising (my day job) and wrote books about Christian faith. But I didn't despise one kind of work and love the other.
At fourteen, I took on a twice-a-day paper route that was demanding and dangerous. Though it included my own quiet residential street, it also included a stretch of a busy U.S. highway spiked with narrow, shoulderless intersecting roads and lined with bars, liquor stores, seedy housing, and trailer courts.
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God waits for us to unwrap our gifts, but sometimes we've sold the very part of ourselves that makes that possible.
You can't know 'til you try . . . in the high calling of our daily work.
The nobility of going about our ordinary routines with dignity and grace is a big part of the high calling of our daily work.
Are you having trouble seeing the blessings around you? Maybe you're just not looking.
RESOURCES I'VE TAGGED
When Christians work in the world, we are the church. All of us understand this on an intellectual level.
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"There is no contentment outside God." Ken Burenga, Former President, Dow Jones
Are you having trouble seeing the blessings around you? Maybe you're just not looking.
Loyalty to our commitments is essential . . . in the high calling of our daily work.
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And the pastor is just as much the laity as the guy who farms or puts tires on cars.
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Learning this truth was one of the first tasks of the early Christians in Jerusalem. Having chosen to share their possessions, they began well. It was not long, however, before they ran headlong into a difficulty.
COMMENTS I'VE MADE
When Christians work in the world, we are the church. All of us understand this on an intellectual level.
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My work pays me to stand by while people fling mud at my product. Okay, maybe that's a little melodramatic, but no less true.
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"To see God's hand in science greatly expands the joy of the enterprise… I know what science is like without God, and I like it a lot better with God."
Little children live in a concrete world. Abstractions don't mean anything to them.
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And the pastor is just as much the laity as the guy who farms or puts tires on cars.
A coach takes his faith to work, and it comes out as respect for others.
A boxer rises from the floor of defeat and encourages us to get back in the ring.
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Do you let others receive the glory and enjoy their day in the sun? Barak did.
To teach his class about perspective, a journalism professor stood with his nose pressed against the whiteboard.
