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When Christians work in the world, we are the church. All of us understand this on an intellectual level.
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Even though it happened twelve years ago, I remember it like yesterday. Receiving that phone call—"your son is hurt."
Fr. Bill Wilson, a priest from California, trained to be a bishop through the finest education the Roman church offered and during the process became an alcoholic. He attended Vatican II and was determined to immediately bring the changes suggested…
Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most brilliant impressionist painters, spent much of his life in pain. He must have died believing he had accomplished nothing because he failed to become well known during his lifetime. In fact, he failed at nearly everything.…
No one can take in the entire world. But with each person we know well, we enlarge our picture of the world—and of ourselves—in the high calling of our daily work.
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Armed with prayer and good intentions, I resolved in the coming week to make every action a beautiful expression of faith.
Christian faith informs and shapes our professions.
Christ’s intended church is an army of love.
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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.
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Hanging On . . .
We can grow through our efforts to understand small things in the high calling of our daily work.
Every organization, every institution develops a culture peculiar to itself.
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David was a good guy. But I always felt he was meddling in my business.
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When God got busy creating, he did so with energy and imagination. He didn’t hold back, and it’s clear why. God was having fun. Perhaps we should approach our work with the same verve and boldness?
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The book of Psalms has a whole slew of references to God enabling David (or the psalmist) to accomplish marvelous things like crushing armies, scaling walls, slaying dragons . . .
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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.
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The CEO of a large financial services company announced his early resignation without fanfare or explanation.
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Sometimes my work is ordinary. Boring tasks pile up like dusty, old field rocks, but grace is in these ordinary days.
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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."
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"I want to remind Christians of our intellectual creative spiritual legacy... Bach and Mendelson and Dante and Dostoyevsky and Newton and Pascal and Rembrandt." —Dick Staub
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"Jesus was present in culture. And we have to pattern our lives and work and ministries after him." —Dick Staub
Our close relationships are the heartbeat and the power in the high calling of our daily work.
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God never told Moses, "OK, stop leading the people. You love it too much."
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"He's yours if you want him," said the sheriff. "He won't cost you nothing except his keep."
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Bezalel and Oholiab? Who are they? Most people have never heard of them.
How To Think About Competition
"As far as I'm concerned, business is ministry. Business is a way we steward the gifts we're given: whether people, purpose, or purses. My responsibility in my work is to live out Christ's love in its endless ramifications."
"I don’t feel any kinship with Tom Delay or Jeffrey Skilling. Nothing is special about being a celebrity sinner."
"Most days I begin by asking God for wisdom; most meetings I enter silently asking for His insight." Mark DeMoss, The DeMoss Group
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I have encountered a transforming God who has absolutely changed my life and gives me a level of freedom and beauty that I didn’t know was possible.
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Leigh McLeroy explains "the beautiful ache" in life and work—with stories about her work, her family, and working for a difficult boss.
You can't know 'til you try . . . in the high calling of our daily work.
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No matter how much she annoyed me, God kept thrusting us together.
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Three women visited with me last week—three women who danced their faith in their everyday walk—and who got out of God's way so the Master could do His mighty thing!
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Imagine you entered a concert hall where a symphony orchestra sat ready to play, but half of the members had their hands tied behind their backs.
Loyalty to our commitments is essential . . . in the high calling of our daily work.
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Leigh McLeroy explains "the beautiful ache" in life and work—with stories about her work, her family, and working for a difficult boss.
Look around for a new vision of what could be.
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Lessons begin in our muscles and guts and work their way upwards until they embed themselves in our minds.
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Talking to Joy Jordan-Lake, Author of Working Families: Navigating the Demands of Marriage, Parenting, and Career - Part 3 of 3
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Talking to Joy Jordan-Lake, Author of Working Families: Navigating the Demands of Marriage, Parenting, and Career - Part 1 of 3
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Talking to Joy Jordan-Lake, Author of Working Families: Navigating the Demands of Marriage, Parenting, and Career - Part 2 of 3
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Mr. Stephens is one of the most effective educational leaders I know.
Who knows the power and potential of your friendships—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.
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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"I can't think of holier work than planting and nourishing life-long learning in children and adults and getting them to ask the big questions."
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At age 21, Phil Vischer had created VeggieTales to make cartoons with content. To staff the work, he incorporated Big Idea. By his early 30s, he was helmsman of the biggest animation enterprise between New York and L.A. By his mid-30s, he was in bankruptcy court.
After my doctor sees the x-ray, he comes out, pats me on the back, and tells me how good it is to see me. Then he says, "Oh! And we're going to have to do an emergency angioplasty and possible stint replacement. The nurses will be in to prep you for surgery in about five minutes."
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We are not merely isolated individuals doing our own thing. We must remember, as Paul says in Romans 12:4-8, that we are members of a larger body, and we work best when we all work together.
This past weekend was an incredible one. Our Laity Lodge Youth Camp celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a staff reunion. More than three hundred former staff members and their families descended upon the Frio River Canyon.
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"Missional entrepreneurs do more than look for a ready market where they can make some quick money. They have a long term vision of how they can use entrepreneur skills to create a richer culture." —Dick Staub
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A computer rebels before a deadline. A project unravels. He asks me to accept this.
Coach Tony Dungy reached the very brink of success—and then was fired.
Do we really have a clue? Things happen to us, and we don't know why.
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We've worked closely together for eighteen years, and we're as different as night and day.
Be careful what you say about other people. You never know who may be listening.
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"Be ready to give up what you are for what you might become."
She was a slip of a girl. Five years old on her last birthday; long, soft brown hair and startlingly clear blue eyes. She was full of energy and creative fun, but she could also curl up in any available lap to quietly suck her thumb. And she was tender,…
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From the often pioneering and sometimes bruised leading edge of a Christian woman in a high corporate seat, Bonnie Wurzbacher weighs in on the importance of women leaders in business and church.
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and set them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live." But the midwives feared God; they…
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You will spend over 100,000 hours of your life working. This is more than anything else you’ll do except sleep.
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For years, I collected bad attitudes and negativity from the work world and brought them home to my young family.
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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.
