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Jun 6, 2013
Working for God’s Best
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Mark comes home from another exhausting night in the pediatric emergency room. In his mind he reviews the children’s faces, the difficult cases, the pained parents, and the good that he and his medical team were able to accomplish. It was a very hard night and yet a fulfilling night for all of the comfort and healing he was able to administer. There is... Read More + |
Jun 6, 2013
Imagination and the Work of Faith
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In third grade, I taught myself to raise one eyebrow at a time. I had seen and heard enough by then to know this ol' world had more wretched than redeemable, and I was assertively armed and ready to express my new-found cynicism. Anything that could serve as a mirror, from the windows on the school bus to the large rectangular one over my dresser,... Read More + |
Jun 6, 2013
Books on Work: Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath, Part One
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On Mondays in June we’ll be discussing Chip and Dan Heath’s latest book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. This week we cover the introduction through chapter four. Chip and Dan Heath want to help us make better decisions. It is not enough, they say, to understand why we make the mistakes we do. If we truly want to improve the... Read More + |
Jun 5, 2013
Give Me a Break
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While planning our family’s first real-deal, official vacation, I came across the following statistic: According to research on young professionals in central New Jersey, “86% plan to take an adventure vacation (hiking, diving, etc.) in the next 12 months.” That’s a lot of people planning a break from their daily work. It also reported that “84% use... Read More + |
Jun 5, 2013
How to Get What You Want From an Unreasonable Boss
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Esther, the Queen of Persia who saved the Jewish people from annihilation in the fifth Century BC, is a master at tackling problems at work. To start, she understands how to influence an irrational, pompous boss. If she were alive today, she’d offer a pricey yet wildly popular seminar: How To Get What You Want From An Unreasonable Boss. She makes it look... Read More + |
Jun 5, 2013
Give 'em Heaven
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Fourteen-year-old Larissa Heatley, Dallas Willard’s only granddaughter, delivered a personal tribute at his memorial service. She is sharing her message with us today, giving us a sweet, intimate glimpse into their relationship. I’m Larissa, Dallas Willard’s granddaughter, and he used to say I was a grand-daughter. But granddaughters only exist with... Read More + |
Jun 2, 2013
In God's Hands
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That afternoon, every employee in Jenny’s department watched the clock nervously. At 3 p.m., emails would go out to those getting laid off. At 3:01, her inbox dinged. Jenny was out of work. From other cubicles, someone pounded a fist, another shouted. One person even cried. Jenny felt like doing it all. Instead, she walked to a coworker and said, “How... Read More + |
May 31, 2013
What The Office Teaches Christians About the Workplace
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The finale of “The Office” had me laughing and even close to shedding a tear. For nine seasons, we watched as a PBS documentary crew filmed a bunch of people working in the Scranton office of the Dunder Miflin paper company. As we peered into the lives of these ordinary office workers, we could identify with them from our own office experiences. We could... Read More + |
May 31, 2013
How to Sound More Confident
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Lately, I have been coaching one of our managers on how to appear more confident in front of groups. I am uniquely qualified for this task because I am oh-so-familiar with self-confidence issues, as they played out many times in my early career. I would freeze up, quake in my boots, get dry mouth, gastric problems – you name it. Yet somehow, by the grace... Read More + |
May 30, 2013
The High Calling of Everyday Ordinary Living
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Being a “radical,” “missional,” Christian is slowly becoming the “new legalism.” We need more ordinary God and people lovers (Matt 22:36-40). That was a tweet sent out earlier this month from Anthony Bradley, Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at The King’s College in New York City and a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute. Can a Christian Read More + |
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