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Seeing the Value of Their Work
After attending a conference in New York City, a pastoral colleague, Reid Kapple, was flying home to Kansas City on US Airways flight 745 when the plane suddenly lost cabin pressure. As the plane desc... -
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Thinking Biblically about Work and Ownership
In modern Western culture we place a high value on work, which is fine, but one of the philosophical assumptions that can come with such values is that we assume that we own what we earn or buy. From ... -
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Identity and Work
Is your last name Smith, Miller, Cooper, or Baker? Many surnames have their origin in the trades that your ancestors were identified with. Today, especially with the rise of the “gig economy,” people ... -
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We Need Conversation Partners when Discussing our Work
When it comes to our work we likely need at the very least three conversation partners. Two of these should ideally be peers—perhaps one who is in a similar line of work (e.g., a fellow nurse who know... -
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Parenting is Part of My Work
There have been times in my life when I’ve wondered if I have failed to accomplish what God intended for me in my professional life. I have worried that I have not lived up to my potential. I judge my... -
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Glorifying God in our Work
Work is one way, perhaps even the main way, we can glorify God in this life. This may sound confusing if you tend to think of glorifying God as what we do in church when we sing praises to God. No qu... -
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Never Leaving Their Work
Because of the modern rhythms of work that are mediated through personal computers and phones, people, in the words of one cultural commentator, “leave the office, but they do not leave their work. Th... -
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Calling Means Finding Purpose in Every Kind of Work
God calls His people to lots of different things. Sometimes you feel a sense of calling to your job and, you know what, sometimes you don’t. You just work. I’m extremely thankful that I love what I do... -
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The Three Orientations Towards Work
In his landmark work, Habits of the Heart, the sociologist Robert Bellah describes thee distinct orientations people take with respect to their work. The first orientation is to see your work as a job... -
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Getting the Right Goals May be the Key to Success
Worthy goals are generally motivated by something deeper than success. In her conversations with Nobel laureates, [researcher Xiaodong D.] Lin said she has found that “they all have insatiable passion... -
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Ekklesia: The Work of the People
The Greek word for the gathered church offers some insight into how the apostles saw their gatherings. Though the language offered a variety of options for words to describe the gathering church, the ... -
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A Saxophonist's Spiritual Revelation
John Coltrane stands out as one of the giants of 20th-century jazz. His legacy is a generation of hearts touched and the light of God shining through his songs. Yet, for years, his work was haunted by... -
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Discovering Your Unique Purpose
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. He custom designed you for a one-of-a-kind assignment. Mine like a gold digger the unique-to-you... -
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Work, Relationships, and Personal Maturity
Sharan Merriam and Carolyn Clark, in their fine study Lifelines , effectively show that life is fundamentally about two things—our work and our relationships. And maturity is found in having the c... -
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The Value of a Stradivarius & our Answering our True Calling
Have you ever heard of a Stradivarius violin? It’s the gold standard of violins—instantly recognizable and famously expensive. These aren’t $29.95 instruments. One sold for $1 million, another for $4 ... -
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Religious Faith in the Workplace? The Resistance May Not Be What You Think
More often than not, park-it-at-the-door thinking [about religious faith] has less to do with hostility to faith than with the avoidance of risk, for many employer’s fear that any hint of religion is ... -
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Asking for a Pastor’s Advice? Mostly Not
Despite a widely shared belief that faith should inform ethical decisions at work, a mere 18 of 230 respondents had ever consulted a pastor for advice about a work-related matter. Of these, six were ... -
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Struggling to Rest
Rest has never been one of America’s greatest strengths. According to one study, only one in seven adults (14%) have set aside an entire day for the purpose of rest. For those who do set aside an enti... -
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A Coca-Cola Philosophy & Empty Calories
Studies reveal that 37 percent of Americans take fewer than seven days of vacation a year. In fact, only 14 percent take vacations that last longer than two weeks. Americans take the shortest paid vac... -
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We Need To Hear Our Names
In his wonderful book Run with Horses , Eugene Peterson reminds us of many of the ways in which modern life de-personalizes and degrades us. We become a number and not a name. We are valued for wha... -
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Homemaker vs. Breadwinner
Contemporary society assumes that we make a choice: one member of a household will be the “homemaker” and the other the “breadwinner” (i.e., in the marketplace generating income to sustain the home). ... -
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Mastering our Craft
The wonderful word master used to describe the person who is at the top of his or her craft, whatever the profession. It was a title that one could work toward and with some degree of confidence ascri... -
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The Heroes of the Bible (mostly) had Regular Jobs
Most of the heroes in the Bible had what we would think of as secular vocations. Isaac developed real estate, Jacob was a rancher, and Joseph was a government official (in charge of agriculture, the e... -
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God Became Flesh and Built Something
Jesus also spent time—decades even—building stuff. Jesus was a tradesman. He is called a tekton (Mark 6:3), a builder who used his hands. God came to earth and apparently thought it worth his while to... -
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WALL-E and Work
The animated movie WALL-E is a cute story of a curious robot whose job is to clean up a trashed earth. While humans once inhabited the earth, we soon discover they have been evacuated from earth with ... -
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Parkinson’s Law
It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in writing and dispatching a postcard t... -
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The Cheerful Barista
In Know Your Why , Ken Costa related an encounter with a barista in an airport in Austin, Texas. When he went to pick up a coffee before an early flight, he noticed that she was “cheerfulness itself”... -
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Just Charge It!
I recently attended an event sponsored by Compassion International, the International Child Sponsorship Organization. The event was called “Stepping into My Shoes”. The purpose being to show children ... -
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The Parable of the Two Servants
In this modern day parable, Alan Fadling describes a king and his two servants. Each of the servants desires to do the will of the king, but they approach their work very differently: One of the serv... -
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That Future Life
As he reflected on his life’s work, the famed author of Les Miserables , The Count of Monte Cristo , and many others, Victor Hugo describes what he believed about life after death, that heaven would...
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- Sabbath (39)
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- Sharing the Gospel (10)
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- The Sacraments (10)
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- The Spiritual Life (12)
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- Taking A Leap Of Faith (10)
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- Temptation (28)
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- Trust (41)
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- Truth (28)
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- The Work of the Holy Spirit (10)
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- Work-Life Balance (17)
- Works-Righteousness (16)
- World (22)
- Worldly Power (17)
- Worldview (19)
- Worry (15)
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- Wounds (17)
Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (106)
- Gen 2 (85)
- Gen 3 (44)
- Gen 4 (16)
- Gen 5 (1)
- Gen 6 (4)
- Gen 8 (11)
- Gen 9 (3)
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- Gen 21 (6)
- Gen 22 (17)
- Gen 24 (1)
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- Gen 27 (8)
- Gen 28 (9)
- Gen 29 (6)
- Gen 32 (11)
- Gen 33 (2)
- Gen 35 (2)
- Gen 36 (1)
- Gen 37 (12)
- Gen 39 (9)
- Gen 41 (5)
- Gen 42 (1)
- Gen 44 (1)
- Gen 45 (6)
- Gen 47 (1)
- Gen 50 (26)
Exodus
- Exod 1 (8)
- Exod 2 (7)
- Exod 3 (62)
- Exod 4 (16)
- Exod 5 (4)
- Exod 6 (2)
- Exod 7 (2)
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- Exod 21 (2)
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- Exod 23 (8)
- Exod 24 (5)
- Exod 25 (3)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (5)
- Exod 31 (8)
- Exod 32 (31)
- Exod 33 (21)
- Exod 34 (11)
- Exod 35 (5)
- Exod 40 (2)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Nehemiah
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (27)
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- Ps 3 (3)
- Ps 4 (7)
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- Ps 19 (47)
- Ps 20 (3)
- Ps 22 (16)
- Ps 23 (74)
- Ps 24 (14)
- Ps 25 (19)
- Ps 27 (32)
- Ps 28 (1)
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- Ps 30 (7)
- Ps 31 (5)
- Ps 32 (14)
- Ps 33 (6)
- Ps 34 (86)
- Ps 36 (1)
- Ps 37 (40)
- Ps 38 (3)
- Ps 39 (4)
- Ps 40 (10)
- Ps 41 (1)
- Ps 42 (42)
- Ps 43 (3)
- Ps 45 (1)
- Ps 46 (62)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (4)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (49)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 53 (1)
- Ps 55 (10)
- Ps 56 (8)
- Ps 57 (1)
- Ps 60 (1)
- Ps 61 (1)
- Ps 62 (8)
- Ps 63 (13)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 66 (2)
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- Ps 68 (2)
- Ps 69 (2)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (9)
- Ps 73 (17)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 75 (1)
- Ps 77 (3)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 82 (20)
- Ps 84 (3)
- Ps 85 (4)
- Ps 86 (4)
- Ps 88 (5)
- Ps 90 (29)
- Ps 91 (12)
- Ps 92 (4)
- Ps 93 (1)
- Ps 94 (6)
- Ps 95 (6)
- Ps 96 (11)
- Ps 98 (1)
- Ps 100 (10)
- Ps 101 (2)
- Ps 102 (2)
- Ps 103 (36)
- Ps 104 (22)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (2)
- Ps 107 (3)
- Ps 110 (3)
- Ps 111 (1)
- Ps 112 (4)
- Ps 115 (9)
- Ps 116 (7)
- Ps 118 (14)
- Ps 119 (76)
- Ps 121 (16)
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- Ps 126 (6)
- Ps 127 (25)
- Ps 128 (3)
- Ps 130 (9)
- Ps 131 (6)
- Ps 133 (17)
- Ps 135 (1)
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- Ps 137 (4)
- Ps 138 (2)
- Ps 139 (82)
- Ps 141 (8)
- Ps 142 (1)
- Ps 143 (4)
- Ps 144 (1)
- Ps 145 (11)
- Ps 146 (16)
- Ps 147 (20)
- Ps 148 (2)
- Ps 150 (3)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (5)
- Prov 3 (95)
- Prov 4 (33)
- Prov 5 (5)
- Prov 6 (6)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (4)
- Prov 9 (4)
- Prov 10 (8)
- Prov 11 (23)
- Prov 12 (19)
- Prov 13 (8)
- Prov 14 (30)
- Prov 15 (33)
- Prov 16 (49)
- Prov 17 (31)
- Prov 18 (37)
- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (9)
- Prov 21 (13)
- Prov 22 (30)
- Prov 23 (4)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (13)
- Prov 26 (10)
- Prov 27 (30)
- Prov 28 (11)
- Prov 29 (11)
- Prov 30 (5)
- Prov 31 (31)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (40)
- Isa 2 (7)
- Isa 5 (6)
- Isa 6 (37)
- Isa 7 (10)
- Isa 9 (35)
- Isa 11 (7)
- Isa 12 (2)
- Isa 14 (4)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (7)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (6)
- Isa 29 (6)
- Isa 30 (43)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (4)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (90)
- Isa 41 (39)
- Isa 42 (20)
- Isa 43 (53)
- Isa 44 (4)
- Isa 45 (12)
- Isa 46 (4)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (9)
- Isa 49 (16)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (71)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (87)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (7)
- Isa 58 (47)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (10)
- Isa 61 (30)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (16)
- Isa 65 (11)
- Isa 66 (5)
- Isa 85 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (21)
- Matt 2 (35)
- Matt 3 (11)
- Matt 4 (54)
- Matt 5 (169)
- Matt 6 (177)
- Matt 7 (82)
- Matt 8 (11)
- Matt 9 (18)
- Matt 10 (33)
- Matt 11 (55)
- Matt 12 (21)
- Matt 13 (35)
- Matt 14 (26)
- Matt 15 (11)
- Matt 16 (41)
- Matt 17 (8)
- Matt 18 (68)
- Matt 19 (21)
- Matt 20 (17)
- Matt 21 (20)
- Matt 22 (30)
- Matt 23 (53)
- Matt 24 (18)
- Matt 25 (94)
- Matt 26 (22)
- Matt 27 (10)
- Matt 28 (39)



