What if you could focus everything in your life — your marriage, your family, your career, and your pleasures — through a single unifying lens? Would having such a lens order the fragmented pieces of your world?

Newsflash: nobody ever got to their deathbed, and in reflecting on their lifetime, said to themselves, “Boy, I wish I had spent more time in the office!” No one ever said that. They said, “I wish I spent more time with family. I wish I spent more time having fun. I wish I spent more time relaxing.” They don’t say, “I wish I spent more time working.

Here's the truth: we can be great, big Jesus followers at work, but if we neglect our family, it discounts our witness and testimony.

1 John 4:11-12 says, "Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us." In other words, the way that you love your family should be an extension, an expression of God's love for you. And if it isn't, then your life is not expressing the gospel in its fullness.

Too many parents today are making the nest too comfortable, so the kids don't want to leave.  Who can blame them? We must, however, trust God with their lives. He has them, and He has a plan for them.

Marriage has been difficult since sin entered the world, but people always learned to love and adore their spouse, despite the difficulty. God created marriage to introduce Jesus to children. When a marriage destructs, kids are destroyed and kids start to question who God is and why He let their mom and dad split up.

At the Holiday's, emotional hurt is amplified and multiplied. Think about the people you know who have lost a child, a parent, a spouse, or a best friend in the last year. The Holiday blues are a thing.

Workplaces are so easy to remain at a comfortable distance with people. Invite your coworkers and their families over for dinner. Develop genuine relationships over dinner with them and watch it transform your workplace.

Did you ever go to church camp when you were a kid? What’s the value in summer church camp? Camp gives kids the chance to see other people living out their faith, connecting their faith and their work.

My parents took us on the Family Vacation of a lifetime the Summer of 1971. We spent 3 weeks on the road with 5 of us. It doesn’t matter how much the trip cost my parents, what mattered was that the trip was spent together as a family.

Life sure changes when school lets out for summer break. Let’s focus on how it can impact our family life this summer. How can we put our iWork4Him thinking into practice during the summer?