Posts tagged purpose
What's the Point?

When you left your home for work today, if you left at all, did you do so with excitement and exhilaration or with dread and depression? Do you ever ask - what's the point of work? Many see work as a necessary evil used to get what we want. Is it the same in God's eyes?

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What pain in this world drives you to your knees?

God made each of us unique.

  • Each has a unique set of gifts, talents, and abilities.

  • Each has a unique relationship with God – experiencing Him differently than I do.

  • Each has a unique passion in their heart.

  • Each is brought to their knees by a different pain in the world.

These unique qualities drive us to solve different problems in our work, homes, and communities. What is it for you?

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The power of ONE question

If I could ask you one question to ponder, I know what it would be. It’s a question we ask on our website, and a question we started asking ourselves years ago.

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Not today SATAN!

Does your faith cost you anything? Let me ask it another way, is it costing you anything to live out your faith in your work? Are you facing any opposition, conflict or adversity because of your faith?

Let’s ramp up our faith at work and make it necessary to wear the shirt “Not today SATAN”!

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Turn Down The Volume

Sometimes the TV is so loud that I can’t hear my wife, Martha asking me a question. I have trouble talking in the car if the radio is on. It seems like I can only really listen to one thing at a time. There are so many voices fighting for my attention, how do I choose? There are Voices on TV, radio, podcasts, online and in person. How do you and I turn down those voices so we can hear the voice of Truth?

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Celebrating Work Or Just Another Holiday Weekend?

This weekend is the only weekend of the year where for 3 days we celebrate labor. We call it Labor Day weekend. Wait, is that what we are celebrating? I thought we were celebrating the end of the summer and it was a weekend to not think about work.

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Check Your Attitude About Labor

Labor – do we celebrate it? Do you celebrate it? No, not the giving birth kind of labor but the everyday work kind of labor. Do you celebrate the labor of your hands and mind? Do you recognize God’s hand in giving you labor as a gift? When you head off to work each day…or down the hall to your virtual office, are you celebrating or complaining?

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Jesus Worked The Family Business

It is not insignificant that Jesus was born to a family who had a small business. Carpentry. God could have put Jesus in any number of families but He chose one where the primary source of income to support the family was the small family business. You might find yourself asking why?

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Holy Moments

Is Holiness even possible today in the workplace? I read a book this weekend by Matthew Kelly, titled “The Biggest Lie in the history of Christianity”. In this book Mr. Kelly asserts that Christians don’t believe holiness is even possible today and that belief causes us to shrink back from trying to even make a difference. I agree with Mr. Kelly.

Mr. Kelly asserts that Holy Moments are possible every day as we encounter people, let’s apply that thought to our workplaces. I don’t think Mr. Kelly would mind.

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Put a Fish on it Part 2

Ask yourself this question: Do I need a fish symbol for people to know I am a Christian at work?

This cartoon really symbolizes some of the reasons for decline in the United States of America. Way too many Christians, including me early on in my marketplace career, have used a fish symbol to indicate their “conversion” instead of using a transformed heart that “Loves the Lord your God with all your heart, Mind and Soul and loves your neighbor as yourself”. Too much religion is about arrogance and rules and power. Jesus was all about bringing inner healing , “LIVING WATER” he said. He wasn’t about pomp and circumstance.

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