Do you ever feel inadequate to speak of your faith?
“But now I am sending for many fishermen who will catch them,” says the LORD. “I am sending for hunters who will hunt them down in the mountains, hills, and caves.” Jeremiah 16:1...
Think about the people around you in your daily work. How can you pray for them?
Given advances in transportation and communication, and given the mobility of peoples throughout the globe, our world today is surely the most multicultural in all of human history. But the Roman...
Romans 12:1 urged us to present our bodies to God as a living sacrifice. As Christians, we honor God by living for him each day, devoting our bodies to his purposes. Romans 12:2 begins with a...
What will help us to have confidence in the Good News, even when our culture urges us to feel ashamed?
In our time of history, the Good News of Christ is once again being mocked as foolish.
This verse from Isaiah is doubly shocking.
The greatest communication success story in history is how the gospel spread across the Mediterranean world.
In the spring of 1983, during my last semester of seminary, I accepted a position with Young Life.
A wise woman once found a precious stone in a stream. The next day, she met a traveler who was hungry. When she opened her bag to share her food, the hungry traveler...
What if we truly believed Jesus’ words about sharing the gospel with others?
Studies show that up to 90 percent of people in a given congregation who come to Christ as adults, do so because of a relationship with one or more Christians outside the four...
Christians of every era are called to be Christ’s ambassadors. An ambassador is a personal envoy sent from the head of a...
What does it look like to be Christ’s ambassador at work—to serve Christ at work and represent him there? While none of...
The first task of ambassadors of Christ in the workplace is to do our work with excellence—because our competence weighs in heavily...
Character is a second prerequisite for spiritual influence. Every human being is created in God’s image, and instinctively respects the character traits...
First of all, God’s mission is to inspire people to work with the materials he provides to bring forth new and good...
When it comes to answering the question, ‘Does our work matter to God?’ most churches say yes. But they give different answers...
What are we to make of this mix of good and ill, meaning and vanity, action and ignorance, which the Teacher finds in life and work? Work is a “chasing after wind,” as...
