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God’s people cannot help but exhibit the kingdom of God to the world around them.
Whether or not we realize it, we often give to gain. What if we thought differently about giving and gaining and how we view others? What if we gave to people who have...
As we traveled across the city to a home for disabled children, I tried to prepare my kids for what we were...
Bob was a route salesman for Dr Pepper. He shared a story about my dad’s early days as head of a growing grocery chain. Bob set up special displays in those stores.
What I learned from a cancer center doorman and the US Navy’s chief.
My desire changes as I walk with Jesus, closer to his suffering and mercy. He is better. The reach toward this small patch of dirt has become my want.
John Gardner, late President of the Carnegie Foundation, once said something about excellence that has stayed with me. He said, "The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is..."
Do you feel like you’re stealing God’s praise if you say “thank you” when complimented for doing good work?
At her new job, Sue quickly caught on to the daily lunch conversation: barbecued bosses with a side of cut-up coworkers. ...
We tend to value work based on either how much money it earns or how much prestige it carries with it. Is that how God sees it? The Gospels seem to suggest otherwise.
We may be carrying something priceless without even realizing it!
Entertainer Bruce Springsteen’s music has always dignified the ordinary circumstances of life. He told The New York Times, “I felt that I saw a nobility in people. Not the kind you read in...
Author James McDermott recalls when he was a young boy at the train station. He saw a man on a departing train fiddling with his pipe. As the man waved goodbye, he removed...
Church leaders, rightly, have a primary thing on their mind: The mandate to see people come to salvation in Christ. Church programs...
When you grow up as the child of a pastor, there’s a certain expectation you will either become wild and wicked, landing yourself on the church prayer list every week, or you will...
While I was speaking to a gathering of young professionals, one of them raised his hand and said, “I am struggling to understand why anything in my normal routine matters. I know why...
This week we’ve been exploring the relationship between our church lives and our vocational lives and it’s been encouraging to see the...
It had been a weekly tradition for years. A circle of friends, lifting up our burdens together. One asked for prayer for her toddler’s health, another for an ailing grandmother, and yet another,...
In yesterday's reflection, we saw that the old self we are to put off as Christians is...
In 2012 and 2013, I helped to lead a “Vocation Infusion Learning Community” composed of church leaders from 15 congregations nationwide. Our...
