I've been in plenty of church meetings that seem to pit the "spiritual" people against the "practical."
This MBA student complains that work in business is not often seen as 'theologically okay.' But it should be.
"For many years my heart wasn't connected to the work that I did."
This passage from Ezekiel challenges me to consider how I am using the gifts God has given me. Am I exercising them...
Can you imagine the spiritual awakening in store for those who truly believed an infinitely loving God was accomplishing His purposes through...
Sometimes it seems like God is everywhere, except at work.
Not everything that happens in a church building is ministry.
Transcript Judy wanted most in life to serve the Lord! Should she quit her full-time job for full-time ministry? She earnestly asked God to show her what to do. The next week, in...
Transcript New England winters are cold and long. And in 1891, boys at Springfield College in Massachusetts were restless and rowdy. Enter James Naismith—athlete and P.E. teacher—with instructions to distract those boys. Now...
Have you ever wondered if what you're doing with your life and work are really worthwhile? Have you wanted to do something significant for God—to make your life really count?
For years I would say this very simple prayer every day before work.
After working as a parish priest for 15 years, Barbara Brown Taylor (www.barbarabrowntaylor.com) left her parish position to become a religion professor...
What comes to mind when you think of a minister? If you are like most people, you think about church buildings and pulpits, preachers and priests, missionaries and Bible school teachers.
Psalm 15 begins with the question of who may worship in God’s sanctuary. The answer: “Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right” (v. 2). Then the psalm lists examples of...
Earlier this month, we noted the claim of the wicked that “There is no God.” Today we find this same boast in Psalm 14. Given the widespread belief in divine beings in the...
The original language of Romans 6:13 is structured in a way that makes a powerful point, though this is sometimes lost in translation. It could be laid out in this way:Do not present...
In George MacDonald’s 1876 novel, Thomas Wingfold, Curate, (now reedited and republished as The Curate's Awakening), a chapter entitled "The Common-Place," introduces Mr. Drew, a dealer in cloth who refers to his shop...
Does work with "material", earthly things have value?
There is no support in Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the world is irredeemably evil and the...
A call to ministry or church work is no more sacred than a call to other types of work.
