Chris Patton takes some clues from those who serve as foreign missionaries, and applies it to his workplace. Here’s his plan: ...
Bob Robinson, who blogs at the (re)integrate, has a great reflection on the Incarnation and what it means for us in the workplace. ...
Every family has unique traditions around holidays, but especially when it comes to Christmas. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve? Attend a worship service? So many times it's the little details...
As a father, I love to hear my children sing. This would be true even if my kids couldn't stay on pitch...
Have you ever been in a prayer meeting when someone sneaks in some preaching into a prayer? I have, more times than I'd like to count. I think, for example, of a time...
People who get in my car notice the Bilbo Baggins action figure sitting in the console. With the inevitable grin, they ask...
Church leaders, have you wondered where to have your next meeting? Consider your local coffeehouse. ...
I pulled off the road along US Route 11 and into the parking lot of a no-name service station, the sort you’d expect for rural Virginia: dirty windows, questionable service—and people who made...
For years, I never understood my mom and step-dad’s television-watching arrangement. Though my mom doesn’t really like sports or hunting or wild...
In yesterday's reflection, I considered the implications of Paul's enthusiastic use of language when he prays that we will know God's power...
Words are fantastic tools for communication. But, sometimes our words fail us. When someone has done something unusually wonderful for us, "Thank...
By the time we were speeding west from Farmland, Indiana, to St. Louis and beyond in the borrowed red Mustang, my brother and I lived such separate lives that we could amuse one...
In yesterday's reflection, I began considering Paul's prayer that we might know "the riches of [God's] glorious inheritance in his holy people."...
In the introduction to Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Tim Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf share the story of Leaf by Niggle, a short story written by J.R.R. Tolkien.....
It’s always interesting to see how uncomfortable companies get this time of year. Many go to great extremes to make Christmas just another winter day, instead of a Christian High Holy day. ...
God owns all parts of life, all parts of reality. He’s not confined to the church. He owns the culture, government, the economic system, everything. We all nod and say that’s true. It’s...
Periodically, I get emails proclaiming good news. I have received a glorious inheritance. Someone formerly unknown to me has died and left...
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily...
Hope is in short supply these days. In this morning's newspaper, I read about growing tensions in the Middle East and the...
Do you say, "I'm just a salesman?" Or "I'm just an administrative assistant?" Do you feel as if your work really, truly...
