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Maintaining Integrity in a Culture of Self-Promotion - Monica Busch (Podcast Episode 6)

Making It Work Podcast

How can you maintain integrity in a culture of self-promotion? A Christian at Facebook gives us a view from...

Winning and Losing at Work - Nate Proctor (Podcast Episode 31)

Making It Work Podcast

How do you cope with work when winning or losing feels like everything?

“How do I foster meaningful work relationships and influence workplace culture?” Webinar (Video)

Video

How do I foster meaningful relationships with my coworkers when I mostly talk about work-related topics? How can I...

The Levite’s Concubine: Human Depravity & The Complicity of Religious Authorities (Judges 18-21)

Bible Commentary

The final episode in Judges is the most appalling event in Israel’s long slide into depravity, idolatry, and anarchy....

The First Murder (Genesis 4:1-25)

Bible Commentary

Genesis 4 details the first murder when Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of angry jealousy. Both brothers bring the...

Receiving God’s Blessing of Productivity Means Respecting Co-workers (Ruth 2:8-16)

Bible Commentary

Prevention of harassment means not only creating a safe environment, but a productive one for those at risk. The...

The Economics of Radical Generosity (Acts 2:45; 4:34-35)

Bible Commentary

There is continuing debate about whether or not these community summaries advocate a certain economic system, with some...

The Call to Warn Others (Ezekiel 33)

Bible Commentary

Ezekiel chapters 18 and 33 serve similar thematic and structural functions within the book as a whole.[1]The call to...

Epilogue — Job’s Prosperity Restored (Job 42:7-17)

Bible Commentary

The final section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all....

Set Your Mind on Things Above: Heavenly Living for Earthly Good (Colossians 3:1–16)

Bible Commentary

This call to reorientation means that we reshape our lives to think and do according to Jesus’ ethics in situations he...

Jesus, the Image of the Invisible God (Colossians 1:15–29)

Bible Commentary

What difference does it make that we are bearers of the divine image in our work? One implication of this is that in our...

An Orienting Community That Practices the Ways of God’s Kingdom: Acts 2:42-4:32

Bible Commentary

After Peter announces the Spirit’s creation of a new kind of community, Acts traces the rapid growth of such...