Search results for: "sacred vs. secular" (71)

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Howard E. Butt, Jr.

Blog

Remembering the life, work, and ministry of Howard E. Butt, Jr., who died Saturday, September 11, 2016.

Paradise High

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God slouches at the front of the universe leaning against his desk, taking roll with a red pen in his spiral book of...

Play Games for God?

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St. Charles Borromeos was one night with a group of people playing chess. This was a social evening; they sat playing...

CEO Ron Johnson Asks: Who Is My Neighbor at Work? (Video)

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Apple's former SVP says: It's the person in the cubicle next to  you, your employee who reports to  you, your...

Business Leaders and Pastors in Partnership

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Nehemiah needed Ezra and Ezra needed Nehemiah. Andy Mills shares how a Theology of Work Project resource helps clarify...

Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide (Nehemiah 1:1-1:10)

Bible Commentary

The connection between the temple and the wall is significant for the theology of work. The temple might seem to be a...

Elisha’s Restoration of a Lumberjack’s Axe (2 Kings 6:1-7)

Bible Commentary

Cutting wood along the bank of the Jordan River, one of Elisha’s fellow prophets loses an iron axe head into the...

The Prophet Elisha’s Attention to Ordinary Work (2 Kings 2-6)

Bible Commentary

Many of Elisha's miracles restored people's capacity to work fruitfully.

Participating in God’s work (Psalm 113)

Bible Commentary

Psalm 113 informs us “from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised”...

Offering God the Products of Our Work (Numbers 4 and 7)

Bible Commentary

The Lord gives detailed instructions for setting up the tent of meeting, the location of his presence with Israel. The...

God Meant All for Good (Genesis 50:15-21)

Bible Commentary

The penitent words of the brothers led Joseph to one of the finest theological points of his life and, indeed, much...

God Sees that His Work Is Good (Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31)

Bible Commentary

There is no support in Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the world is...