How do you cope with work when winning or losing feels like everything?
How do we escape from the comparison trap? Guest Tim Bongiovanni is a Billboard-charting music producer who is very aware of the...
“The goal is not to grow an organization—it’s to build the Kingdom of God.” Now, if you’ve...
Sports are fun to watch and fun to play. (Except, perhaps, if you’re a Chicago Cubs fan. Until this year!) The Bible...
Two stock car drivers—Chris Ater and Dillon Smith—were archrivals.
As we waited for the lights to dim for a showing of the latest Warren Miller ski film a couple sat down...
Sportscaster Frank Deford was a young reporter in the New York Yankees' locker room. He observed the legendary newspaper writer, Dick Young, interview a player. He saw Young shouting obscenities...
A lawyer complains that work is often a zero sum game.
Vince Lombardi was a football coach who led his Green Bay Packers to five NFL Championships. He was a stern disciplinarian who hated to lose. Sometime in the 1960s, after a hard-fought victory,...
Competition is a fact of everyday work. But is it godly for Christians to compete? Or is it something we should try to avoid as much as possible? Should we use whatever influence...
Competition occurs whenever there is choice. If buyers have a choice of which products to buy and from whom to buy them...
Engaging in economic competition seems to be permissible in the Bible. The description of the godly woman in Proverbs 31 praises her...
Although competition underlies economic choice and its many benefits, competition also lies behind many ills that befall individuals and society. The cause...
We have seen that competition is essential, yet it can also hurt people. The Bible recognizes both of these facts. It accepts—and...
What does it mean to cooperate? It might be defined as coordinating our activities with one another toward a shared end. This...
A well-structured marketplace shaped by ethical competition also reduces economic conflict by encouraging value creation – that is, work and economic exchange...
Surprisingly, vigorous competition helps, rather than harms, the competitors themselves. If Honda delivers more value to customers, that will force Ford to...
So far, we have been describing cooperation and competition in God’s original design – what they would look like if we still...
One way of summing up the practical imperative of ethical competition would be this: As much as you can, let the pressures...
As Christ-followers in a fallen world, we are called to love, and therefore work for the benefit of, our households, customers and...
The proverbs do not stop with commending generosity but go further to claim that caring for the poor is a matter of...
Jonah disobeys God’s call because he objects to God’s intent to bless Israel’s adversaries, the nation of Assyria and its capital city...
If you are blessed with sorrow for your own failings (the second beatitude) and with right relationships (the fourth beatitude), you will...
Do Good to Those Who Hate You (Luke 6:27-36) All workplaces experience conflict. In Luke 6:27-36, Jesus addresses situations of conflict. “Love...
To bring the communal aspect of salvation to life means a reorientation of our minds and wills from self-serving to community-serving. Do...
Case study: An employer’s struggle The August management meeting for Big Outdoors Ltd was in progress. A review of the winter sales...
Few Christians would argue that competition is entirely good. We have all seen too many excesses to affirm the competitive drive out-of-hand – including plenty in the Scriptures. The Bible narrative has barely...
Competition is a fact of everyday life.
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