The COVID-19 pandemic presented many organizations with levels of uncertainty that they had never seen before. How do you lead with faith...
Guests Maya Adolf and Jamie Sturm started an employee-led educational group to foster racial understanding in their workplace.
With the right focus, sermons on Ecclesiastes 2 can help Christians make sense of their working lives.
Guest Austin Channing Brown talks about faith, work and the invisible burden of being a black woman...
If Jesus wanted to visit you at work, would you ask for some other meeting place? Many workplaces feel like ungodly environments...
Psalm 139:7-12 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven...
A positive attitude begins with gratitude, as we remember God’s good gifts in the past and look forward to what he’ll do...
God slouches at the front of the universe leaning against his desk, taking roll with a red pen in his spiral book of life. He teaches every subject himself, every grade, every student...
It’s no secret: lots of people are searching for jobs right now. Some folks have lost their jobs. Others have jobs, but...
Robots on assembly lines. Cars that drive themselves. The gig economy. Political uncertainties. Economic downturns. The news is full of troubling predictions...
Racial reconciliation takes work, and it’s work that needs doing. Amidst tragedies and protests in places like Ferguson, Boston, Charleston, and New...
Maybe you once approached your job with joy and enthusiasm. You found your calling and you poured your life into it. Or...
Jesus doesn’t take away our fears, but he can transform them.
In Psalm 26, David defends his integrity before God. It’s likely that he composed this poem in response to an attack upon...
You can wrestle with God, you can struggle with God, but you will not have power over God to define who God is.
In what way does your occupation allow you to engage in the work of the imperishable kingdom?
Finding hope in the renewal of all things.
Rather than let my employment challenges drag me down, I’ve decided to take back the workplace for God’s glory, and I’m doing...
Psalm 56 begins with David’s cry for mercy because his enemies are attacking him. He implores the Lord to help him and to punish his opponents. Then, with striking imagery, David recognizes that...
My question stumped Susan, a diligent job seeker, over coffee that morning: “What do you care about that’s larger than you?”
I never thought finding a job would be so challenging.
The more we allow God's Word to shape our relationship with him, the more we reflect upon the wonder of the cross...
Growing up in the church, I always heard the opening verses of Psalm 121 as an invitation to gaze upon the mountains...
The LORD is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. For he knows how weak...
O LORD, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day. Psalm 88:13 Chances are you won’t hear...
Are you open to being surprised by God today? What helps you to have an open heart when God does the unexpected?
When you discover that your unmarried teen-age daughter is pregnant, you feel anger, grief, sorrow, and shame among other emotions.
Every now and then while I'm channel surfing on TV, I pause to listen to a preacher. And it's not uncommon to...
The beginning of Jeremiah 39 tells the sad tale of the fall of Jerusalem.
Chris threw down his bike and ran off with his friends. Minutes later, a repairman climbed into a truck, unaware of the boy's bike lying just behind his tire.The next sound was a...
Before sin ever entered the world, God created work to be a part of our experience.
In Psalm 81, the Lord invites Israel to receive the very best of his blessings. “Open your mouth wide,” he says, “and I will fill it with good things” (81:10). In order to...
Psalm 55:22 was one of the first verses of Scripture I memorized as a child: “Cast your burden on the LORD, and...
In yesterday’s reflection I talked about how the idea of God as father is difficult for many people because of their painful...
One Sunday morning while attending a church in the suburbs of Boston, I had a surprisingly authentic moment with a complete stranger.
So far in Romans, Paul has argued that all people fall short of God’s standards, both Jews and Gentiles. In light of...
Thus, the Lord is David’s glory in a double sense. David lives for God’s own glory, and God glorifies David, his faithful servant.
Years before this episode in Genesis 32, Jacob had fled from his home because his brother, Esau, was plotting to kill him. During his sojourn in a distant land, Jacob was blessed by...
The basement was dark, damp, musty—a forbidding place where my mother kept our canned fruits and vegetables. As a young boy I dreaded, "Gary, would you please go down to the basement . . .?" Was...
I had failed. Driving home, I shook my head: how could I have let people down like this?
Joseph and Pharaoh lavishly gave Joseph’s brothers “the best of all the land of Egypt” (Genesis 45:20) and supplied them for their...
The final section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all. He...
What can be done with a world of people separated from God by idolatry and from one another by judgment? God’s true...
God is for us, says Paul, having given his own Son for “all of us” (Rom. 8:31–32). Nothing is able to come...
