The COVID-19 pandemic presented many organizations with levels of uncertainty that they had never seen before. How do you lead with faith...
Have you found your passion at work? That perfect job that excites you to jump out of...
Today is Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent. It’s also Valentine’s Day! The two holidays needn’t be at odds with...
The Main Text: Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came...
Our bitter political season did not end with last year’s election. As the Presidential inauguration approaches, we’re all still trying to understand...
The Philippian Christians in Need of an Attitude Adjustment In the middle of the first century A.D., the Apostle Paul planted a...
Katherine Leary Alsdorf is Senior Fellow at the Faith, Work & Leadership Initiative at Redeemer City to City. In this interview with...
Unlike me, my daughter has natural administrative tendencies. I didn’t pass along those genes, but I did pass along one thing.
If Jesus had never been born and these words had never been spoken, imagine what life in this world would be like—hard, harsh, hypercritical, and judgmental. But Jesus did live, and he did...
Jesus warned that hypocrites pray before people, but his disciples were to pray to God. Specifically he said, “Pray to your Father...
How should the Incarnation impact our behavior in the Christian community? What does the fact that the...
Every now and then, God surprises us. I’m not thinking about daily gifts of grace, the little delights that come regularly and unexpectedly. Rather, I’m speaking of big surprises.
How long do I really have to figure it out? How long do I have to figure out how to live full...
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we are told, “Now when Jesus had finished...
Ash Wednesday is a day many Christians set aside as a special day. It is a day to remember our humanness and mortality. It is a day to begin the season of Lent...
When I was about four years old, all I wanted for Christmas was a cotton candy machine. I saw it advertised during Saturday morning cartoons and I was infatuated with it. I could...
Luke 1:46-55 is Mary's song of praise to God. It spills out of her heart after her relative Elizabeth, the expectant mother of John the Baptist, acknowledged her blessedness as the mother of Jesus....
Are you tired of volunteering to bake the cookies, calling the parent list, organizing the family reunion, loading the presentation into the computer, leading the workgroup and shoveling the...
Psalm 76 celebrates the justice and strength of God, who “breaks the pride of princes, and the kings of the earth fear him” (76:12). He is truly “glorious,” “even more majestic than the everlasting...
In my last post, I suggested that Paul begins to explain how we live out our calling...
In another post, I confessed my surprise over where Paul begins as he urges us to live...
Each person and each person's job is important—in the high calling of our daily work.
At the age of 14, Scott Mooney was bitten by the entrepreneur bug. He started selling horse equipment out of his father's barn, then from a rented a location on a main street...
Dr. Neil Clark Warren is not the type of person you think of when you hear the word, entrepreneur. He has degrees from prestigious schools, he was a counselor, writer and academic for...
Ken Duncan is one of the world’s most important landscape photographers. He and his wife, Pam, founded what today includes three galleries and a profitable Web site that sell Ken’s amazing photography, as...
Texas Nameplate was founded in 1946 and nearly 50 years later it was in deep trouble with its largest customers. Dale Crownover had taken the position of President and soon was hit with...
The days gradually take on more light and the birds begin their slow return.
I often read the story of the Good Samaritan imagining that one day I will display the kind of heroic behavior the...
Psalm 90 is a perfect psalm for the end of the year. For one thing, this psalm includes the word "year" more...
Every year, songwriters add new Christmas songs into the holiday mix. And, every year, most of those songs are quickly forgotten. If you check out the official ASCAP list of the most popular...
Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, and founded the Disney Empire. Once someone asked him, "How does it feel to be a celebrity?" ...
After two years of unemployment, my friend Mark finally landed a sales job. It’s not exactly what he had in mind as...
What is your glory? What is it that you value most in life? What is the thing about you that people are most likely to praise? Again I ask: What is your glory...
I always wanted to be extraordinarily good at something. Not just as in, “Great job, Jimbo!” No, I wanted to be best-in-class...
I thought about my son, Nathan, before he was born. I also prayed for him well before I knew that "he" was...
I am a sucker for superheroes. Every summer, the theaters fill up with the latest Spiderman, Batman, or Avenger. Most of the...
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Who can be compared with the LORD our God, who is enthroned on high? He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth. He lifts the poor from the dust and the...
“For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Luke 14:11 This passage from Luke...
When we pray for our leaders, as Scripture urges us to do, we should ask the Lord to lead them in the ways of truth, humility, and justice.
Then he said to them, “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes...
On my first day at Tulsa Central High School, I didn't know many kids. After bumping through the crowded halls on four floors, any self-confidence I had ever had vanished.
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson tapped on his keyboard and hit “send” on the first-ever email ... all the way across the room to a second computer in his lab.
Brent recently experienced "downward mobility." He was demoted. He had worked hard and long. But new owners had new ideas. And Brent was moved from a corner office to a cubicle—from a large...
Nothing beats an honest day's work, so the saying goes.
Through Isaiah, the Lord made known his plans to use Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to rebuild Jerusalem and its temple.
Finally Joseph had his chance. After years of being a slave, the last few in prison, he stood before Pharaoh, who praised Joseph for his ability to interpret dreams.
Fifty years ago in Montgomery, Alabama, an unassuming black woman decided that her dignity was nonnegotiable. Instead of relinquishing her seat to a white man and moving to the back of the bus, she...
I was half-way through facilitating an intensive 34-week Bible study class. One day, I received a phone call from one of the men in the class.
After his heroic work on behalf of humanity, Noah falls into a troubling domestic incident. It begins—as so many domestic and workplace tragedies do—with substance abuse, in this case alcohol. (Add alcoholic beverage...
A variety of attempts have been made to reduce the multitude of biblical commands to just a few overarching commands or principles. Some examples of this emphasize the importance of the Ten Commandments...
For Alexander Hill, “the foundation of Christian ethics in business is the changeless character of God.”[22] The commands or principles that humans should follow are defined by the character of God. Note that...
This article has been produced by a mixture of pastors and marketplace people and homemakers. We are very aware that, even as...
In Numbers 12, Moses’ brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam, try to launch a revolt against his authority. They appear to have...
When Elisha cures the leprosy of Naaman, a commander in the army of Israel’s enemy, Syria, it has important effects in the...
The final section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all. He...
Human life is a series of choices, and many of these involve vocation.
The proverbs commend modesty, both in attitude (avoid excessive pride) and in the use of money (avoid lavish spending). These virtues do...
More than any other writing prophet, Isaiah takes us repeatedly to a vision of God that, once grasped, will cause us to...
For an explanation of the themes in and structure of Daniel, see the section "The Big Picture...
The “poor in spirit” are those who cast themselves on God's grace.[1] We personally acknowledge our spiritual...
The third beatitude puzzles many people in the workplace, in part because they don’t understand what it means to be meek. Many...
Up to this point in John, we have seen Jesus doing work that no one else had ever done before — making water into wine, giving sight to the blind, raising the dead...
The following discussion falls a little out of order (skipping over Acts 19:17-20 for the moment) so that we can cover the...
Despite Paul’s utter conviction that he is in the right about both his beliefs and his conduct, he shows respect for everyone he encounters. This is so disarming, especially to those who are...
In Romans 9–11, Paul returns to the immediate problem the letter is meant to address—the conflict between Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since...
Since our work is actually God’s work in us, our work should be worthy, as God’s work is. But apparently we have...
“That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it!” Mel Brooks, The Producers (1968) “He made himself nothing…becoming a servant …he humbled...
Understand and apply the characteristics that Jesus calls "blessed."
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