How do you foster a healthy work culture with a diverse team? Our guest is a mediator, conflict consultant, and international education...
Are you facing a problem in your work that feels like it's too big for you to solve? How do you find...
Have you found your passion at work? That perfect job that excites you to jump out of...
How can you experience joy in your work when you're working a job that you don't like?
With the right focus, sermons on Ecclesiastes 2 can help Christians make sense of their working lives.
God rejoices when his people are made whole. Our joys become his joys.
Advent is a season of preparation for celebrating the birth of the Savior. The main mood of Advent is one of serious...
I can still remember Mrs. Merrill calling the first-graders to worship in the Sunday School of Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Quoting from the King James version of prophet Habakkuk, Mrs. Merrill...
Gracious God, thank you for being the source of my joy.
About five years ago, I heard a phrase that I had never heard before: "earnest money." When...
When my wife became pregnant with our second child, she and I were overjoyed.
We live in a society of mockers. People who mock consider themselves better than others. They do not enter into serious engagement...
The bulk of Psalm 144 deals with David's role as king. He praises God for the help God has given him and he asks for more of it.
Psalm 126 begins with a joyful remembrance of a time when God "brought back his exiles to Jerusalem" (126:1).
See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea. Psalm 104:26 Psalm 104 celebrates God the...
I spent several days last week surrounded by writers, artists, musicians and poets. It was the Writer’s Retreat at Laity Lodge, in Texas, my second year attending. This is a stark contrast from...
My wife and I hadn't talked in days. I was in a depressed state of exhaustion and anger after months of unusual hours.
Several years ago I found myself in a bit of a career funk. I was restless, annoyed, and generally prone to a good deal of whining. Conveniently, I had given the whole mess...
There’s a bright yellow band of construction tape blocking the administrative entrance to my company’s main building. Apparently killer icicles are hanging from the roof line forty feet above, threatening to bludgeon unassuming...
When have you felt really, really joyful? When have you been so full of gladness that you just couldn't keep it inside?
Today is Mardi Gras. Many of us associate Mardi Gras with lavish and lascivious celebrations in places such as New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro. Not the sort of thing you’d expect to...
A few weeks ago, I noted in a reflection that buses in Britain are displaying signs that read: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The British atheists and...
In his first letter to a church (1 Thess.), St. Paul identified the Christian journey’s four great words: faith, hope, love, and joy. ...
Find Joy in Every Task (Click to Watch) Joe T. Garcia’s is a busy restaurant and considered an icon in Fort Worth, Texas. Lanny Lancarte and his wife Jodi are part of the...
In Song 1:9-2:7, the man and woman sing of their devotion to each other. He speaks of how beautiful she is, and...
Love is sacred and a thing to be protected. It cannot be bought (Song 8:7). The woman compares her love life with her husband to her tending of a vineyard (Song 8:12), asserting...
Joy is the next means of building relationships that Paul discusses. “I do not mean to imply that we lord it over...
Remembering significant events on an annual basis is something as old as humankind.
Week 1 introduces the congregation to the series on Ruth, as well as to the concept of Whole Life Discipleship. Senior Pastor...
This is the first sermon in the series: “Inspired: The Whole of Life with God in the Picture.” It was delivered by...
This content is part of the Ruth and Parables curriculum, an 11-week integrated sermon and small group series on faith and work...
Work with Contentment - Lessons from Ecclesiastes When teaching seminary students to preach, it is key that future pastors learn to speak...
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