Who does your work serve? Getting to know them can help you grow in God's love.
Facing challenging customers and clients? God can help.
How do you cope with work when winning or losing feels like everything?
ServiceMaster is one of the great corporate stories of the 20th Century. The company grew from a...
How can you maintain integrity in a culture of self-promotion? A Christian at Facebook gives us a...
Dr. Eileen Burd discusses her work caring for the sick, especially Ebola victims, as part of the...
Fast food jobs have a greasy reputation in the modern economy. Most people don’t aspire to work in food service, even though...
Servant leadership may be a corporate buzzword, but few people know how to practice it at work. It’s more than just being...
Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above...
1 John 3:16-24 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our...
The Philippian Christians in Need of an Attitude Adjustment In the middle of the first century A.D., the Apostle Paul planted a...
Unless you’re living on a deserted island, you probably had a customer service transaction today. Did you look for God in that...
Lots of business advice out there today—even some of the advice we shared with you last week —is for people in charge...
My dad chooses to see work as life-giving instead of soul-draining.
Hairstylist Michele Van Fossen's calling is to listen to clients lives.
Unlike me, my daughter has natural administrative tendencies. I didn’t pass along those genes, but I did pass along one thing.
"If you're going to be successful in business, you've got to be willing to serve." Jean Bartell Barber is the Vice-Chairman of Bartell Drugs, the largest pharmacy chain in the Seattle area. Transcript...
I think most people embarking on careers in the market place, in the professional world, are fed or kind of come from...
In the first stave of Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t have much enthusiasm for Christmas.
Mark 15:43 introduces a man named Joseph, who was from Arimathea, a small town northwest of Jerusalem. He is identified as “an honored member of the high council.”
Have you ever been caught red-handed? I think of a time when, as a boy, I was playing baseball in the backyard...
Paul begins his letter to the Roman Christians by identifying himself as “a slave of Christ Jesus.”
During my childhood, Burger King told me, “Have it your way.” The catchy jingle meant that you could order your hamburgers according...
Jim’s employees loved his availability. A project running late? Jim made time to help. Personal problem? Jim made time to listen. Middle manager in a quandary? Count on Jim to sit down and...
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In all of my hustling to help everyone else look good and find value, I thought of myself more as a servant...
“In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’ ” Luke 17:10 Luke 17:7-10 is not one of those “gentle Jesus...
We all know they're out there, far across the oceans, or maybe even in our own backyards. Babies, toddlers, teenagers who for...
According to 1 Corinthians 13:4, love is "not jealous." What does it mean to be jealous?
Susan was a Christian, and her coworkers knew it. But how did they know? She rarely mentioned her faith. Her work was top-notch, of course. But her coworkers were sharp too. It was something...
Mark 2:1-12 paints a powerful picture of how you and I can care for the people in our lives who are suffering...
What comes to mind when you think of a minister? If you are like most people, you think about church buildings and pulpits, preachers and priests, missionaries and Bible school teachers.
Last Friday’s reflection was based on Romans 16:18. In this verse, the Apostle Paul criticized those who, in the guise of serving...
“We have been rescued from our enemies so we can serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness for as long as we live.” Luke 1:74-75 The Gospel of Luke begins with the...
The story of Abraham and Sarah’s generous hospitality to three visitors who came to them by the oaks of Mamre is told...
The first commandment reminds us that everything in the Torah flows from the love we have for God, which in turn is...
There are many ways to honor—or dishonor—your father and mother. In Jesus’ day, the Pharisees wanted to restrict this to speaking well...
Nehemiah’s wall-building project was threatened, not just from the outside, but also from the inside. Certain wealthy...
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...
Isaiah paints a picture of the values that must characterize the people of God.
As is typical with Twelve Prophets, the Book of Jonah begins with a call from God to the prophet (Jon. 1:1-2). Unlike...
The third beatitude puzzles many people in the workplace, in part because they don’t understand what it means to be meek. Many...
Max DePree, Leadership is an Art (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 9.
Jewish leaders in Jesus’ day often fought over the relative importance of commandments. Some held the view that observing the Sabbath was...
Jesus’ final teaching in this section examines how we treat those in need. In this account, when Jesus returns in his glory...
Work as Prayerful Relationships: Mark 5 (Click Here to Read) This sermon from The High Calling discusses another healing miracle of Jesus in Mark (5:1-20) where Jesus brings healing to both a wayward...
Our work can be a way of loving others if we work as God would have us do it.
When you're at work, who is your neighbor? How do you love them?
Learning to Save My Students Instead of Judging Them (Click Here to Read) An encounter with the words of Jesus in John 12 encourages a teacher to change his approach to his relationship...
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 next section of Acts moves the Christian community, by the power of the Spirit, across cultural barriers as the gospel of...
Most of all, Paul’s leadership is marked by his concern for others. He accepts the burden of leadership not to make his...
To bring the communal aspect of salvation to life means a reorientation of our minds and wills from self-serving to community-serving. Do...
Since our work is actually God’s work in us, our work should be worthy, as God’s work is. But apparently we have...
Stephen Colbert on Faith and Humor Stephen Colbert discusses how his faith intersects with his humor and why humor is an appropriate...
In speaking about wisdom, James begins to develop the principle that we can trust God to provide for us. “If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all...
Selfish Ambition Is the Impediment to Peacemaking (James 3:16–4:11) Selfish ambition is the opposite of serving the needs of others. The passage...
Use this book and the questions at the end of each chapter to spark discussion about calling.
This week we learned that human beings were made by God in his image. As human beings, we reflect who God is...
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