Taking It to Work: Life, even to the most brilliant biologists, is still a mystery. There is an unseen miracle that differentiates life from death. And although they are both around us constantly, we don’t stop to consider how clearly they point to God. The common teaching in the schools today is that life itself was just a happenstance, an Read more…
Taking It to Work: One of my favorite movies of all time is, “Frequency”. Very rarely do you come across a Hollywood movie that has a great storyline, action, suspense, good morals, clean language, and pretty decent acting. It even stars Jim Caviezel, the same actor who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ”. Anyway, it’s Read more…
Taking It to Work: I’ll be honest; sometimes I envy those who are not held to God’s high standards. They’re just people living for themselves, and doing whatever they deem necessary to make things work out for them. I’ve known supervisors and coworkers who have done some pretty shady stuff, but it doesn’t really bother them, as long as they Read more…
Taking It to Work: Here’s a hard question for you. Are you someone who uplifts the people around you, in general, or are you, in general, a “Debbie Downer”? I know we are all a little of both sometimes, but it is a good biblical question to ask of ourselves. I remember a Peanuts episode where a small rain cloud Read more…
Taking It to Work: In the workplace, we are often rewarded for good performance. Bonuses, profit sharing, and commissions are commonplace and widely acceptable across the globe. The rewards for hard work, perseverance and dedication are hallmarks of successful careers and companies, and are a mainstay of how managers let individuals like us know we’ve done a good job. It Read more…
Taking it to Work: The word sacrifice, unless your a baseball player, is not a very popular word. I don’t even think the batter that hits the “sacrifice fly” is real happy with his pop-up, but at least it comes with an RBI (a run-batted-in for you non-baseball fans). There is a big difference between a sacrifice in baseball, and Read more…
Taking It to Work: How do you define “power”? Google has eight different definitions, but the one that is most “powerful” to me, is “the ability to influence or create change.” It make sense. When we say a cannon is more powerful than a BB gun, we are really talking about the amount of “change” that will occur when each Read more…
Taking It to Work: It may be more commonplace than we would like to admit, but we don’t always work as hard for our boss as we might let on. Daydreaming, surfing the web, extending the lunch hour, reading and sending personal texts or emails; all erode the effort we should have applied to that hour in which we agreed Read more…
Taking It to Work: How many times have you been in a tough spot? A spot you were very worried about, but with your effort and God’s help you got through it. For me, those times are innumerable. I have written a few of them down over the years in my journals, especially when I really saw God’s hand move, Read more…
Taking It to Work: Rules. As a kid, we didn’t like them. As we grow, we see the true utility of rules. The fact that everyone knows what side of the road to drive on, that a red light always means stop, and green means go. These are good rules or laws that keep order, and also often keep us Read more…