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December 20th – Obstacle Course
Taking It to Work: What times in your life did you grow mentally, spiritually or physically stronger? How about intellectually stronger? Good teachers know, and I have had many. They push, they challenge, they pile on the work stretching your mind to think, reason, and understand. I’ve had good coaches […]
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December 19th – God’s Law vs. Murphy’s Law
Taking It to Work: We are all familiar with Murphy’s law. It’s the pessimistic law that seems to apply to anything and everything. It’s why when you drop a piece of toast, it’s going to land butter-side down, or why the other line or the other lane, always moves faster. […]
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December 18th – U-Turn Permitted
Taking It to Work: When can you get somewhere faster, by stopping and going in the opposite direction? The answer: whenever you have made a wrong turn. In the story of the prodigal son, that son made a very wrong turn, and his best way forward, was to go back. […]
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December 17th – The Perfect Judge
Taking It to Work: We all can forget very quickly that we were not always like we are now. I remember myself. I was an arrogant and self-focused teen, with little regard for others. Even after I gave my life to Christ, it took years for my behavior to truly […]
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December 12th – Just For You? Yes!
Taking It to Work: The Lord is pleased when we give whole-heartedly to Him. Whether it be through generosity of our time, money or talent, producing fruit with Him and those things He has blessed us with, brings Him joy. In John 15, after explaining how important it is to […]
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December 11th – Telling Stories
Taking It to Work: It’s easy to forget that the kind of worker we are, reflects the kind of person we are to others. When we work, we are unknowingly telling a story of who we are. People are always watching, and if we claim to be a Christian, sometimes […]
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December 10th – One Less Storm
Taking It to Work: I was just talking in my FCCI group this morning, where about a half dozen of us business leaders get together for a weekly meeting of how to lead in our companies for maximum Kingdom impact. We were talking about trials in the workplace. It turns […]
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December 9th – First Things First
Taking It to Work: Do you remember the first subject God spoke of when he gave the commandments to Moses? How about the answer from Jesus when the Pharisees asked Him what was the greatest, most important commandment? The answer: Nothing is to be higher than God in our lives. […]
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December 6th – In His Season
Taking It to Work: Just out of school, I was happy for my job. I did my best for my bosses along the way, but the high expectations that came with senior responsibility, company growth and eventually retirement planning were not near as important as they have become lately. Similarly, […]
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December 5th – Clearing the Bar
Taking It to Work: The message today may seem more personal in nature than workplace oriented, speaking more directly to the true position of our heart with God than maybe our disposition at work. But in reality, they are very closely related. Challenging Sunday messages and the scriptures that we […]
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December 4th – Grace Full
Taking It to Work: Who do you work with that, “rubs you the wrong way”? Maybe they are bossy, loud, or lazy. Maybe they are arrogant, rude or vulgar. Whatever the case might be, they also may be future brothers or sisters in Christ whom God wants to extend grace, […]
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December 3rd – Glitter Bombs
Taking It to Work: I don’t know if this is Christ-like, but I love this guy, Mark Rober on YouTube. He puts packages on people’s porches as bait for these crooked thieves, known as Porch Pirates, who routinely steal other people’s packages from outside their homes. Mark very professionally and […]
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December 2nd – The Threat of Truth
Taking It to Work: The TRUTH of God’s Word is mighty. For centuries, actually for millennia, the ungodly have feared the truth in the pages of our Bible, and that same truth when it’s on our lips. History shows, it is the truth of God that changes lives, displaces error, […]
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November 29th – A Little Appreciation
Taking It to Work: In general, it is not until later in life that a son or daughter will truly appreciate what was done for them when they lived at home with their parents – Mom’s lasagna, Dad’s help with fixing things, family vacations, new school clothes, free A/C and […]
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November 28th – A Thankful Heart
Taking It to Work: I have often considered why I like dogs better than cats, and I think it is biblical. I know this might be disturbing to some cat lovers out there, but bear with me. I’ve noticed this same logic applies to my children, and also to most […]
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November 27th – Put on Peace
Taking It to Work: It seems that there is an art to living peaceably with others. There is also an art to sharing truth with others in a non-offensive way. There is also an art to knowing when we should share, and when it is prudent not to, even if […]
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November 26th – Growing With Gratitude
Taking It to Work: How many times have you said to yourself, “I want to be stronger in my spiritual walk; I want to grow”? We all desire it, but we have all experienced times in our lives when we let our time with God, which brings about a huge […]
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November 25th – Skills of the Trade
Taking It to Work: What did you have to do to get good at your job? If you’re like most of us, you had to put time into honing your skills. That may have been through education, a trade school or college, or it may have been just years of […]
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November 22nd – Let’s Talk About It
Taking It to Work: Before FCCI, I remember I had a desire to talk about my faith at work, as I felt bad for the good men and women I worked with who were living life without any thought of God. But I was fearful, not only of rejection, but […]
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November 21st – Bloom Where You’re Planted
Taking It to Work: There is an old saying, that we should, “bloom where we are planted.” Although not a direct quote from the Bible, I do believe the Bible supports the concept. In Jeremiah 29, where so many Israelites were exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon (a horrible situation if […]