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September 15th – The Great Consultant
Taking It to Work: When I was a young engineer, I was assigned a problem. It was an intermittent issue with a bare wire that sometimes shorted against a metal cover of a torpedo. The design was such that we could not put an insulator in-between the cover, and for radio frequency reasons, we could…
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September 14th – Patience Like His
Taking It to Work: One of the most incredible aspects of God, and one I am going to lay on my face and thank Him for profusely when I see Him face to face, is His patience with me. Out of all His displays of love . . . His patience and forgiveness toward me…
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September 11th – Details, Details, Details
Taking It to Work: Personally, sometimes I hesitate to bother my boss with details. I know he is busy, and it seems often I should be able to take care of things myself. It could also be pride, in the fact that I want to look competent and not needy. After all, being independent and…
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September 10th – Trust and Obey
Taking It to Work: The passage from Luke is a very sobering, rhetorical question posed to us by Jesus – ‘Why do we call Him Lord, if we insist on doing our own thing?’ Humans, in general, are very stubborn, and self-assured. Even after our promise to follow Him as our all-knowing Lord, we still…
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September 9th – The Trained Ear
Taking It to Work: Do you have a trained ear? When one of my boys was younger, I was waiting for a school concert to start where he played the bari-sax. As I sat listening to the kids warm-up, which sounded more like a traffic jam than a warm-up, I was amazed when the band…
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September 8th – Check the Oil
Taking It to Work: We’ve got an old 1969 Jeep CJ-5. It has an almost-bulletproof engine nicknamed, “The Dauntless V6”. It’s a tough engine, but it had to be prematurely rebuilt a few years ago because my boys forgot to keep the oil topped off as they ran back and forth to school on a…
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September 4th – Going Deeper
Taking It to Work: I am a fisherman, and I love going out on the open ocean. I can sit for hours looking out over that beautiful, blue expanse. Sea turtles, deep water dolphin, flying fish, and when we lived down in Mexico for a while, whales, huge fin whales that would be close enough…
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September 3rd – Why Didn’t I Win
Taking It to Work: The world’s system rewards the powerful and the wealthy. In the professional world, it is talent and accomplishment that get you noticed. Leaders are honored and esteemed, and the highest positions are reserved for those who have made the most out of their opportunities. The four scriptures chosen today are the…
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September 2nd – Know It All
Taking It to Work: We live in an age where it can be embarrassing to say, “I don’t know.” At work we may feel inadequate if we don’t know the answer. As Christians we may feel that we need to have all the answers about our faith, God and all the mysteries of life. The…
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September 1st – Glory Story
Taking It to Work: Did you realize that the human race thrives on story telling? From grade-schoolers gathering for grandpa’s war stories, to the hundreds of streaming reels, shorts and stories online, to the over $150 billion that was spent last year in the film industry; we as a people love stories. Fact, fiction or…
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August 31st – Rock Solid
Taking It to Work: I had a coworker in my earlier days who wore the same, exact outfit every day. Ray was an older gentlemen who was an ex-military, no-nonsense, get-‘er-done kind of person. He hated inefficiency and waste, and many years prior had decided that deciding what to wear everyday was part of that…
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August 28th – Good Response
Taking It to Work: A cornered wolf acts deceptively similar to an outright aggressive wolf – bared teeth, wild swinging claws, loud and threatening barks or growls. An untrained eye could easily mistake one for the other. While shouting may prompt an aggressive wolf to reconsider, flicking the nose of a cornered wolf in order…
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August 27th – Racing Right Past
Taking It to Work: I have said many times that I am just too busy. I am sure those same words have danced in your mind a time or two. Typically, when I verbalize those thoughts, it is when I am asked to do something unplanned or inconvenient. It actually may be something I would…
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August 26th – Bragging Rights
Taking It to Work: There is a very big difference between owning and managing a company, and managing a company like you own it. A good manager will be one who runs it with an owner’s mentality. In the owner’s absence he will manage it in a way that benefits the owner, but when he…
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August 25th – Are You in Timeout?
Taking It to Work: There is a common false teaching out there that says that God will never bring calamity or hardship in your life. It only takes a little bible study to know that this teaching is wrong, just like we would all agree that a father should teach and discipline his children when…
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August 24th – Lightning
Taking It to Work: We have a common enemy who wants us to feel hopeless in tough situations, whispering in our minds thoughts that are not true, and are meant to drag us down. Even the most spiritually strong people you know fight these dark thoughts at times. Our response? Reach for the Light. The…
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August 21st – May I Call You Captain?
Taking It to Work: Do you have what it takes to be a good captain? To be called a sea captain, you must study and pass an array of written tests. It is expected that you would know the rules of seamanship, and the complexities of how to pilot your vessel. You would understand anchoring,…
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August 20th – Spiritual Discernment
Taking It to Work: Bernie Madoff died just a few years ago. He made himself infamous across the globe for executing the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, worth almost $65,000,000,000. He follows in the footsteps of Charles Ponzi himself, who made himself rich “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” and I’m sure before him there were thousands…
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August 19th – Running With the King
Taking It to Work: In the workplace we are constantly being reviewed for our performance. Often our pay and position change, based on the strengths and weaknesses that show up on our evaluations, usually in direct comparisons to others. Hopefully, we move up in the rankings over time, but sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we run…
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August 18th – Good Work
Taking It to Work: Accomplishment, it’s truly one of the joys of life. Whether is it putting together the deal of a lifetime, finishing the garage, or successfully hosting friends for dinner, there is an unmistakable internal reward in a work well done, IF you take the time to feel good about it, to celebrate…