Taking It to Work: The most difficult thing, and arguably the most critical thing, about living out our life as a Christian is actually having a real, working faith. I have often wondered why God does not make His presence known more clearly to those He loves. Why does He often seem silent or distant when we need Him the Read more…
Taking It to Work: I have a self-diagnosis of two simultaneous conditions that hinder me greatly in appreciating all in which God has blessed me. I’m sharing this, because I just might not be alone! What are those dual conditions? Tunnel Vision and Speeding Train Syndrome, neither of which help me to slow down enough to see the things that Read more…
Taking It To Work: Omnipotence. It means all powerful. Not just very powerful, it means possessing and having at His disposal all existent power. It means nothing is out of his control, past, present or future. Without exception, everything is in His complete command. It is what every tyrannical leader in history was after, and what many world leaders are Read more…
Taking It to Work: Our God is a God of order. Look at His creation. There is order in everything around us. We can look out to the farthest reaches of space, and then look in our own backyard, and order is all we see. The entire cosmos works together unaided, like a perfect timepiece that needs never to be Read more…
Taking It to Work: What we get paid is important. We work for a paycheck . . . most of us anyway, and the amount of money we get for each hour or week or month is something most people track, at least to some extent. We don’t want to feel undervalued, and a healthy paycheck can make the hard Read more…
Taking It to Work: We have heard it many times, “There is strength in numbers.” It’s true in every corner of the animal kingdom, in the kingdoms of men, and it is also true in the Kingdom of God. We are better, stronger, smarter, and usually behave a lot better when we are surrounded by other strong followers of Christ. Read more…
Taking It to Work: Our Father in heaven is pleased to see His reflection in us. That reflection is not just one of love, grace and mercy, but one of inner strength. When we look at the life of Jesus, we remember the stories of His love, grace and mercy, and we also remember the great stand against Satan in Read more…
Taking It to Work: Our relationship with an all-knowing God gives us access to His great, counseling Spirit. There is no problem too hard in our life, including our work life, that He can’t help us with. We have been taught that, right? He is the Lord of our life, and much of our life is spent in the workplace. Read more…
Taking It to Work: Our culture loves a superhero, one who can muscle through adversity, defeat resistance from all sides, and make sure the bad guys get it in the end. The story is even better if you start as the disadvantaged underdog, and end up on top – but that’s just the movies. You know what happens in the Read more…
Taking It to Work: Our devotional today talks about our very jobs being a distraction to eternal productivity. It is easy to get pulled into the “busy”. It is said that staying busy is easy, but staying productive is difficult. It can be that way both in a purely secular career, and also in the Kingdom. Now here at FCCI, Read more…