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: You may think that personal struggles and our professional lives should not mix. Maybe in some aspects that might be true, but in reality, they tend to mix anyway, even when you don’t want them to. Today’s devotional talks about the tendency we all have to excuse ourselves in the weakest areas of our lives. We Read more…
Taking It to Work: Do we need faith at work? Believe it or not, yes. Unfortunately though, for the most part, we can get away without it. I think that is one of the reasons why, for many, that work and faith are not naturally integrated. Our work world on Monday can seem a million miles away from the scriptures Read more…
Taking it to Work: In the workplace, as well as at home, our performance counts. If we’re tired, or hungry, or too full, or suffering from too much pressure, the bottom can drop right out of our game, and the top performance we are capable of, will never come to be. Even with a double shot espresso and a good Read more…
Taking It to Work: In 1912, in the name of advancing trust and integrity in the marketplace, the Better Business Bureau was formed. Now consisting of 106 independently incorporated local BBB organizations, the mission of keeping businesses honest carries on. Why was such an organization needed? One word explains it all: Scammers! I remember seeing an undercover video of a Read more…
Taking it to Work: Today’s devotional is based out of Ps 69:1 where David is up to his neck in trouble, and is calling out to God, and Matthew 11 where our Lord Himself is trying convince us to let Him carry some of our burden. As children of the King, we are not meant to run our race on Read more…
Taking it to Work: Church on Sunday . . . work on Monday. What is the difference between those two days? In God’s eyes -absolutely nothing, but in our eyes, we often separate the two as being very different. Sunday is held sacred, but Monday is something far less sacred than Sunday, and sometimes our attitudes, words and actions reflect Read more…
Taking It to Work: Many moons ago, I accepted a job, where to this day, I believe it was a complete set-up from the Lord. The job was way over my head. I didn’t have near the experience or qualifications for doing the job, but somehow or another God arranged some incredible circumstances, and arranged some people (people who thought Read more…
Taking It to Work: Many of us feel overly consumed, spread thin as we are pulled everyday to the many responsibilities that we find on our ever-growing list. We feel torn, as we want to take on less to be a little more balanced, but we want to be productive too, so saying, “No” to more is sometimes difficult. Add Read more…
Taking It to Work: Has it ever struck you that many of our bible heroes, those names that we are most familiar with, seem to have had very little problem with hearing the voice of God? Philip in Acts had no deliberations, or at least none recorded, where he was wrestling with whether he really heard from God through an Read more…