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 out, one of the common denominators in the discussion was Read more
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. Anything that we serve, worship or honor that comes before Read more
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, one of the best things about when I was a Read more
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 have today in this devotional, set a very high bar. Read more
Taking It to Work: I often think we must look like perpetual teenagers to God. I’ve raised a few of them now, and there is a common desire in each of them for independence from their parents. Some personalities show it a bit stronger than others, but especially in my boys, the late teen years are when the desire for Read more
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, through you! We have to remember that we all rubbed Read more
Taking It to Work: I don’t know if this is Christ-like, but I love this guy, Mark Rober on YouTube, that puts packages on people’s porches as bait for these crooked thieves, known as Porch Pirates, that routinely steal other people’s packages from outside their homes. Mark very professionally and ingeniously puts mechanisms in the package that once the package Read more
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, yearly family vacations, new school clothes, free A/C and heat, clean sheets and a refrigerator that seemed to fill Read more
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, disarms enemies, and releases God’s power into the world. If Read more
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 on the job training. Regardless, those years of dedication, your Read more