Taking It to Work: How do you look at challenges? Are they something you dread, or something you love? For most of us it can go either way. We may like a good challenge on the tennis court, softball field or golf course, and we may even like challenges at Read more…
Taking It to Work: There is a common path that God has put most of us on, that often we don’t see clearly. It involves three very top-level steps that are so large and long in duration, that they don’t even feel connected. Let’s call them school, work life, and Read more…
Taking It to Work: It’s hard to believe that when we give our lives to God, we become so much more than who we were. We still look the same, and feel almost the same, but our faith says something different. We become a new person, empowered by the God Read more…
Taking It to Work: There is a common path that God has put most of us on, that often we don’t see clearly. It involves three very top-level steps that are so large and long in duration, that they don’t even feel connected. Let’s call them school, work life, and Read more…
Taking It to Work: Last Sunday everybody was celebrating Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. By Monday he was turning over tables in the temple, and being grilled about His authority. Tuesday He spoke purposely, but not so clearly, to his disciples about the end times. He emphasized being prepared. There’s Read more…
Taking It to Work: When I was sixteen, the Lord arranged that my first full-time job was one with a small air-conditioning company where my boss and his wife were practicing Christians. In retrospect, I’d say she practiced it a lot better than he did, but for a young man Read more…
Taking It to Work: There were some incredibly hard choices made by men and women in our Bible, but maybe because we have heard the stories so many times before, the choices don’t come across so incredible…but they indeed were. Think of the story of those three young men, Shadrach, Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: I am pleased with faith. As a father is pleased with a son who trusts him, or a daughter who desires his strength, so am I pleased with the child who walks according to faith. Trust is the essence of faith, but where there is Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: In great challenge there is great victory. In your home and in work, I give you this great fuel of growth. No man grows quicker than one in the midst of challenge. He who reaches for Me in the midst, grows even more quickly. I Read more…
As you serve in your labor, it is My Name you carry, for it is I who created you, and I who has given you breath. It is I who has saved and brought you to this place. I have given you strength and good fortune. I made you rich Read more…