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Gratitude and Lament
Someone recently shared with me some of Skye Jethani’s thoughts on the power of gratitude to help people live out their faith at work (from his book Whole-Life Generosity Devotional). I was reminded of sermons I have heard, usually around Thanksgiving, that convicted me of the importance of gratitude. It is not just something that…
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Daniel Fast at Work
The king’s food is sometimes viewed as a temptation to worldly indulgence, and Daniel provides a model of refusing to be tempted in that way. But there is another aspect to this food. It is viewed as the best food for producing healthy and attractive servants for the King. The concern of the chief of…
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What do you expect?
“Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” John the Baptist Luke 7:18 I have heard this passage taught as John having a crisis of faith with an observation that even someone like John can struggle with doubt. But coming to this passage after reading through the OT, I…
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Reading Scripture
I am doing the “The Bible Project : One Story that Leads to Jesus” through the Bible in a year plan. I find it challenging to read much of the OT and have a sense of how to relate it to my life. And then there are the parts of the OT that offend my…
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Job’s Restoration
I just finished Job in my read through the Bible plan and noticed something that had not occurred to me before. At the end of the book, Job does not get an explanation for his suffering, but his suffering ends and his fortune is restored two fold. Job has also repented of his questioning/accusing of…
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A Subtle Distinction II
“we will not find satisfaction in our work through faith in God (the current “Christian” work heresy) ; instead we will find our satisfaction in God through our experience of work. It is a subtle and telling distinction.”Entrepreneurial Leadership: Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference (p 80) Richard Goossen, R. Paul Stevens I left the parenthetical…
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A Subtle Distinction
“we will not find satisfaction in our work through faith in God ; instead we will find our satisfaction in God through our experience of work. It is a subtle and telling distinction.” Entrepreneurial Leadership: Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference (p 80) Richard Goossen, R. Paul Stevens I made a note of this quote…
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A God of Seeing
“You are a God of seeing” Hagar. Gen 16:13 Are you familiar with Lectio Divina? My spiritual director recently had me do Lectio Divina with the story of Hagar in Gen 16:1-16, when she flees from her mistress Sarai. The first instruction is to listen for a word or phrase that stands out in the…
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Relying on God at Work
Does integrating our faith and our work mean that we should rely on God more at work rather than on our own efforts? That seems spiritual, and it would be easy to convict most people of relying more on what they can accomplish in their own strength rather than really trusting God to accomplish work…
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Is God Reliable?
How would you answer that question? I was recently at a Christian event and the speaker, who was telling a story, said, “And like He always does, God came through and answered our prayers.” This is a statement about the reliability of God. But, as some friends and I noted afterward, it is a statement…