The Word Before Work

December 5, 2022

How to instantly make your secular workplace sacred

[Mary] brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him...

November 7, 2022

4 ways C.S. Lewis’s work was shaped by God’s Word

[Jesus] told them many things in parables. (Matthew 13:3) C.S. Lewis was one of the...

November 14, 2022

The 30+ year thorn in C.S. Lewis’s side

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your...

November 21, 2022

3 defining traits of Lewis & Tolkien’s small group of “Inklings”

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good...

November 28, 2022

C.S. Lewis’s Narnia vs. JFK’s Camelot

For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with...

October 3, 2022

3 questions God may ask about your work

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of...

October 10, 2022

John & Isaiah’s visions of work that lasts for eternity

The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into [the New Jerusalem]. (Revelation...

October 17, 2022

Jesus’s scars—a “human work” that lasts for eternity

You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for...

October 24, 2022

Which work will physically survive God’s judgment?

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is...

October 31, 2022

3 reasons to unashamedly chase after eternal rewards

Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for...

September 5, 2022

A God-honoring approach to planning

Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. (Proverbs 16:3)...

September 12, 2022

One of the worst mistakes I’ve ever made at work

The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice. (Proverbs...

September 19, 2022

2 words to speak over every plan

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that...

September 26, 2022

“For a Christian, there is no Plan B.”

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that...

August 1, 2022

How can you “pray without ceasing” at work?

I [Nehemiah] took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been...

August 8, 2022

Why the word “spiritual” doesn’t appear in the OT

Then I [Nehemiah] said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies...

August 15, 2022

“Trust God and get going” v. “Let go and let God”

…when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the...

August 22, 2022

5 steps for confronting darkness at work

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. (Ephesians...

August 29, 2022

“The only Christian work is good work well done.”

So the wall was completed...in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard about this, all...

June 13, 2022

When God gives you more than you can handle

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we...

June 20, 2022

I bet Paul wished he could “unsend” this letter

Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that...

June 27, 2022

What does it mean to “fix our eyes” on what is “unseen”?

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,...

July 4, 2022

Mister Rogers and the ministry of reconciliation

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us...

July 11, 2022

Are you “unequally yoked” at work?

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in...

July 18, 2022

How to “take pains to do what is right” at work

For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much...

July 25, 2022

“There’s no such thing as scarcity when you are a child of God.”

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also...

May 16, 2022

4 half-truths about heaven

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe...

May 23, 2022

Is Star Wars or Moana a better picture of the New Earth?

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and...

May 30, 2022

Kingdoms have more than Sovereigns and subjects

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as...

June 6, 2022

Why the end of Scripture is just the beginning

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb...

April 11, 2022

3 reasons why it matters that God works

Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day,...

April 18, 2022

Hacks and rip-off artists

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there...

April 25, 2022

You are called to Someone before something

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created...

May 2, 2022

What’s that gold doing in Eden?

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that...

May 9, 2022

“The smile of God is the goal of your life.”

The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their...

February 21, 2022

7 ways God worked “in the beginning”

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless...

February 28, 2022

Before you ask “What’s next?” ask this question

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the...

March 7, 2022

If it’s all going to “burn up,” why are you going to work today?

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land...

March 14, 2022

Why God paced himself “in the beginning”

God set [the lights and stars] in the vault of the sky to give light...

March 21, 2022

Sabbath as a license for laziness?

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the...

March 28, 2022

The “purposeless” beauty of God’s work

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were...

April 4, 2022

The First Commission, the call to create

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to...

January 24, 2022

A Gospel Perspective on Work in a Post-Pandemic World

You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told...

January 31, 2022

What Encanto can teach Christians about the Great Resignation

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession,...

February 7, 2022

3 ways to help the poor post-pandemic

Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes...

February 14, 2022

Would King Josiah trust you like this?

In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of...

January 3, 2022

The Dark Side of Discipline

Don’t you know that when people run on the race track everybody runs, but only...

January 10, 2022

Darth Vader and Elder Brothers

‘Your brother has come [home],’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf...

January 17, 2022

The Key to Extending Yourself Grace

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,...

December 6, 2021

Christmas Vocations

But after [Joseph] had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in...

December 13, 2021

The Pinnacle of Zechariah’s Career

...an angel of the Lord appeared to [Zechariah], standing at the right side of the...

December 20, 2021

Is Parenting More Important Than Your Job?

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a...

December 27, 2021

Shepherds and Religious Professionals

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks...

September 13, 2021

The 7 Habits of Jesus Christ

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the...

September 20, 2021

Why the worst songs get stuck in your head

“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than...

September 27, 2021

Dissent from the Kingdom of Noise

Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came...

October 4, 2021

Jesus and “a purpose harder than steel”

Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is...

October 11, 2021

Omnipresent God, Unipresent Jesus

While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting...

October 18, 2021

3 Rhythms of Counterintuitively Productive Rest

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the...

October 25, 2021

The difference between “busyness” and “hurry”

Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but...

August 9, 2021

5 Biblical Truths About Time and Productivity

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the...

August 16, 2021

The Truth About Our Never-Ending To-Do Lists

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the...

August 23, 2021

Why God Doesn’t Need You to Finish Your To-Do List

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and...

August 30, 2021

“A Christian is something before they do anything.”

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from...

September 6, 2021

Reading the Gospels as Biographies

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,...

July 12, 2021

“My job is faithfulness. God’s is fruitfulness.”

What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came...

July 19, 2021

Which “chariots” and “horses” are you trusting in at work today?

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced...

July 26, 2021

The absurdity of “letting go and letting God”

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. (Exodus 14:14) This...

August 2, 2021

3 ways to hustle less and trust more

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you...

June 14, 2021

Esther, the Queen of Imperfect Courage

Then the king asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up...

June 21, 2021

Has the “palace” of your work become a prison?

When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not think...

June 28, 2021

God didn’t need Esther. And he doesn’t need you.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will...

July 5, 2021

2 books of the Bible that don’t mention God

King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew…”write another decree in the...

May 17, 2021

New Series: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Work That Lasts Forever

“So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous...

May 24, 2021

Did God finish Niggle’s painting?

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that...

May 31, 2021

Is it wrong for Christians to be discontent in their work?

See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not...

June 7, 2021

Lewis, Tolkien, and The Fellowship of the Inklings

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing...

April 5, 2021

New Series: 1 Corinthians on Work

Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of...

April 12, 2021

Will God consider your work “gold” or “hay”?

The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will...

April 19, 2021

Why Paul Refused to Be a “Full-Time Missionary”

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should...

April 26, 2021

Meet the Parents and the Dignity of Work

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different...

May 3, 2021

Home Runs and Hard Work

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to...

May 10, 2021

What Bodily Resurrection Means for Our Work

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can...

March 8, 2021

New Series: What Easter Means for Our Work

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God....

March 15, 2021

Jesus’s Inauguration Day

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look...

March 22, 2021

How Our Work Reveals Jesus’s Kingship

Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going...

March 29, 2021

The Ultimate Incentive for Your Work Today

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon...

February 8, 2021

New Series: Arthur Guinness and the Call to Create

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves...

February 15, 2021

Gin, Stout, and Guinness’s 9,000 Year Lease

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was...

February 22, 2021

How Christians Lifted Dublin Out of the Slums

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced...

March 1, 2021

Brewers, Bankers, and “Guinnesses for God”

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I...

January 11, 2021

New Series: Daniel and the Ministry of 10X Excellence

The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table....

January 18, 2021

The Ministry of 10X Excellence

[Daniel said,] “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to...

January 25, 2021

Daniel’s Faith in the Face of Impossible Work

Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men...

February 1, 2021

Daniel and The Keeper Test

“I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and...

December 21, 2020

New Series: The Courage to Create

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who...

December 28, 2020

A God Who Risks

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that...

January 4, 2021

“Be strong and courageous”

No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life....

November 9, 2020

New Series: Ephesians on Work

With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will...

November 16, 2020

The Gospel: Our Source of Rest and Ambition

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not...

November 23, 2020

Small Prayers for Our Work

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or...

November 30, 2020

Paul: Do Something “Useful”

Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful...

December 7, 2020

Time Redeemers

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most...

December 14, 2020

Your Eternal Reward

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just...

October 12, 2020

New Series: How Change Happens

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created...

October 19, 2020

“The only way to change culture is to create more of it”

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I...

October 26, 2020

The Poet & The Parliamentarian

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good....

November 2, 2020

Vote AND Create for Change

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how...

September 21, 2020

New Series: A Bigger Story for Work

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….So God created mankind in his...

September 28, 2020

“The World’s Going to Know Your Name”

What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and...

October 5, 2020

The Biblical Story of Work

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a...

August 24, 2020

New Series: Into the Unknown

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body...

August 31, 2020

Stop Waiting for a “Sense of Peace”

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as...

September 7, 2020

Do you need God to approve your plans?

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that...

September 14, 2020

Why There’s No “Plan B” for Christians

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who...

July 20, 2020

New Series: William Wilberforce and the Fight to End Slavery

"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and...

July 27, 2020

The “Great Change” in Wilberforce’s Time Management

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most...

August 3, 2020

God doesn’t need you, me, or William Wilberforce

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different...

August 10, 2020

Wilberforce’s List of “Launchers”

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul....

August 17, 2020

Deflected Glory and Unfinished Symphonies

Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because...

June 22, 2020

New Series: Beyond Saving Souls

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and...

June 29, 2020

Your Work = The “Glory of the Nations”?

The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring...

July 6, 2020

C.S. Lewis’s “Transient Epiphany”

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession...

July 13, 2020

Save the World, Save the Cheerleader

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a...

June 1, 2020

New Series: Essential Workers in the Kingdom

Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others...

June 8, 2020

What does obedience have to do with work in heaven?

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of...

June 15, 2020

“I have the honor to be your obedient servant…”

Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those...

May 4, 2020

New Series: Bezalel and the Creative Spirit of God

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the...

May 11, 2020

Grace and Grit

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the...

May 18, 2020

Bezalel, Harry Potter, and our need to create in community

So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and...

May 25, 2020

One Last Thing

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths....

April 6, 2020

New Series: Gospel Driven Work in the COVID-19 Crisis

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me...

April 13, 2020

How to “Value Others Above Ourselves” during COVID-19

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from...

April 20, 2020

Vice-Regents

For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with...

April 27, 2020

Anxiety-Inducing News

4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your...

March 2, 2020

New Series: Chick-fil-A and the Call to Create

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your...

March 9, 2020

Excellence with a capital “A”

'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and...

March 23, 2020

Reading the stories of those we work with

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them...

March 30, 2020

Rest as a sermon for the ambitious

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced...

February 3, 2020

New Series: Out of Context (What 4 popular verses actually mean for our work)

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who...

February 10, 2020

Can we really “do all things” through Christ?

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) We’re in a...

February 17, 2020

When God gives you more than you can handle

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;...

February 24, 2020

Misreading the most cross-stitched verse of all time

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper...

December 30, 2019

New Series: Master of One

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved...

January 6, 2020

Jesus: “Few things are needed–indeed only one”

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where...

January 13, 2020

Divine Multiplication in Our Work

Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed,...

January 20, 2020

The 3 Keys to Mastery

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God….And whatever you...

January 27, 2020

How We “Proclaim the Excellencies” of God at Work

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for...

December 2, 2019

New Series: Jesus the Creator, Carpenter, Gardener, and King

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For...

December 9, 2019

Christmas at the Carpenter’s

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one...

December 16, 2019

Jesus the Gardener

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look...

December 23, 2019

The Final Advent

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon...

November 4, 2019

New Series: Colossians on Work

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For...

November 11, 2019

Paul’s Insane Energy

He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that...

November 18, 2019

What does it mean to “set your mind on things above”?

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where...

November 25, 2019

Mutual Submission at Work

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your...

October 7, 2019

New Series: The Myth of Work-Life Balance

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the...

October 14, 2019

Defining Excellence

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife...

October 21, 2019

Designing Whole-Life Excellence

Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and...

October 28, 2019

Embracing Imbalance

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that...

September 16, 2019

New Series: The Meaning of Work

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….So God created mankind in his...

September 23, 2019

The Idol of Calling

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward,...

September 30, 2019

Jesus and the Meaning of Work

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes...

August 26, 2019

New Series: The Good in Our Desire to be Great

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we...

September 2, 2019

The DNA of Kings and Queens

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created...

September 9, 2019

The Biblical Promise of Power

Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will...

July 29, 2019

New Series: Mister Rogers and the Call to Create

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your...

August 5, 2019

Choosing Between Two Pulpits

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that...

August 12, 2019

How to Make Goodness Attractive

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus...

August 19, 2019

Fred Rogers’s Daily Routine

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,...

July 1, 2019

New Series: When Jesus Said “No”

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where...

July 8, 2019

When Everything Looks Important

Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was...

July 15, 2019

When Jesus Said “Yes” to Something Better

Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the...

July 22, 2019

The Margin In Jesus’s Schedule

Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came...

June 10, 2019

New Series: Restless

Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will...

June 17, 2019

Debunking “Sabbath”

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry...

June 24, 2019

How I Sabbath

One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they...

May 13, 2019

New Series: What to Do When You Don’t Love Your Job

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the...

May 20, 2019

Bad Bosses

Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy...

May 27, 2019

Job, Career, or Calling

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye...

June 3, 2019

Time to Change Jobs?

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different...

April 15, 2019

New Series: Paul and the Call to Create

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under...

April 22, 2019

How Paul won “the respect of outsiders”

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business...

April 29, 2019

Where Christ is Not Known

It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known,...

May 6, 2019

Paul’s Model for Our Work

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to...

March 25, 2019

New Series: 3 Lies of Work and Calling

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members...

April 1, 2019

Lie #2: You can do everything you want to do

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most...

April 8, 2019

Lie #3: Your happiness is the primary purpose of work

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your...

February 18, 2019

New Series: James on Work

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all...

February 25, 2019

James 2: Modern Day Favoritism

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism....

March 4, 2019

James 3: The Alternative to Selfish Ambition

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast...

March 11, 2019

James 4: “Evil” Planning

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that...

March 18, 2019

James 5: Living in Luxury

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming...

January 28, 2019

New Series: The Ministry of Excellence

People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He [Jesus] has done everything well,” they said. (Mark 7:37)...

February 4, 2019

How we “proclaim the excellencies of God”

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession,...

February 11, 2019

Mediocrity: A Failure of Love

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,...

January 7, 2019

New Series: Anxiety at Work: How to Confront It, Cast It, & Carry On

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. (Proverbs 12:25) Let’s...

January 14, 2019

What It Means to ‘Cast’ Our Anxieties

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let...

January 21, 2019

How to Create with Boldness, Not Fear

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you...

December 10, 2018

New Series: The Coming King

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the...

December 17, 2018

Anticipating the Promised One

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of...

December 24, 2018

God With Us

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of...

December 31, 2018

A New Journey

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God...

November 12, 2018

New Series: Does My Work Matter?

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do...

November 19, 2018

A God Who Works

"This is what the Lord says—the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things...

November 26, 2018

Work: Part of God’s Plan

"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to...

December 3, 2018

Let’s Get To Work

"This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I...

October 22, 2018

New Series: The First Entrepreneur

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless...

October 29, 2018

Bezalel, the Holy Spirit, and the Call to Create

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the...

November 5, 2018

85% of Jesus’s Career

"God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the...

September 24, 2018

New Series: Discerning Your Calling

"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created...

October 1, 2018

Unspeakable Joy in Our Work

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I...

October 8, 2018

Passion – Competence ≠ Calling

"We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your...

October 15, 2018

The Final Question When Discerning Your Calling

"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants...

September 3, 2018

New Series: Gospel Driven Ambition

"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward,...

September 10, 2018

Covering Up With Accomplishments

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in...

September 17, 2018

Our True Ambition

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon...

August 6, 2018

New Series: Trust, Hustle, and Rest

"You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have produced...

August 13, 2018

Solomon on Trusting God in Our Work

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans." Proverbs 16:3...

August 20, 2018

Rise and Hustle

"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." Proverbs 16:9...

August 27, 2018

The Cure for Restlessness

"The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord."...

June 25, 2018

New Series: Time Management Principles from God’s Word

"Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that...

July 2, 2018

Setting Boundaries With Your Time

"But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." Luke 5:16 (NIV) Throughout the gospels, Matthew,...

July 9, 2018

How to Keep Track of Your Commitments

"All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from...

July 16, 2018

Discerning What’s Essential

"As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where...

July 23, 2018

How to Budget Your Time

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and...

July 30, 2018

When Jesus Said “No”

"As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the...

June 4, 2018

New Series: Responding to Failure

"Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."...

June 11, 2018

Hope in Times of Failure

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who...

June 18, 2018

The Boldest Entrepreneurs on the Planet

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of...

May 7, 2018

New Series: Every Christian Is a “Full-Time Missionary”

"Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them...

May 14, 2018

The Call to Cultural Creation

"God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the...

May 21, 2018

The Laughable Myth of Missions

"Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas...

May 28, 2018

As You Are Going…Make Disciples

"Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them...

April 16, 2018

Looking for a God at Work

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless...

April 17, 2018

What God Did NOT Create “In The Beginning”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created...

April 18, 2018

Thorns & Thistles

To Adam [God] said...Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will...

April 19, 2018

Work as a Fig Leaf

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches...

April 20, 2018

Fishermen and Religious Professionals

Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas...

April 21, 2018

The Verdict You’ve Been Waiting For

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from...

April 22, 2018

Saved to Work

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God...

April 23, 2018

Jesus the Gardener

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying...she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but...

April 24, 2018

On Earth As It Is in Heaven

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth...I saw the Holy City, the...

April 25, 2018

Work Redeemed

See, I will create new heavens and a new earth….[My people] will build houses and...

April 26, 2018

What Does “Glorify” Even Mean?

Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and...

April 27, 2018

How God Feeds the World

The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of...

April 28, 2018

Misreading the Great Commission

“Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19) This might be the most widely...

April 29, 2018

Agents of Redemption

But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are...

April 30, 2018

Your Eternal Reward

The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will...

May 1, 2018

Our Modus Operandi

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your...

May 2, 2018

The Ministry of Excellence

His master replied, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a...

May 3, 2018

Trusting AND Hustling

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced...

May 4, 2018

Rest as a Sermon for the Ambitious

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on...

May 5, 2018

“The Most Unproductive Thing You Can Do”

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I...