Entrepreneur took failures in stride because he never expected success to come quickly.
This engineer asks God for patience when he reads an angering email.
The waiting is almost over. It’s almost Christmas. Maybe you’ve carefully bought your gifts and lovingly wrapped...
We carry God’s kingdom to all kinds of workplaces, including schools. So as you go back to school, don’t be surprised if...
Sometimes work is exciting, engaging, and challenging. We make discoveries, help other people and build something worth...
Those who believe that Christ makes all things new are contributors of hope.
The woman at the coffee bar taps her nails in a staccato rhythm.
Every church creates its own culture—a blend of leaders, congregations, neighborhood, city, state and nation, along with language(s) spoken and theological orientation...
On the first Sunday of Advent, we light the purple candle on our wreath, and hope is kindled anew. We wait for...
Ka-ching! ...
This is the fourth talk of Andy Mills' five-part series on faith and work. Andy Mills is the former CEO of the...
When I was about four years old, all I wanted for Christmas was a cotton candy machine. I saw it advertised during Saturday morning cartoons and I was infatuated with it. I could...
When Christmas season came during my childhood, there was a breathless excitement, enthusiasm and anticipation.
In my last post, I suggested that Paul begins to explain how we live out our calling...
In another post, I confessed my surprise over where Paul begins as he urges us to live...
Dr. Neil Clark Warren is not the type of person you think of when you hear the word, entrepreneur. He has degrees from prestigious schools, he was a counselor, writer and academic for...
How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing?
“Do you knit?” I asked my friend Stacey, who sat beside me at a table near our sons’ fine arts classes. I...
I flew into the house loaded with my camera gear, late from a photo session with an unhappy newborn baby. Christmas season is always insanely hectic for family photographers, so I knew that...
American culture is about productivity and effectiveness and efficiency, getting more with less effort. Advent is about waiting, and our culture is...
On a Monday during piano lessons, I just sit with the dead at the cemetery.
I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. Psalms 40:1 When I first read Psalm 40:1, I was immediately reminded of how hard...
Have you ever asked, "What difference does it make?"
God had promised to Abram abundant descendants through his own son (Gen. 15:4-5), even though his wife, Sarai, had not been able...
"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people." Matthew 4:19 "He also said, 'The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and...
Bonnie Wurzbacher weighs in on the importance of women leaders in business and church.
Ray's new botany teacher handed him a river plant and told him to study its leaves, roots, and blossom. Fifteen minutes later...
Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic polar expedition of 1939 and ‘40 had reached Sulzberger Bay—farther than any previous South Pole venture—when its small wooden ship, the U.S.S. Bear, became ice...
Major Applewhite was starting quarterback at the University of Texas. As a sophomore, he was Big 12 co-offensive player of the year. He held or shared 40 school records. Yet Major Applewhite...
Remember the story of Joseph, the spoiled son—sold into slavery, who became the number two leader of all Egypt, the model business manager? As a young slave, Joseph soon oversaw his master’s...
God called Abraham into a covenant of faithful service, as is told at the beginning of Genesis...
An integrated understanding of work from a biblical perspective needs to include a clear sense of Christian vocation, or calling. As Christians...
Unlike Saul who had begun his reign soon after Samuel anointed him (1 Samuel 11:1), David has a long and difficult apprenticeship...
The hope we have lies not in making the best of the present situation, but in the...
This brings us to the second principle of faithful work—working for the benefit of others in need. “Be doers of the word...
