ServiceMaster is one of the great corporate stories of the 20th Century. The company grew from a...
Fast food jobs have a greasy reputation in the modern economy. Most people don’t aspire to work in food service, even though...
Gifts. Perhaps most of our concern, energy, financial resources at Christmas involve the selection, purchase, and giving of gifts. Often this concern...
Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above...
Service industry jobs, like being a hairstylist, housecleaner, or nurse’s aide, are often called “pink-collar” work. Frequently (though not always) done by...
1 John 3:16-24 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our...
Next Monday the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day as a day to remember those who have died in military service. No matter your...
Unless you’re living on a deserted island, you probably had a customer service transaction today. Did you look for God in that...
It seemed like such a small thing, such a tiny sacrifice.
This guide will help you support the immigrants and refugees transitioning into your community.
John the Baptist is like God’s dynamite in today’s passage. He’s preparing the way for the Lord by shocking people into mending their ways.
Hairstylist Michele Van Fossen's calling is to listen to clients lives.
When we get it wrong, action, not lip service, is our best response.
All of these are gifts from Christ, and he asks us to bring them to him.
As people of faith, let's move through the world, always making sure the good we’re doing is good for everyone.
Does your Facebook look like mine? Photo after photo of happy kids on their first day of school in a new grade...
Unlike me, my daughter has natural administrative tendencies. I didn’t pass along those genes, but I did pass along one thing.
A young Vietnamese girl—injured when her orphanage was bombed—required an immediate transfusion. In broken Vietnamese, two American medics talked to the orphans who matched her blood type.
“We’re not dealing with their employment. We’re dealing with their calling.” Lee Scott inspires a refreshing approach to HR.
Maybe we feed each other, give cups of water, visit the sick and the prisoner because we are part of a community.
These days people say Jesus was talking only about feeding the literal poor, but I also think he was talking about extending small kindnesses to people like me.
Can we care for the needy through political means?
Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones and Dr. George Cladis offer three sermons outlines about faith and work. This issue focuses on rest, kindness...
Tomorrow we are moving. Again. My husband and I will be married 18 years in July. This will be our 16th house...
In C. S. Lewis’ beloved story The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the land of Narnia is under an evil curse. It is always winter, but never Christmas. Only Aslan, the great...
That year, for his six-month sabbatical, instead of hitting the speakers' circuit, Dr. Coleman took an unusual path: He spent two months digging ditches . . . two months in a kitchen . . . and two...
How can we love the Lord with our minds? This begins, I would suggest, with choosing to think about God.
A grocery manager gave a young man his first job. Eager to please, the new employee would rush through every task. Then he would say: "What can I do now?"
When my kids were little, I sometimes used what they called my “Loud Voice.” It often came out when we needed to hurry. ...
We’re on the beach, waves thundering, breeze playful, sand beneath our bare skin. I lay my head against her lap, close my eyes. ...
For many years, my only experience with jail was as a token on the corner of the Monopoly board. Sometimes I’d make...
This winter, after becoming aware of widespread human trafficking in the cocoa industry, Kelli decided to do something.
Like Jesus himself, we are to be in the world, engaged with its people, institutions, and cultures.
During my childhood, Burger King told me, “Have it your way.” The catchy jingle meant that you could order your hamburgers according...
I started college because everybody did. I finished college because my father did not; it was a way for me to prove...
There is an old Harvard legend that on campus one day, the beloved Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs asked a student why he failed to complete an assignment. ...
Jim was CEO of the hospital, but he still served ice cream at the annual ice cream social. During the day, senior staff members scooped gallons and gallons of ice cream for anyone...
Recently, the High Calling spoke with Scott Wesley, Program Instructor with The WorkFaith Connection.
As a manager for a company that makes hair dryers, Gary believed his organization had no eternal significance.
Looking back at a vintage High Calling video of Rev. Dr. Martin E. Marty, Church Historian, being interviewed on ABC Directions, 1978.
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Running a business during hard economic times requires the same focus.
When have you experienced God’s love for you? Are you open to an even deeper experience of God’s love?
According to 1 Corinthians 13:4, love is "not jealous." What does it mean to be jealous?
Susan was a Christian, and her coworkers knew it. But how did they know? She rarely mentioned her faith. Her work was top-notch, of course. But her coworkers were sharp too. It was something...
Kris Fuhr has spent her adult life covering the career front and busting SOP. In military speak...
Mark 2:1-12 paints a powerful picture of how you and I can care for the people in our lives who are suffering...
What comes to mind when you think of a minister? If you are like most people, you think about church buildings and pulpits, preachers and priests, missionaries and Bible school teachers.
World Vision tells a story about Deborah. Years after the genocide in Rwanda, Deborah could not get over her son's death—so she daily asked God for help. One morning a young man came...
At first, some people didn't understand the game. Swim across the river, race up the canyon half a mile, jump off the cliff into the river—carrying one team member the entire way. Don't...
“We have been rescued from our enemies so we can serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness for as long as we live.” Luke 1:74-75 The Gospel of Luke begins with the...
While on safari in Africa, a businessman visited a group of relief workers caring for the poorest of the poor. Touring the relief workers' campsite, he felt Africa's intense heat. He swatted at...
Transcript The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy struggled with the inequities of wealth and poverty. One day as he walked down the street, Tolstoy passed a beggar. Reaching into his pocket to give...
After attending a funeral, Nancy and Kim went out to eat. It had been two years to the day since Kim's father died, and their mood was somber. Then a former client of...
A new leadership style is coming, and it arrived washing the disciples' feet. It is leadership that serves.
For several summers, Jason was a top counselor at Laity Lodge Youth Camp. To an adoring tribe of active young boys, he was chief teacher, nose-wiper, song-leader, listener, and fun machine. He...
Elihu Root was already a national figure, known and respected, when President Teddy Roosevelt asked him to serve as Secretary of State. Some people thought it would be better for Root's career to...
Michael Whitehurst likes to challenge his buddies to be accountable. Sometimes he uses metaphor.
It was the beginning of a nationally televised NBA playoff game. Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gilbert was set to sing the national anthem. And she promptly forgot the words! Maurice Cheeks, coach...
Transcript Joan was a new volunteer in a major hospital ER. She didn’t expect a standing ovation—but sometime during that first rough evening, she expected someone to thank her. But no one did...
Sylvia is married and has two young children. At a recent party, as people exchanged small talk, someone asked Sylvia what she did. "What do I do?" I heard Sylvia say. "I'm a...
On a bloody Civil War battlefield, depleted surgeons were down to dressing wounds with corn husks when Clara Barton—the angel of the battlefield—arrived with a wagonload of bandages and medical...
When trouble came, Otto Weidt never distinguished his business from his responsibility to others.
The great humanitarian had forgotten time, and he would not leave until all the towels were picked up.
Jewish leaders in Jesus’ day often fought over the relative importance of commandments. Some held the view that observing the Sabbath was...
Our work can be a way of loving others if we work as God would have us do it.
When you're at work, who is your neighbor? How do you love them?
Jesus, thank you for the work of janitorial and custodial staff. Their work holds great value, as they restore spaces to be clean and beautiful, and as they sanitize surfaces, so that people...
God, for the retail workers, hear our prayer. As they lead customers through abandoned aisles, as they take payment from customers’ hands, help them not to be afraid. As they restock barren shelves...
This is the sixth sermon in the series: “Inspired: The Whole of Life with God in the Picture.” It was delivered by...
