My friend Chuck has always been an encouragement to me. (Read his first article on retirement here.) A few years ago he retired from his 40+ year corporate career. A short time later, he started volunteering with One Mission Society, a 100-year-old missions...
I have been thinking a lot about rest lately. The time & place for it, the how-to, and the why. It’s a tough thing for us all to do sometimes, and, as I’ve written about before, I certainly haven’t always been the best at it! I was thinking about this concept of...
Work is meant to add value to both the world around us and the human experience – it was something God ordained in His original created order. But workism is one distortion of our worship that takes our hearts from God and puts our focus into our work alone.
My cultural references are admittedly starting to show their age. My parents' generation loved to quote Andy Griffith and M.A.S.H, much to our chagrin. Now I bury my kids with Seinfeld and Ferris Beuler one-liners. The eyeroll emojis are plentiful. With that...
Workism filters into our hub display with messages such as “hustle harder”, “grind”, and “fueled by coffee”. It’s not bad or wrong to desire to accomplish something and leave a legacy – I think that’s an innate human desire – but the method, motivation, and purpose for which you do it is most important.
If I ask why you go to work every day, a majority of you would statistcally answer "because I need money to pay my bills." This isn't a wrong answer. It's even an honorable answer. Life carries with it responsibility and we trade our time and our skillsets for the...
I was thinking today, what if we were so confident in God’s provision that we never worried about our next paycheck? What would that look like? What would that feel like? In a culture consumed by workism and workist theology, what would it look like for Christ’s...
Theology is so much more than just the academic study of religion. Our theology has a tangible impact on every aspect of our lives, even if we're completely oblivious to it. You have a theology of work. You might not be able to articulate it, but you definitely have...
Workism is based on a value-system of productivity and our ability to get things done. It might make us look really good- we might have good grades, high standards, or a maxed-out margin of productivity- but in reality, our work has become an idol in our lives above God Himself. Workism is not rest. We are needy people that require rest and must rely on Jesus alone as our strength.
I've had some jobs I hated. I worked in the mailroom at a record label when I was in college (not exactly the music career I envisioned). I worked as an entry level auditor in my early 20s, mindlessly vouching endless samples of invoices and doing end-of-the-year...
Senator John Crane shares 3 ways faith transforms your everyday work
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