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January 2016

January 22, 2016

The Vocational Divide: the high cost of the work-faith disconnect

The Grind Alasdair gets to the train each morning around 6:10. He is in his...

January 20, 2016

Why Ask Why: 10 Reasons Your Work Matters to God

Work Through the Divine Lens: 3 Reasons I am building a bridge, a bridge that...

January 18, 2016

MLK: Work as a path to the dream becoming real

Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King. In his famous “I have a dream...

January 14, 2016

The Divine Design for Our Work and A Hijacked Scripture Verse

Confessions of a Verse Hijacker Most of my career has been as a pastor. Recently,...

January 13, 2016

Your Work Matters to God: It’s the Means to Many Ends

The Question of Purpose Does God care about the work we do each day? Does...

January 12, 2016

Redefining your time horizon: a clue to the significance of our work to God.

In the investment business, we talk about the time horizon of a given instrument or...

January 10, 2016

The Glory Window: Work as a space to get glimpses of God

Questions About Glory I suspect most of us would agree on the following 2 statements...

January 10, 2016

Always Part of The Story: Why Our Work Matters to God

Somewhere along the way, the reputation of work was tainted. The idea took hold...

January 07, 2016

The Upside of a Down Market: Work as Character Factory

The Myth of Easy I’ve been working since I was 14. Something has been staring me...

January 06, 2016

Find the Value of your Daily Work: Signs of the Divine Imprint

We don’t derive our purpose from our work, we bring our purpose TO our work....

January 05, 2016

Provide-ence: Our work matters because God meets the needs of others through our work.

Providence is the notion that God designed and sustains the world in such a way...

January 03, 2016

Damaged Goods: A Reason our Work Matters to God

The damaged nature of the world means my work can matter to God. One...

January 03, 2016

Does My Work Matter To God?

Here’s a question some of us can’t seem to outrun and others of us fear...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Shame | Purpose | Miserable Jobs | Work & Prayer: 2015 Highlights

In Marketplace Faith, I seek to explore the dynamics of modern work through the lens...

December 22, 2015

Sometimes the grass is greener: leave your miserable job.

Sometimes the best strategy for dealing with a miserable job is the exit. In processing...

December 16, 2015

The Vocational Pancake: a secret to escaping the miserable job

When a stack of pancakes sits for a while, butter and syrup soaking in,...

December 14, 2015

“Why is my job miserable?” A Theology of Frustration At Work

The Misery Conspiracy It seems like a conspiracy. The new job or the new...

December 09, 2015

What is the ticket to your best next? How to survive a miserable job.

How do you survive a miserable job? In this post we pause to inventory the...

December 04, 2015

Prayer, Work and the New York Daily News

In the wake of the 12-2-2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA, the New York...

December 04, 2015

The Question We Don’t Want To Ask: Survival Strategies for a Miserable Job

Several years ago I was chatting with my nephew. I asked him what was one...

December 02, 2015

Survival Strategies for a Miserable Job: Thanksgiving Leftovers

How do you feel the first day back to work after a break? Overwhelmed? Glad...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

How to pray for your work? End where you begin.

How should we pray for our work? Some of us pray constant "help me" prayers....

November 16, 2015

Aftershock: Going Back to Work After the Weekend in Paris

The news over the weekend has been dominated by the horrible terrorist attack in Paris,...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

What to do with the Dangerous Side of Work-life? Practice Preemptive Prayer.

This is post #7 in a series on how to pray about your work...

October 19, 2015

Winning at the Catch-up Game in NYC

Cash Is King Ever since the Dutch settled Manhattan, Faith has been playing catch-up on...

October 18, 2015

Spiritual Debt-Forgiveness

Spiritual Debt-Forgiveness: The how and why of writing off workplace wrongs and moving on....

October 14, 2015

Daily Bread for Your Day Job

How should we pray for our work? This is part 5 in a 9 segment focus...

October 09, 2015

Greek Gods and Workplace Prayers

What A Greek God Has to Say About My Work-life Prayers. In ancient Greek...

October 04, 2015

The First Request

How do we pray effectively for our work? We are in a series of posts...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Why Prayer for our Work, Works

This is part 2 in a series on praying for our work. In this post...

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