“The problem starts when we make up our own minds what will give us happiness and then decide if we don’t get exactly that then God doesn’t love us.” Elisabeth Eliot Was reading a book not at all about career, workplace, or medicine this weekend and got struck by this quote. Really, what she is saying is that our first…
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What does it look like to walk out our Christian faith at work?
“God, I thank you for this incredible woman who is giving her life to you today. We pray for healing in her health and blessings with her relationship with her family…” I sat agreeing with a student who was praying for a patient at our medical clinic on a Ten Days Medical Missions trip last year. It had been an…
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The work we do must be filtered correctly and purposely. The world has seen enough of filtered, perfected fakeness. It wants something real.
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Genesis 39:20-21- “But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him.” I find the story of Joseph a beautiful, yet heartbreakingly puzzling one. Such a crazy series of ups and downs- loved by his father, yet despised by his brothers. Appreciated and uplifted by his boss, then unfairly thrown in jail by him. Serving and helping those…
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“A strong man who has known power his whole life does not realize its value, but a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion. I hope you will stay who you are… a good man.”
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Far too often as Christians we think our main goal in life is perfect church attendance. We miss the larger calling and ability of the mission God actually set out in the Bible. One thing I love to think about is our ability as people in the workplace to change the course of tide of life itself. This is introduced biblically as…
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Have you ever been so annoyed with someone on a soapbox that you would give up your friendship with them?
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I see this topic of “faith at work” floating around sometimes nowadays, much more often then I did ten years ago, and I think it’s a wonderful topic. However, it’s always interesting how this discussion actually goes after the title. I think far too often, people are confusing their vocabulary, so let’s discuss some things it’s not. It’s not called “Faith and Work”. If…
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Go and find what it is that inspires you, go and find what it is that you love, and go do that until it hurts. Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning- and he will be there until the end. (Magnolia Story)
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We burnout often because we filter everything in our lives nowadays- painting over and touching up things that we should have just thrown out and given up on long ago.
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