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Embodying Truth
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The official-looking envelope from the Department of Licensing reminded me of something I no longer look forward to—my birthday. So, more than a month early, I drove to the licensing office. There, in addition to a new license, I'd get a fresh insight into serving Christ in the workplace.

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Embodying Truth
Monday, January 25, 2010

Eugene Peterson's book title assures us that Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. Apparently those places include bakeries. A close friend of ours (she prefers to remain anonymous) told us how Christ met her and a co-worker in the bakery department of a grocery store. Here, in her own words, is her story.

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Embodying Truth
Monday, January 11, 2010

In my Dec. 31 blog, I wrote that all Christians need to be “eyes and ears, priests and pray-ers, salt and light” on the job. Jeff Morgan responded by noting how this points up our need for awareness: “I see tasks not people,” he wrote. “But once given pause, I see the missed opportunity to connect. How do I orient myself daily to have such a seeking eye?”

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Grasping Vocation
Thursday, December 31, 2009
What can the church learn from all the recent focus on airport and airline security? read more...
Supporting Believers
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

A few days ago Debbie LaFever, a woman in the small group that meets in our home, brought us up to date on her adventures as a Christ-follower in a public school. Her workplace testimony encouraged us all. So I asked her to write it up for this website.

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Grasping Vocation
Monday, November 23, 2009
Does God give you gifts of his Spirit for use only within your local congregation? Or does he also give those gifts to make you able to serve him in your everyday work? read more...
Embodying Truth
Monday, November 16, 2009
Salt. It's within easy reach at most dinner tables. It's also found abundantly in just about every region of the world—whether in saltwater, soil, or rock. Jesus said his followers are the “salt of the earth.” What did he mean? read more...
Grasping Vocation
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Recent events in the news plus a personal experience added up to one of those aha! moments for me. For days, the media focused our attention on the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, and at the Gateway Center in Orlando, Florida. Other than murder and injury, what did those tragedies have in common? read more...
Supporting Believers
Sunday, November 01, 2009

1543: The sun orbits the earth. Really? 

2009: The church meets to worship. Really?

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Grasping Vocation
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Q:  What's wrong with this picture?

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Doing Earthwork
Thursday, September 17, 2009

On some 6,000 acres in southeastern Washington, Ralph and Cheryl Broetje grow apples and cherries.  But, says Ralph, “We’re interested in bearing fruit that will last.  “We’re working on the production of fruit and how it’s doing in terms of people.  It’s our work, call and passion all in one.”  Cheryl agrees.  “We believe we’re marketplace ministers,” she says. 

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Embodying Truth
Sunday, July 12, 2009
By now Henry Blackaby's words in Experiencing God have become well known: “Find out where God is working and join him.” Doing so requires us to exercise faith on three fronts. read more...

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I am finding God putting me on the front lines at the car dealership nearly everyday...I sense that as my faith deepens God trusts me to minister to both believers and non-believers. The sequence of events unmistakenly shows God working through His Holy Spirit on an almost daily basis at work.
- Craig Anderson
Few business people . . . think of themselves as full-time ministers in the marketplace. Fewer still are encouraged in this by their churches. Hardly anyone gets commissioned to their service in the world except foreign missionaries.
- R. Paul Stevens, THE OTHER SIX DAYS, p. 39
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