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Grandpa Abe and the Workers
By Chris Horst
I sat on the countertop as my mom shared the tragic news: My grandpa—Abe Horst—had died.
A heart attack seized his last breath at the early age of 63. While reading the newspaper during a summer day in 1997, he passed. He was healthy and active and we were not ready to say goodbye. While our relationship revolved around my early adolescent affinities like pizza and beach vacations, I cherished him immensely.
Wounding Work: Creative Service as Cross Bearing
By Joseph Sunde
Across the realm of evangelicalism, we’ve seen a renewed focus on the deeper value, meaning, and significance of our daily work. Yet as easy as it may be for some to alter old attitudes and begin appreciating the gift of creative service, it can be extremely difficult for others — and often for good reason.
3 Things You Should Know About Stewardship
By Joe Carter
Sold into slavery, Joseph is put in charge of Potiphar’s household. Potiphar “entrusted to his care everything he owned. From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph” (Genesis 39:4-5 [NIV]).You may not recognize it, but this is one of the first mentions of both stewardship and economy in Scripture.
How to Find Joy and Meaning in Your Work
By Charlie Self
One of our favorite coffee shops when we lived in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s was The Daily Grind. The name’s humorous wordplay about everyday work and the delicious fresh-roasted coffee made us smile.
What WALL-E and Wilhelm Röpke Teach Us about Work and Economics
By Joseph Sunde
Humans have a tendency to daydream about a day or a place where work is no more, whether it be a retirement home on a golf course or a utopian society filled with leisure and merriment.
But is a world without work all that desirable?
The Rhythm of Vocation: A Challenge to ‘Work-Life Balance’
By Joseph Sunde
“If all of our working and all of our resting serves the same vocation of love, why do we so often feel out of balance?”
God Is With You in the Workplace (Whether You Know It or Not)
By Joseph Sunde
We’ve seen a renewed focus among Christians on the deeper value, meaning, and significance of our daily work, leading to lots of reflection on how we might “find God in the workplace.” As a result, Christians are becoming ever more attentive to things like vocation and calling, looking for transcendent purpose and value in the world of work, beyond simply funding missionaries or evangelizing co-workers.
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