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The business of our lives is energized by where we think we came from and where we think we're going. Mod1 explores how discovering God can be the difference between living life one accident after another and living and working on purpose.
John Sipple ends the Back To The Cottage series by reflecting on the personal experiences that accompanied him on his journey from the Cottage to the Corporation and back, pointing out the significant turning points that shaped his character.
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The new look at InsideWork is more than cosmetic. You're looking at Day One in the third iteration of InsideWork — reengineered from the core out to deliver our third generation of content.
Dan Wooldridge explores how the first ones who chronicled the life of Jesus provided a model for communicating in diverse global cultures and emerging generation.
Reading articles on the rise in the Wholesale Price Index in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times today reminded me of the Proverb about the "prudent person." The first half of Proverbs 14:8 says, ...
Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.
These two articles from our archives describe Christmas then and now in the context of a flat world, and present the challenges to communicating the message in a flat world.
Regular InsideWork contributor Howard Morrison writes: "I don’t think of my death very much. Not a pleasant thought, really. But when I do, I suppose I think of my death in light of the life I’ve lived so far. I think my reaction is probably typical: There is so much I still want to do."
I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the market–place as well as on the steeple of the church I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage–heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek. [...]
George MacLeod
Another in Howard Morrison's reflections on the Psalms — this time asking how a prosperous person ought to respond to the God who "causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."
Howard Morrison reflects on good wishes for hard business times.
There are at least a dozen things in Psalm 38 that Howard Morrison didn't seem to be facing. Which made him wonder if there was anything for him in this psalm...
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The Christian life is about living to the glory of God. It is not a driven frenetic, sweated, interminable quest for saving souls. It is doing for His glory what God has given us to do.
Richard John Neuhaus
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Salt preserves and light warns: we have a responsibility to resist evil influences and to be alert to moral danger in the workplace. Salt flavors and light guides: we have a responsibility to enhance what is good and to witness to Christ. Above all, salt glistens and light shines: we have a responsibility to be true to our nature, [...]
Richard Higginson
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We can commit ourselves without reserve to all the secular work our shared humanity requires of us, knowing that nothing we do in and of itself is good enough to form part of that city’s building, knowing that everything — from our most secret prayers to our most public [...]
Lesslie Newbigin
That’s why The Scriptural Roots of Commerce — the SRC — is so important to us. I used to think of the SRC as a sophisticated Bible study for business people. I don’t think that anymore. The Scriptural Roots of Commerce is not a “Bible Study” in the traditional sense .
Howard Morrison writes about his encounters with God (and himself) in the Book of Psalms. This reflection on Psalm 9 is one in the Walking the Walk series of posts on the spiritual practices of people in business.
1 John 1:9 is a favorite of many people: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” Some have referred to this as the Christian’s bar of soap.
In this final part of a series on best practices, Dan Wooldridge points out that chasing best practices by definition demonstrates that you are lagging. He urges us to move toward the front by developing next practices.
I’m struggling a bit with a trend I see in some of the psalms. Some of them seem so ME oriented. Take Psalm 26. There are 12 references to God in one form or another (be it a name like LORD or through personal pronouns.
Howard Morrison reflects on the hope that God will remember his own goodness and forget the very things in us that require God's kindness and mercy.
I love experiencing communion — The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist — as a celebration of God’s mercy and grace. But I have to admit I am challenged when Paul warns us to examine ourselves before we eat the bread and drink the cup (1 Corinthians 11:28).
Joel Zimmer
We know the value of talking to each other and we know (or at least believe we know) the value of talking to God. Howard Morrison reflects on why talking to ourselves can be so important in spiritual formation — if we know what we're talking about.
In his ongoing reflections on the Psalms, Howard Morrison muses about the extraordinary things ordinary people can do with God's help.
I could try to contextualize this to show how all of us are wealthy in some relative way and perhaps help you relate to this psalm, but the challenge I took up in these reflections is not so much to read the psalms as to let the psalms read ME.
Despite what some people think, InsideWork contributor Howard Morrison is not great at waiting. What seems apparent from outside appearances disguises the churning going on inside... Sound familiar?
Howard Morrison writes about the power of compelling stories that alter the lives of individuals and whole nations.
Howard Morrison writes: "I'm fifty. This year, more than ever, I've thought, 'I wonder how many more productive years I have left.' I'm not asking in a morbid way but because I want to make those years count."
In the divine economy, work is evaluated according to the way it fosters or retards relationships —— between ourselves and God, our companions and the earthly resources we are called to develop.
Gordon Preece
Dan Wooldridge, in his series on Chasing Best Practices, explores the question of whether Biblical best practices actually exist.
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