Blog - Mirroring God
Just the thought of reflecting God can overload our imaginations. How do you go about imaging an infinite Person? And the idea of mirroring him in your workplace raises the question: Where would you even begin?
read more...The story caught the nation's attention last month. Shopkeeper Mohammed Sohail was just closing up when a man with a baseball bat rushed in demanding money. When Sohail grabbed a gun, the man dropped to his knees, pleading for mercy and saying he had no money. What happened next made national news.
read more...You see the flash card for less than a second. The word on it: Stewardship. Quick—say your first thought. What does that word mean?
read more...Why work? The question has several answers, some on target and some off. Bottom line: we work because God is a worker—and he made us in his image. So working becomes one of the main ways we reflect God’s likeness in the world. But that raises a question.
read more...Happy Labor Day! The U.S. Dept. of Labor website says, "Labor Day [singular] . . . is a creation of the labor movement.” The Bible says labor days [plural] are a creation of God: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work” (Ex. 20:9). Not one, not two, but six out of seven days are labor days. That’s more than 300 each year.
read more...John C. Knapp writes about "the Christian community’s long-standing ambivalence about money.” Yet he goes on to say that, "the subject of work cannot be fully addressed apart from the making and spending of money.” (How the Church Fails Businesspeople, pp. 45, 67). Some of our double-mindedness arises from an uneasiness over the disparity between haves and have-nots.
read more...It was a penetrating question. It came to my attention this week through the course, "Taking Your Soul to Work.” Dr. R. Paul Stevens, author of many books that explore the biblical view of our daily work, had taught the course at Regent College, Vancouver, BC. I am in the process of adapting the material to teach as an online course for the Bakke Graduate University (BGU).
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