Teaching Kids the Value of Hard Work
Children are watching and listening. How we talk about work matters, especially when it’s in the context of how God called us to live with purpose and hard work. Here are some pro tips for parents on this topic.
His Kingdom Comes to Our Work
When I hear the term, working woman, my mind flashes to Dolly Parton singing “9 to 5.” I imagine a woman dressed in a suit hurrying out the door with a cup of coffee and a briefcase in hand. I know this profile doesn’t reflect all working women, but I also know that women are […]
Stewarding Your Vocation: Courtney Moore at Union University
Last year I had the opportunity to speak to college students in Jackson, Tennessee at Union Univerisity’s chapel service. This was such an honor for me, not only because I’ve respected Union for years, but also because it brought back memories of my own college years, specifically how the Lord grew within me a passion […]
What is Calling?
What. Is. Calling?Can I tell you how long I’ve been asking this simple, three-word question? For at least 25 years, I’d say – from about the time that I first heard the word ring out across the sanctuary in ‘big church,’ while I doodled on the pastel pink bulletin next to my Mom. [Insert memories […]
Work Fulfilled from Garden to City
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. – Revelation 21:1-2 Do […]
Work Redeemed in Christ
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him… Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, do it from the heart, […]
Work After The Fall
He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children with painful effort. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you. And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not […]
Work is Commissioned
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” So God created manin his own image;he created him in the image of God;he created […]
The First Worker
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. – Genesis 1:2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished His work […]
Keeping An Eye On Envy
// ENVY // Let’s talk about envy. The dictionary defines it as: 1. A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck. 2. A desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else). Ex: “He envied people who did not have to work on […]