Get a handle on your time management, with inspiration from Jesus and the gospels.
How can you navigate the tension between people and profit, and what does the Bible have to say about it?
With the advent of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, many workers find themselves suddenly working from home. If...
Seminary assignments in theology that address workplace issues.
Teach seminary students to rethink epistles for the modern worker.
Maybe it’s because the grass is always greener - or looks like it - at another job. But if your workplace can’t...
Bill Hwang, CEO and Founder of Archegos Capital Management and Fuller Trustee, shares how his faith influences his business practices and the...
“It’s lonely at the top,” the saying goes. Leaders face many challenges - especially when they’re trying to live out the teachings...
The Text. Genesis 31:44-54 44 Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it...
Joseph handled a delicate encounter at work in an impressive way, providing insight for us in our 21st century workplaces.
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but...
Text: Our third sermon in this series returns us to the Scripture from the first sermon, though...
The Lord is asking us here to do something that is very difficult: love yourself as God loves you.
Text: Various Proverbs. 10:3, 6:16–19, 112:20, 15:22, 20:18, 16:9, 19:21, 16:1–3, 21:5, 3:25–26, 27:1, 10:4, 12:24 The...
"Critical Choices" by Jim Grubs first appeared in the January 2014 issue of "Minding the Gap," a monthly newsletter about faith in...
This remarkable passage not only teaches us compassion and hope for the obsessed and depressed, the cutters and crack-crazed, but also the...
Lots of business advice out there today—even some of the advice we shared with you last week —is for people in charge...
Magazines both print and virtual, from the Harvard Business Review to Lifehacker, offer tips to help us be more productive. We’re tempted...
Albert Black has watched God “break into the midst” of his work. He started a business in the neighborhood he grew up because there were too many people who did not have a...
Jean Bartell Barber, granddaughter of the company’s founder, George H. Bartell, Sr., serves as vice chairman and treasurer of Bartell Drugs, with responsibility for finance, risk management, human resources, real estate, construction, and...
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach was educated and later taught at the London School of Economics and then became dean of the City...
All the advertising in the world won’t help you if a customer has a bad experience with an employee who does not live out the values you espouse.
At the end of the day as leaders we shouldn't be doing things . . . we should be inspiring and developing...
That year, for his six-month sabbatical, instead of hitting the speakers' circuit, Dr. Coleman took an unusual path: He spent two months digging ditches . . . two months in a kitchen . . . and two...
In the hopes of putting a stop to stealing, many managers have turned to surveillance systems. The best way to encourage trustworthy...
Are you tired of volunteering to bake the cookies, calling the parent list, organizing the family reunion, loading the presentation into the computer, leading the workgroup and shoveling the...
Being direct and transparent is often the best managerial technique. It's also, in my mind, consistent with the remit that we have...
In the first two chapters of Ephesians, Paul paints in broad strokes a picture of God's saving, unifying work in the cosmos...
So much of the "calling" aspect of our work consists in simply seeing people as people—not numbers, or performance statistics, or problems...
This parable is frustratingly mystifying, and I sometimes wonder if a key sentence or two was accidentally dropped on its journey from story to scroll. Here is Jesus telling a story that rewards...
Recently, the High Calling spoke with Boyd Clarke, Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Industry Consultant, about what qualities contribute to being an effective manager.
Corporations give each strategic project a fancy name. How much more then do we need to call our people by their names!
Jim’s employees loved his availability. A project running late? Jim made time to help. Personal problem? Jim made time to listen. Middle manager in a quandary? Count on Jim to sit down and...
Dee Ann Turner has worked for Chick-fil-A for more than 25 years and currently serves as Vice...
Most of the apostles have the same title. Saint John. Saint Matthew. Saint Peter. But Thomas had a special title: Doubting Thomas...
God doesn't seem too concerned about what kind of job you have. Some have powerful jobs and others do not. What matters...
My hope for Jim's fruitful future at our church shriveled on the vine. I felt like a dismal failure as a boss.
Since God made us inherently relational, relationships are not just incidental to work; they are essential.
In what is called the Table of Nations, Genesis 10 traces first the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 10:2-5), then the descendants of...
The story of Joseph has many insights that apply to work today.
Genesis’s interest in Joseph’s management of the food crisis lies more in its effect on the family...
Of the few variations between the two versions of the Ten Commandments, the majority occur as additions to the fourth commandment in...
The length of text devoted to land allotment Joshua 13-22 reflects the essential role of the land in shaping Israel’s identity, although it can make eyelid-drooping reading if we don’t look at the...
In the midst of Job’s second lament (Job 29-42), he unveils a significant treatise on ethical behavior, which in some ways anticipates...
Israel's leaders are indicted for their failure to care for the nation. Ezekiel 34 uses the metaphor of shepherding to illustrate how...
Although God’s grace has come into the world to bring reconciliation and justice, there are still evil spiritual powers at work opposing...
It is cruel for a master to force a slave to choose between obedience to the master and obedience to Christ. Therefore...
James applies both of his underlying principles as a warning against favoritism toward the rich and powerful...
Truth and Love at Work (2 John 1–6) Each of John’s letters is notable for bringing the concepts “truth” and “love” together...
3 biblical tips to jump-start your management career.
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