While traveling home from St. Louis, Kathy and I stopped at a truck stop and ordered breakfast. After waiting 25 minutes for our food, Kathy stared at the food counter hungry and frustrated. One of the other waitresses noticed Kathy’s stare and asked if she could help. After Kathy explained the situation, the waitress said, “You have an excellent waitress. ...
While touring a manufacturing plant, Kevin, the plant CFO, shared with us his views on time clocks. He concluded that “time clocks can make for lazy managers.” Instead, Kevin’s company chose to change the procedure to one where people matter more than the process. Their managers strive to know their people’s timeliness and challenges well enough that time clocks aren’t ...
In 1 Kings the prophet Elijah had just had a mountain top experience. God had performed a miracle for Elijah, resulting in the embarrassment and deaths of 850 false prophets. Instead of celebrating, however, Elijah received a message from Queen Jezebel that she planned on killing him by the next day. Out of fear, Elijah fled to the wilderness to ...
Putting his life at risk, the prophet Elijah meets with his arch enemy, King Ahab, and demands that the King gather the false prophets and meet him on Mount Carmel. Standing before Ahab and 850 false prophets, Elijah challenges them and their gods to a test. After considerable time mocking their gods, Elijah, finally calls on his God. In 1 ...
Like many courageous leaders, the prophet, Elijah was a pioneer. Until Elijah, many had seen God perform amazing miracles, but no one had seen the dead revived. Elijah had been staying with a gracious widow and her son, when the son unexpectedly died. Few would have ever considered that someone could bring him back to life. But not Elijah! He ...
The prophet Elijah’s faith was fortified when God provided for him during a long drought. Ravens brought food to Elijah daily, to a brook that seemed to have endless water. Then one day, the water ran out! In 1 Kings 17:9 Elijah was told, “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a ...
The Lord gave Elijah many assignments that would frighten the strongest of leaders. Imagine being directed to go to the most powerful, wicked king of the land to rebuke and curse him for his evil! It would have been easy to overlook that directive from God as a very bad idea. Instead in 1 Kings 17:1 we read, “Now Elijah the ...
College graduates who desire to please God in their vocation are at a disadvantage. First, most of them are learning from books and teachers who have no interest in teaching a biblical perspective on work. Secondly, many students enter the workplace working for bosses who seem to only model improving the bottom line. That’s why we launched Legacy Impact Network. ...
In 2001, I spent time fasting, praying and journaling. Through my journaling, God directed me to form Integrity Resource Center and take some courageous steps outside my comfort zone. One of those steps was to host events to introduce people to faith at work stories. Since I had never hosted an event, it was very uncomfortable and required courageous faith. ...
I thought it was time for me to retire. I was sixty-one years old, and I thought our twenty-nine-year-old company was going strong. I’d come to work each day and sit in my office bored. Playing on emails and Facebook. However, our next financial report revealed we were more than a hundred thousand dollars in the red and sinking. What ...
Equipping Others to Do Work Differently
