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The Way Businesses Integrate Faith: Part III

2025-05-24T12:25:07-05:00June 4th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Wheaton College’s Center for Faith and Innovation performed a multiple-year research project to explore how faith manifests itself in business. They categorized faith activities into three distinct categories.  The final category is Internalized Faith.  This category is more challenging to identify. Being a company that is family-oriented, compassionate, or merciful may all be examples of internalized faith.   The heart and ...

The Ways Businesses Integrate Faith: Part II

2025-05-24T12:12:01-05:00June 3rd, 2025|Tags: , , |

Wheaton College’s Center for Faith and Innovation performed a multiple-year research project to explore how faith manifests itself in business. The researchers categorized faith activities into three categories.  Operationalized Faith is our focus today.  These researchers discovered that some companies develop faith-rooted policies or practices. They labeled these operationalized faith.   Some of the examples are charitable giving, providing chaplains for ...

The Ways Businesses Integrate Faith: Part I

2025-05-24T11:58:21-05:00June 2nd, 2025|Tags: , , |

Wheaton College’s Center for Faith and Innovation performed a multiple-year research project to explore how faith manifests itself in business. The researchers categorized faith activities into three distinct categories: Embodied Faith, Operationalized Faith, and Internalized Faith.  Let’s begin this series with Embodied Faith.   According to businessasmission.com, Embodied Faith is the most visible form of faith. It includes mission statements that ...

The Movable Middle

2025-05-02T18:58:45-05:00May 23rd, 2025|Tags: , , |

In the latest American Bible Society “State of the Bible” report, we learn that Bible engagement continues to decline. In the decade before the pandemic, roughly 50% of adults used the Bible at least three or four times a year.   But since then, Bible use has slid to 38%. There is hope, however.   American Bible Society discovered that those ...

Setting Yourself Apart

2025-04-27T20:08:24-05:00May 14th, 2025|Tags: , , |

During my last semester in college, the University of Missouri hosted a recruiting event for many of the largest CPA firms. Some firms were not willing to interview anyone with less than a 3.5 grade point.   This left me with less options than some of my peers, so I needed to somehow set myself apart. So, when I sent a ...

Salvation Not Situation

2025-04-26T15:39:03-05:00May 9th, 2025|Tags: , , |

My job was winding down as the company prepared to eliminate my position. It was a stressful time as I scrambled to find employment to support my family. I was praying fervently for God to provide the things I believed – that I “knew” – I would need to be satisfied.  But I was taken aback in the midst of ...

Bowling Lesson

2025-04-26T14:53:17-05:00May 7th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In his book, “Life is Hard. God is Good. Let’s Dance.,” Brant Hansen compares worrying about our situation to the gyrating and dancing that some bowlers do after the ball leaves their hands. No matter how hard they move or flex, their actions have absolutely no impact on the ball rolling toward the pins.  When we realize how little impact ...

Difference Maker

2025-04-26T14:44:32-05:00May 6th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Everyone wanted Darren on their work teams. He was positive, encouraging, and kind. Yet once you got to know him, you heard stories of the challenges he had faced in life, from childhood trauma to chronic health issues.   But Darren saw those things not as an excuse to complain, but as an opportunity to show how Jesus had given him ...

A Career with No Regrets

2025-04-05T20:45:00-05:00April 28th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Tom Ferguson, as CEO, led 11,000 employees for twenty-five years when he retired. He sent a farewell email to all his employees that also mentioned his faith.   When over 1,000 people responded with surprise that Tom was a Christian, Tom was devastated. He had led this company for decades with no obvious spiritual impact.  Fortunately, God gave Tom a ...

5 Reasons to Integrate your Faith and Work: Reason Five

2025-04-05T19:41:04-05:00April 25th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In this series, we’re sharing five reasons why integrating your faith and work has great value. The final reason is because God can transform entire workplaces.  Seth felt God was instructing him to stay employed at Home Depot until every employee heard about Jesus. Obediently, Seth began a Bible study, then a prayer group at work.   Two years later, God ...

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