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Living Your Faith at Work: Part II

2023-04-30T10:50:49-05:00May 23rd, 2023|Tags: , , |

Sportswriter, Terry Pluto, interviewed Pastor Chuck Myricks about his tips for living out your faith at work. His sales experience at IBM and Word Records provided him with wisdom worth sharing.  Pastor Myricks’ second tip is to stay out of the gossip. The workplace can be a negative place and people tend to judge one another. Gossip can stir up ...

Living Your Faith at Work: Part I

2023-04-30T10:36:24-05:00May 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , |

Sportswriter, Terry Pluto, interviewed Pastor Chuck Myricks about some tips on living out your faith at work. Pastor Myricks worked in sales and marketing for IBM and Word Records prior to becoming a pastor.  Pastor Myricks first tip is to be consistent. Myricks points out that you are at work to work. Peers must trust you.   If you take thirty-minute ...

A Changed Man

2023-04-30T10:19:38-05:00May 19th, 2023|Tags: , , |

Years ago, when I was in banking, a CEO named Sam was a customer who was brash, demanding, arrogant, and selfish. Every negotiation ended with him winning and me losing.  Years later, when I left banking to start a consulting practice, Sam wanted to meet with me. Reluctantly, I met with Sam.  It felt like I was talking to a ...

Respecting Religious Viewpoints

2023-04-21T21:11:11-05:00May 4th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

The 2023 Freedom at Work Survey, performed by Ipsos, identified several areas of concern for many employees in the workplace. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed claim that respectfully expressing their political viewpoints at work would “likely or somewhat likely” carry negative consequences on their employment.  Interestingly, for those who were asked about expressing their religious viewpoints, 60% thought it would ...

Four Steps to Model Christ at Work: Step Four

2023-03-24T20:12:45-05:00April 14th, 2023|Tags: , , |

A Gospel Coalition article by Miranda Carls provides four steps to improve your experience at work and to represent Christ more fully. The final step in this series is keeping work in perspective.  So many of our waking hours are consumed by work. This can eventually give us a distorted view of life making work problems bigger than they need ...

Good Friday

2023-03-17T14:13:22-05:00April 7th, 2023|Tags: , , |

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word good in the context of “Good Friday” actually references this day in history as being holy due to Jesus’ sacrifice on our behalf.   God’s ways, and the Bible, are full of paradoxes. The darkest day in history also begins the best weekend in history as Jesus not only died for our sins, ...

St. Patrick’s Work

2023-03-03T16:07:55-06:00March 17th, 2023|Tags: , , |

At 16 years old, Patrick was abducted from Britain and forced to become a shepherd in Ireland. It was during his time of isolation in tending sheep that his prayers resulted in his conversion to follow Jesus.  Eventually, Patrick escaped and returned to Britain. But then, through a dream, God called Patrick to return to Ireland to bring them the ...

A Spreading Revival

2023-02-24T19:02:01-06:00March 2nd, 2023|Tags: , , |

Wilmore Kentucky has been overwhelmed with thousands of people descending upon Asbury University to be part of the Asbury revival that began February 8th. It has now spilled over into several other universities.   As I read about the Asbury revival it makes me wonder what a workplace revival might look like. Acts 19 may give us a glimpse of what ...

Rational or Faithful?

2023-01-28T12:39:17-06:00February 28th, 2023|Tags: , , |

As I stared at three different proposals, I was tempted to dismiss the most respected firm because of price. Rationally, I didn’t want to spend that much money. Then I remembered the most important factor; who did God want me to use? If God desired me to use the most expensive vendor I needed to trust that He could make ...

Faith Based Groups at Work

2022-12-26T11:43:41-06:00January 4th, 2023|Tags: , , |

While Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts have swept corporate America recently, religion is often overlooked. Brian Grim, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation’s CEO, recently said in a washingtoninformer.com article, “As companies find all diversity helpful, even to their bottom lines, the same can be found with making faith a part of corporate DEI.”  Faith oriented groups are becoming more ...

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