Your Work Today Matters: It Advances God’s First Commission
Issue #420, April 8, 2026 Do you ever wonder if what you do today really matters? In this series we’ll explore why our daily work carries deep and lasting significance*. Our daily work occupies most of our time and energy—whether teaching students, building kitchens, plumbing homes, farming fields, writing software, or working in an office. […]
#322 A Flourishing World: Work is purposeful
April 13, 2022 God created a flourishing world abounding with life and beauty. He created abundant plants and all kinds of animals and then added humans made in His own image. God assigned specific roles to the man and woman. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the […]
#321 A Flourishing World: Diversity is Affirmed
April 6, 2022 A second ingredient in a world that flourishes is that diversity is affirmed. God created a world that was beautiful and flourishing…and diverse! So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27, NIV) From the beginning God […]
#320 A Flourishing World: People are valued
March 16, 2022 The first ingredient in a world that flourishes is that people are valued. God created a marvelous world, filled with animals, plants and amazing beauty. All His creation had value. But the people He created had infinitely more value. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, […]
#319 A Flourishing World: God’s Design
March 2, 2022 God designed our world to flourish. Not to simply exist or survive, but to thrive! He created a flourishing world. 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of […]