Your Work Today Matters: It Expresses God’s Calling
Issue #421, April 22, 2026 What do you call what you do today? If you use words like “work”, “job”, “career” or “profession” you may miss the element of God’s call on your daily activity. But the word “vocation” conveys the idea of a calling and better reflects the biblical perspective. Whether you are a […]
Daniel: Marketplace Leadership
Issue #160, July 22, 2015 Servant leadership is an inside job, but it will show on the outside in the way we do our work in the marketplace. Daniel already demonstrated his character and ability to wisely appeal to authority, but he also demonstrates compentence in his service to the king. When it was time […]
Vocation: A Call to Excellence
Issue #155, May 13, 2015 Paul’s view of vocation has challenged us to see our work as a call to stewardship and a call to worship. Seeing vocation in this way leads to action and Paul is clear that servant leaders are called to work and to work well! “Whatever you do, work at it […]
Vocation: A Call to Worship
Issue #154, April 29, 2015 We often see worship as an activity for Sunday that is very different from what we do when we wake up on Monday morning. But Paul saw our vocation as an act of worship. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not […]
Vocation: A Call to Stewardship
Issue #153, April 15, 2015 One of the first questions we ask when meeting someone for the first time is “So, what do you do?” We quickly identify ourselves and others with our work, job, or profession. How do servant leaders answer this question? In this series we’ll look at what Scripture says about what […]
Leading on Thursday Morning
Issue #27, March 17, 2010 What do servant leaders do on Thursday morning? They work at their calling! A few open the church door and enter their office. But many report to an office, others show up at a bank, many of them step into a classroom full of students, others sign in for a […]