Beyond "Luck"

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Glory or Pragmatism?

I'm afraid that for us the notion of writing, or doing anything, "ad Dei gloriam", to the glory of God, has been swallowed up by the pragmatic concept ...

No More Fugues

The idea that one would build a chair or write a fugue for the sake of making the best chair or music one can is foreign to our culture, even our religious ...

Giving the Gift of Work

Karole Shirley, Ordinary Hero

It's nice when your boss notices your work. It's even better when the CEO of your company notices. And it's even ...

Lessons from the Ladder

We are told that when Jacob set out to journey from Beersheba to Haran, he stopped at a certain place for the night and had a dream. What did he dream? ...

The Most Important Work

The future of the Christian work which is now being carried on with such great intensity does not depend upon curtailment or reorganization. It depends ...

Better to Dare

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy ...

God Wants Living Sacrifices

(God) wants our bodies as living sacrifices, not corpses.

Making a Life

Making a life is more significant than making a living.

The Contented Fisherman

In Our Daily Bread, Philip Parham tells the story of a rich industrialist who was disturbed to find a fisherman sitting lazily beside his boat.

"Why ...