For Dr. George Washington Carver, the purpose and meaning of work boiled down to four words. After Carver succeeded in creating products ...

Religious leaders tried to trip Jesus up one day by asking Him to identify the most important commandment. Christ replied: “Love the Lord yo...

The accomplishments of Dr. George Washington Carver in the field of botany-chemistry are legendary, having developed 300 products from the p...

Some people believe that when Adam and Eve sinned, they forfeited their role as God’s representative governors over all the Earth. Like amba...

Last week we suggested that during Jesus’ 17 years as a carpenter, He was doing the work of God, based on the idea that He always did what ...

Ordinarily when we think of the Spirit of God flowing through Jesus, we think of Christ raising someone from the dead, turning water into wi...

The Gospel of the Kingdom is Good News for both Heaven and Earth. This is not an "either-or" proposition, but a "both-and...

The word “Gospel” means “Good News.” But what “Good News” are we talking about? For most of my life, when I heard the word “Gospel,” I redu...

Why did God create humans? We won’t know the complete answer until we see Jesus. But the functional reason God created humans is no mystery...

A reader of this blog had difficulty with my use of the word “actualization” in connection with the Kingdom of God last week. She had no pro...

Last week we saw Jack vanHartesvelt aligning his real estate dealings with the will of God. He reconciled what he is doing on Monday mornin...

Each month, I go through the same personal ritual of reconciliation: I reconcile my checkbook with my bank statement. When the bottom line o...

One of my favorite carols is Joy To The World. The words are by Issac Watts, based on his paraphrase of Psalm 98: Make a joyful noise unto t...

Last week I claimed that carpentry is the work of God. Even pounding nails and building a home in your neighborhood. I justified this claim ...

If someone said to you, “My friend, Joe, is doing the Lord’s work,” what work would come to your mind? Most people would imagine Joe is a p...

A recent Wall Street Journal article provides a good follow-up to last week's post. The article, Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the...

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pastor, a missionary to Native Americans, and the third President of Princeton University. Among his desc...

“I’m prepared to contend that the primary location for spiritual formation is the workplace.” This remarkable statement is by Eugene Peters...

One of the first books that opened my eyes to the faith-at-work frontier was Doug Sherman and William Hendricks' landmark piece, Your Wo...

One reason I am passionate about helping followers of Christ to connect their faith with their everyday work is because authentic Christiani...