How to Do Faithful Work at a Thankless Job

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“I don’t see the service industry as drudgery but as a singular opportunity to serve countless people. If I scorn the job God has handed me, I’m thumbing my nose at him, telling him I’m too good for it.” - TGC

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The Theology of Sleep

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“Most of our time is in the workplace, and the second highest lump of time is spent sleeping. One-third of our lives! ….The Bible does have something to say about what we do with one-third of our life in this regard, but we don’t hear messages about this.” - TIFWE

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“Establish the Work of Our Hands”

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. (NKJV, Ge 2:15)

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty. (NASB20, Pr 14:23)

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How Do We Prepare Students for the Real World?

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“We are looking at our job … through a shattered mirror where work, in its brokenness, is unrecognizable from God’s original design. And this is where our graduates find themselves soon after adjusting their tassel: not in their dream job” - IFWE

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Rejecting the Ways of the Sluggard

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“We must first see that the Bible takes a dim view of idleness. This is clear in how Proverbs speaks of the sluggard. The word is used 14 times in the book of Proverbs; thus painting a clear and unflattering picture” - byFaith

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Business Ethics in a Pandemic

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“…profit for business is like breathing for humans—both are necessary for existence, but very few of us claim that respiration is the ultimate purpose in life.” - IFWE

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“Help! My Job Is Just a Job”

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“Our work itself is an instrument of God’s grace, pushing back the corruptions of the fall through the influence of God’s character and care that we embody — even in the most pressured, difficult, secular, frustrating, and demoralizing workplaces.” - Brian Chapell

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Help! I Don’t Feel like My Work Is Meaningful

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“…we more often feel as if work is toilsome, pointless, and fruitless, as if the ground is bearing thorns and thistles just for us. We often believe Genesis 2 while feeling Genesis 3.” - TGC

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