“This week’s Ministries Making a Difference looks at four Christian ministries helping business leaders and employees integrate faith and work through discipleship, biblical leadership, mentoring and workplace chaplaincy.” - MinistryWatch
When Your Boss Expects You to Lie
“You’re sitting at your desk, running the numbers, and your boss has made it clear: If you want to hit your quotas, you’re going to have to bend the truth — just a little. Leave out a detail here; mislead a client there. If you don’t do it, you could lose your job, and your family is counting on you.” - Desiring God
AI and Work: What Happens When AI Can Do Your Job Better?
“…this episode isn’t a simple rejection of AI but a careful exercise in discernment: learning where these tools may genuinely help, and where they risk hollowing out the human work God has given us to do.” - TGC
Leisure Doesn’t Make Us Happy
“Summertime and the living is easy. Vacations…. Wouldn’t it be great to always have leisure time like this? Not having to work. Devoting oneself to constant entertainment. Wouldn’t that be finally reaching the goal in our pursuit of happiness? No, actually.” - Veith
Bible engagement increases sense of calling, promotes human flourishing, ABS study finds
“Scripture-engaged adults report the highest confidence levels in their sense of calling, scoring 7.4 on researchers’ 10-point scale, compared to adults who don’t engage with Scripture, who scored 5.4 out of 10.” - Baptist Press
The Dangers of Doing Business with “Christians”
“ ‘Pastor, pastor—I just met my surgeon, and guess what? He is a CHRISTIAN!’ I must bite my tongue in the moment, but I’m thinking to myself, ‘But is he a good surgeon?’” - P&D
Did God Call Me to My Work? Is Calling a Christian Notion?
“It’s immediately obvious how to write books, adjudicate laws, or teach students in distinctly Christian ways; it’s less obvious how to cut grass or tighten a pipe fitting in ways that move society towards further righteousness.” - P&D
Working Without Recognition: Finding Motivation When No One Seems to Notice
“The longing to be seen and valued isn’t weakness. It’s deeply human. After all, God created us to work and intends for our work to matter.” - TGC
Does Work-from-Home Mean Work-Without-Rest?
“In the work-from-home world—and for many pastors, stay-at-home parents, or caretakers—this experience isn’t unusual. Even if our devices are silent, our minds keep humming. Our closed laptops sit on the table and whisper, ‘Just one quick thing …’” - TGC
Come to Jesus, All Those Who Feel Overwhelmed by Work
“One definition of ‘overwhelm’ is ‘[to] bury or drown beneath a huge mass.’ While our work might feel like a huge mass we’re buried or drowning beneath, God tells us in Scripture, ‘When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire you shall not be burned and the flame shall not consume you’ (Isa. 43:2).” - TGC