Reprinted from Eternity. The flight was bumpy. We had taken off 90 minutes late, but the jet stream meant that we arrived on time, and the pilots were excited at the speed of the run. I met my host at the airport: Steve Lindsey, head of the Center for Faith+Work in Los Angeles. It was a long way to go…
Reprinted from Eternity. My friend Anthony told me an amazing story that illustrates the complicated concepts around serving, leading and being served. At the time Anthony held a senior role in a global community development charity. The organization did a lot of work funding churches in India to support their communities, and he travelled there to inspect the work. One…
Reprinted from Eternity. A couple of years ago, I started researching and telling stories of some of the men and women in Australia’s past who demonstrated faith–work integration, that is, the ability to seamlessly move from Sunday to Monday. Nellie Martyn was one of my favorites. Nellie Constance Martyn (1887–1926) is one of those women whose story makes you wonder…
Reprinted from Eternity. The Importance of Learning about Worldviews We have just celebrated Easter, such a significant plot twist in the Christian story. It is a key component of the Christian worldview. A friend of mine describes worldviews as “the stories we live by.” I love that definition because it makes it more tangible and less scary. The reality is…
Reprinted from Eternity. Christopher Petschack is 21 months into a two-years Masters course through Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. The course is focused on helping students to practice faith–work integration as they learn applied leadership and theology. Christopher is a young leader at a Christian school in Sydney. Here are some excerpts from his monthly reflections submitted throughout the course.…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part seven of a series. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 This is the final of seven devotions dealing with some false stories about work which we might hear about, or even unconsciously absorb; as well…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part six of a series. “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part five of a series. [Jesus] is before all things, and in him all things hold together….For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part four of a series. To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.It will produce thorns…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part three of a series. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground…The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and…
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