Doing Your Job
Do good work and live out your faith
The ServiceMaster Story: Navigating Tension between People and Profit
Albert M. Erisman, Hendrickson Publishers (January 2020) When the Business Roundtable announced, in August 2019, that businesses should no longer have a singular focus on profit, analysts asked: How do businesses deal with the “quick-buck” pressures from Wall Street? One answer lies in The...
The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work
Does our day-to-day work have any ultimate value from the perspective of eternity? Should our work be seen as a discipline through which we connect spiritually with God and others? Is ordinary work the primary way we can participate in God's mission to make all things new? What is the...
What Difference Does God’s Presence Make in Your Work?
It’s easy to get isolated in your work, especially in today’s cubicle world. But the fact is, with God, we are never alone, not even at work. My view of work rests squarely upon the fact that God is present with us in Christ and we can experience his nearness at work. Seeing this theme...
The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
If you found Gary Chapman's book on the five love languages helpful, you'll enjoy his new book with Paul White that takes their expertise to work. Just like people resonate with particular expressions of love in the family, employees and co-workers have certain ways they like to be...
A Praying Life | Paul Miller
There are a host of books on prayer. I've even written one myself. But my friend Jay Hofler introduced me to Paul Miller's book a Praying Life that might be the most important book I've read on prayer. It is profound in its simplicity, and, more important to me personally, it...
Every Job a Parable: What Walmart Greeters, Nurses & Astronauts Tell Us About God
Okay, my work matters to God. But how, you ask? John Van Sloten can help. He loves practicing the spiritual discipline of watching people work. For his new book, Every Job a Parable, he interviewed Walmart greeters, engineers, auto mechanics,...
Joy for the World
Christianity in America is losing ground. Our friend and fellow convener of the 2016 Faith@Work Summit asks a timely question? Can the church regain its cultural influence? In this though provoking book, Forster examines how the church lost its culture-shaping voice and what we can do to...
How Do You Handle Emotions at Work?
How do you juggle workplace emotions? Dark and stormy seasons blow your way. Spectacular new opportunities emerge. Grief and loss descend. Financial crises loom. Office politics and busyness press on your soul. What about romantic tensions, rivalry, and bouts of bitterness? Must leaders...
Loving Monday - Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul
John Beckett graduated from M.I.T. in 1960 and worked in the aerospace industry for three years before joining his father in a small family-owned manufacturing business. When his father died suddenly in 1965, John was thrust into the daunting task of running the family business. A few...
The Accidental Executive: Lessons on Business, Faith and Calling from the Life of Joseph
Albert M. Erisman, Hendrickson Publishers, 2015 Mention the biblical patriarch Joseph and most people will think of his dreams, his multi-colored coat, and his band of jealous brothers who tried to kill him. Yet Joseph was an astute businessman and prudent leader in who saved the...
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