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10 Lessons Learned from Jeff Long

Posted in Adversity, Choices, Honesty, Influence, Integrity, Leadership, Relationships, Vision, Wisdom, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »

The last seven days have yielded one of the most powerful displays of leadership that I have ever witnessed. Even if you are not a sports fan, you have likely heard the recent saga of University of Arkansas Football Coach Bobby Petrino. While  there are undoubtedly critical lessons we need to learn from Coach Petrino’s [...]

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Your Road Warrior Co-Workers

Posted in Adversity, Balance, Choices, Contentment, Decisions, Integrity, Judgment, Prayer, Relationships, Travel on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

My wife works at the airport here in Northwest Arkansas (XNA).  She said yesterday was probably one of the worst days she has ever had and she has worked there for almost four years.  It was a combination of things that made it difficult, but the hardest was having to tell people who had bought [...]

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Showing Up to Serve

Posted in Adversity, Encouragement, Faith and Work, Friendship, Serve on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Rob Hey continues to share his powerful insights regarding how we can more effectively serve those we work with.  This is a powerful story! A few weeks ago, one of my fellow co-workers experienced some unexpected major health issues and ended up needing open heart surgery.  It was a shock to everyone at the office [...]

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Lessons Learned from the Tornado

Posted in Adversity, Faith and Work, Leadership, Planning, Plans, Serve, Team on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Hey continues to share his thoughts  this month on how we can serve more effectively at work. It is amazing to see people around the office that will step up and serve when the time calls for it.  We all have talents and gifts that can be used in powerful ways if we will [...]

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Inspiration for Relationship with God at Work

Posted in Adversity, Faith, Faith and Work, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Influence, Jesus, Perspective, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We are blogging this month on the first of  Seven Pillars…Relationship. Specifically, how we can walk with God all day, every day, but especially in our work. But it’s hard, isn’t it? The menial tasks. The grind. Deadlines. Worry. Money…and the list goes on. But God calls us to see it differently, doesn’t he?  He [...]

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Finishing Strong

Posted in Adversity, Job Search, The Joseph Project on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Finishing strong is something all of us want to do. Finish strong each day. Finish strong in our job. Finish strong in our faith. As a valued partner of WorkMatters, we want you to be aware of a significant shift in our marketplace ministry. Wednesday morning we formally announced that the time has come to retire The [...]

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Dogs and God (and Work?)

Posted in Adversity, God, Relationships on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I read this message this morning from a “young professional” friend of mine   (his profession is pouring into Jr High and High School students). Read his message…and then consider how perfectly applicable it is to our work! The only time I ever cry when watching a movie is when something bad happens to a dog. It’s absolutely gut wrenching, like a paper [...]

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60 Days…Big Decisions?

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Adversity, Encouragement, Hope, Job Search, Perspective, Prayer, Relationships, Trust on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A buddy stopped by today and had some interesting news about a couple of people we both knew.  It seems major decisions in one friends life had occurred that resulted in a downstream change of direction for the other person.  As a result, one friend seemed to now be taking on a much greater risk [...]

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60 Days….A Story from the Battlefield

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Adversity, Faith and Work, Influence, perseverence, Wisdom on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was shocked to find myself in the CEO’s office that afternoon.  One of my “trusted” co-workers had apparently gone to HR and inquired about his options resulting from a conversation we had late one Friday afternoon.  He was a total non-believer and we were having one of those talks about what we were doing [...]

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60 Days….A Battlefield Prayer

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Adversity, Patience, perseverence, Prayer, Trust on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In response to my post a few days ago regarding the use of pre-written prayers, a friend sent me a note saying that the following prayer  sits on his desk and he prays it daily.  He told me he would not mind if I shared it with all of you as well. “Lord, I need [...]

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