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You Care? You Serve!

Posted in Encouragement, Faith and Work, Friendship, Hope, Influence, marketplace ministry, Relationships, Servant Leadership, Serve on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Hey continues his outstanding and practical teaching on what Serving looks like at work.  Print this and and put it where you will see it everyday when you get to the office! This week at work, I took a close look at what I actually accomplished in serving others. My personal goal has always [...]

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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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The Time for Influence

Posted in Encouragement, Faith and Work, Influence, Time on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

During our discussions on Influence we covered intentionally aligning the sources of what influences us with how we want to influence others.  But, we also need to talk about the time for influence. Jesus said “It’s urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in [...]

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Watching the Game Film

Posted in Change, Encouragement, Faith, God, Jesus, Marriage on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

What would happen if your work today was captured on video? I’m talking every minute…all day long. Every conversation. Every decision. Every action. Every reaction. Every thought (are you kidding me?)… all captured on video. Then tomorrow, we sit down together and watch the game film! Monday night, I attended an incredible event…Raise the Bar [...]

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Encouragement at Work

Posted in Attitude, Encouragement on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Is there a better “feel good” word than encouragement? Have you ever received bad encouragement? Do you receive too much encouragement? Do you give too much encouragement? This past Monday I participated in a very simple, but incredibly powerful exercise on encouragement. Prior to sharing a devo and our WorkMatters vision with the employees of NorthStar [...]

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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…Speak Up!

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Encouragement, Friendship, Honesty, Influence, Mentoring, Prayer, Relationships, Uncategorized on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Friends, Often times I have felt at a loss for words.  A situation presents itself and it feels like I should say something, but I don’t  because I am scared that I will not say the right thing.   Good intentions and all, but the word of encouragement or the word of thankfulness does not ever [...]

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60 Days…Power Through Prayer

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Encouragement, Planning, Prayer, Uncategorized on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Friends, E.M Bounds wrote what many consider the “greatest book on prayer ever written.”  The book is called, “Power Through Prayer.” I remember reading it for the first time when I was a freshman at Harding University many years ago. It was one of those books that had a profound impact on my spiritual growth [...]

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60 Days…2010 Joseph Project

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Economy, Encouragement, Job Search, The Joseph Project on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For all of you that have joined us in this 60 Days of Prayer journey, you must read on. One of the highlights of our 2010 was experienced yesterday at the 50th session of The Joseph Project in 2010! It was incredible. Over 80 people between jobs, their spouses, and alumni of The Joseph Project [...]

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60 Days…How Much Do You Care?

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Attitude, Encouragement, Excellence, Influence, Prayer, Relationships on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Friends, Over the past week I have found myself in a unusual setting.  I have spent the past five days caring for my Father in a hospital and as of yesterday in a skilled nursing facility in southeastern Ohio.  These kinds of facilities are unique in that you get to watch people doing their work [...]

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