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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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Trying to define excellence is like trying to say how long a string is.  I’ve talked a little about the process of determining our strengths, understanding our job, and defining expectations as a process to excellence.  And so, excellence will be different for everyone. But I’m reminded of another way to approach this.  One of [...]

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Friends, Welcome to 2011! Unless you are a Razorback fan in New Orleans for tomorrow night’s Sugar Bowl, you are likely at work today with a new year and new priorities staring you in the face. It has always been important to me to reflect on the year past and to pray about the year [...]

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Yesterday, our team spent some time praying, planning and preparing for this upcoming new year.  We are so pumped about how God is using WorkMatters and the opportunities he has provided.  I was thinking about all the wonderful places that God led us this past year and my thoughts kept going to our new ministry [...]

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Friends, Consider these words of the apostle Paul from his first letter to Timothy: “I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people.  Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.  Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live [...]

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As this new week begins, I know many of you are will be going back to work after a busy holiday weekend.  I hope that everyone had a fantastic time and were able to spend time with family and celebrating the birth of our Savior.  It has been non-stop for our family and now that [...]

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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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Ok, let’s go deep today. In your work, you make many decisions every day. You contemplate strategies for the future, right? Jesus gave us a couple of great examples why… Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough [...]

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The Lesson of the Ants

Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.  Learn from their ways and become wise.  Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer gathering food for the winter.  Proverbs 6: 6-8 It is pretty humbling to be getting instruction from ants.  But what models of [...]

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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:1 (NIV) We tend to place a lot of faith in our plans for the future. We are quick to brag about what we expect to accomplish. We take tomorrow for granted. The fact is, we don’t know [...]

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