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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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Have You Thought About Praying for Your Work?

Posted in Faith, Faith and Work, Prayer, Relationships, Team, Work, Workplace Prayer on March 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Today our team started off the day/week doing something that I know most do not have the opportunity to do.  We begin each week with a staff meeting, but we kick off the staff meeting spending some time in prayer for our work.  It is a rich experience and one that we do not take [...]

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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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Who Gets the Credit?

Posted in Excellence, Goals, Pride, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Team, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Each of us have been given a specific role in our work. For some of us, it’s clearly defined. For others, it seems to change every day. But we each have our gifts and abilities that we bring to the job. Some of us are really good at what we do. Our impact is real. [...]

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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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Why Don’t I Abide with God at Work?

Posted in Faith and Work, Fear, God, Jesus, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

As we discuss the Relationship Pillar and this idea of abiding with God at work, the first question has to be…why don’t we do it? We talked about this question in several discussion groups at last week’s Eight to Five event. Here are some answers: Fear –  it could cost us something… relationship, $, promotion, job! Busyness – #1 [...]

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Seven Pillars of Faith at Work

Posted in Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“But, how do you do it? I understand intellectually living my faith at work, but what does that really mean? And how do I do it?” That question, asked in a variety of different ways, is the most often asked question of WorkMatters. Last Friday, we launched a new flavor of our Eight to Five marketplace ministry focused [...]

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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…The Joy of Forgiveness

Posted in 60 Days of Prayer, Healing, joy, Relationships, Truth, Wisdom, tagged on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

C.S Lewis writes that “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”  He goes on to say that ” To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life—to keep on forgiving the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter or the deceitful son—how can we do [...]

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