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Monthly Archives: April 2024


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FAITH AND WORK: Connecting Sunday to Monday

Faith and Work News ~ Links to Interesting Articles

  • God Still Uses Cracked Pots. Russ Gehrlein writes “I believe that many Christians do not experience God’s presence at work because they feel unworthy.”
  • Why Jesus is the Greatest Leadership Model of All Time. Phyllis Hendry Halverson writes “There is no need to search further. We have the perfect leadership role model in Jesus. We simply need to follow him and allow him to work in us and through us.”
  • A Good Job for Life. Howard Graham writes “Followers of Jesus are better equipped in the marketplace than those who are not, because they have the most meaningful and purpose filled job description.”
  • Mere Christians: Skye Jethani. Skye Jethani joins Jordan Raynor on the Mere Christians podcast to talk about what heaven means for your work today.
  • Mere Christians: Gary Chapman. Gary Chapman, author of “The Five Love Languages”, joins Jordan Raynor on the Mere Christians podcast to talk about how to learn the language of your co-workers without even asking.

Click on ‘Continue reading’ for:
• More links to interesting articles
• The Top 10 Faith and Work Quotes of the Week
• Faith and Work Book Review ~ Women, Work & Calling: Step Into Your Place in God’s World by Joanna Meyer
• Quotes from the book Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing Shalom in Every Corner of Society by Amy Sherman. Continue reading →


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Leadership Attributes: Vision


In our series looking at leadership attributes, we now look at vision. Why do people follow a leader? Most likely it is because that leader has cast a compelling vision for making things better for them personally, and possibly also for the common good. A good leader convinces people that they will be able to bring the vision to fruition, and have successfully influenced others to follow them.

Leadership is about moving an organization (church, business, country, etc.) forward, improving them, and making things better. Harry Reeder in his book 3D Leadership: Defining, Developing and Deploying Christian Leaders Who Can Change the World, defines leadership as a leader influencing others to effectively achieve a defined mission together. John Maxwell famously goes even further and states that “Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less”. The way to influence others to follow you to is develop and communicate (or cast) a compelling vision. Continue reading →