I spent much of my twenties feeling like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. I longed to use the gifts God had given me in a career I loved, but I felt stuck. I lived in a city where software engineers were celebrated, while creative people were often overlooked. And that [...]
You were never meant to drift through life on autopilot—waking, working, surviving, and repeating the cycle without joy or direction. God did not breathe life into you so you could merely exist. You were created to live with purpose, to move with intention, and to shine with meaning. Too often, people settle into a quiet [...]
At the conferences where I speak, I always invite participants to fill out a program feedback card. At a recent event one woman lovingly wrote, “Keep making Jesus famous!” Her words blessed me because in recent weeks I have been pondering how God wants His children to glorify Him, or in simpler terms, to “make [...]
Many Christians feel their work lives and making Christ famous are incompatible. They think, How can I glorify God when I am sitting behind a desk at an insurance office? How can I make Him famous when I am picking up trash on the street, cutting hair, teaching school, or drilling teeth? Do you believe [...]
God has a two-fold Master Plan: 1) To display His glory throughout the world and 2) To have fellowship with humanity, His creation. God wants you to participate in this Master Plan. Your participation requires that you invite Christ into your life for relationship with Him, and that you pursue a life mission to carry [...]
In the spring of 1991, I was 13 years old. The week before spring break, my Dad learned he had to take a business trip to Louisiana, which meant he would be gone the entire week I was out of school. This news threatened to put a damper on the fun of a great [...]
God has been teaching me to see my career as something that’s not mine. Rather, just like everything else in life, it’s all about Jesus. But wouldn't it be a lot easier to know what Christ expects from us at our jobs if He would show up one day in the break room or by [...]
The annual review is a standard fixture of corporate culture. Whether your current job employs this practice or not, regular evaluation is a valuable process. The good news is that you’re not dependent on your employer to conduct a review. As this year draws to a close, let me encourage you to spend some time [...]
If you have a full-time job, chances are good that you spend around one third of every weekday enclosed in an office or cubicle. That's a huge part of your day! When you consider that roughly another third of your day is spent sleeping, it doesn't leave much time for everything else in your life. [...]
When I left full-time ministry after fourteen years, it was not a decision I made quickly or easily. Thankfully, I didn’t have to leave the ministry because of moral failure or incompetence. In fact, things were going better than ever. That’s when I learned that sometimes God will lead you in a different direction when [...]
