Kathy and I were recently blessed to hear Tommy Emmanuel play guitar, with no vocals, at the 100th year celebration of the Grand Ole Opry. An Australian, Tommy was seven years old when he listened to a Grand Ole Opry radio program. That night he heard the renowned Chet Atkins play the guitar. Tommy told ...

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Working for an operating subsidiary of a larger company located in another state, Anne relished the relative autonomy of her role. Whenever she spent time at corporate headquarters, however, she came away discouraged with the politics and petty fights in the larger work group. It always took her a few days to cast off that ...

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It started innocently enough. Steven emailed me saying that he had been following our ministry and was considering a significant contribution to our work. Since I didn’t know him, nor could I find anything online about him beyond his own website, I was skeptical, but hopeful for a good result. I began asking our team ...

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According to ACLJ, the American Center for Law and Justice, an HR manager with Timken’s Missouri manufacturing plant was told to no longer wear a cross necklace or have a Bible on his desk. Because this violates this employee’s religious rights, ACLJ sent a demand notice to the company on behalf of this manager. Timken ...

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Used car dealer, Tricolor, cost multiple large banks hundreds of millions in charged off loans recently, reportedly due to fraud. In theory, banks are required to hold the title of every car they finance. In practice, holding titles becomes inconvenient when the dealership has significant volume. It’s not uncommon to see banks choose to trust ...

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Kirk Perry was only 70 days into becoming the interim CEO of Kenvue when he was blindsided by our current administration. According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Perry met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about some studies that linked Kenvue’s Tylenol to autism. Perry felt the meetings were moving in the right direction. Then, ...

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According to The History Channel, Pope Gregory III designated November 1st as All Saints Day. This was a time to honor the saints and martyrs of the Church. However, Celtic traditions believed that on October 31st the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. As Rome took over the Celts, ...

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Professors Denise Daniels and Elaine Ecklund developed a Faith at Work Matrix for the different ways we can live out our vocational calling. The final way, that Denise Daniels believes is sometimes overlooked by the faith at work movement, is serving others beyond work. Our work has an additional benefit from the intrinsic value of ...

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Professors Denise Daniels and Elaine Ecklund developed a Faith at Work Matrix for the different ways we can live out our vocational calling. The third way we leverage our work is to realize that work serves the common good. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited NASA. When he asked a janitor who was sweeping ...

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Professors Denise Daniels and Elaine Ecklund developed a Faith at Work Matrix on the different ways we can live out our vocational calling. The second approach is by serving others at work. These researchers discovered that one common way that we can use our work for God’s glory is by leveraging our workplace as an ...

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