How do you weather the news when it seems like one piece of bad news after another...
Do you have a resolution for 2018? Learn from our writers how to invite God into your plans. Trust his strength and...
With the New Year almost upon us, we may feel like something is holding us back from newness at work. Internal and...
The days grow shorter, the skies grow darker, and cold and snow plague our commutes. Just as we feel the physical change...
Ever feel like a zombie on Monday morning? Or are you spooked by troubling conflicts, bad bosses, and overwhelming schedules? This week...
Sometimes work is exciting, engaging, and challenging. We make discoveries, help other people and build something worth...
It’s no secret: lots of people are searching for jobs right now. Some folks have lost their jobs. Others have jobs, but...
John Solheim, CEO of Phoenix-based Ping Golf, recalls when the United States Golf Association outlawed products he and his father had worked...
Diligence, persistence and growth through retained earnings moved Ping Golf from the Solheim garage to its 35-acre campus in Phoenix. From the father-son team, the company has grown to over 900 employees who...
Scott Mooney is the founder of Country Supply based in Ottumwa, Iowa. He built his horse supply business into a catalog company with 450,000 customers generating $17 million in annual sales. TRANSCRIPT SCOTT...
Ken Done wakes up in the night with ideas he can't wait to try. He even paints on his dining room table...
The Souto Brothers sold their Miami-based coffee roasting company in 2011 for $360 million. They proved that honesty and hard work can create a strong return on investment. TRANSCRIPT HATTIE: So how do...
She lived for nine days after she last took water. Surely her torturous final days aren’t what we imagine when we think...
He walked to the podium and paused. Then he punctured the silence with five words: “We,” he said, “are a temporary substance.”
Steve was in the crowded Portland Airport when he spotted two women.
My agreement with The High Calling has me writing one 700-word Reflection each day, five days a week, 46 weeks a year.
Jesus warned that hypocrites pray before people, but his disciples were to pray to God. Specifically he said, “Pray to your Father...
Making resolutions? Try working towards a strong finish, not just a new beginning.
Am I laboring on even as darkness falls? Or have I succumbed to thinking I can wield power without humility?
Rather than let my employment challenges drag me down, I’ve decided to take back the workplace for God’s glory, and I’m doing...
At first glance, Psalm 121:7 offers tremendous assurance. The Lord will keep us from all harm! Wow! That sounds wonderful. If I...
A well-known writer named Wilford Funk loved words. He wrote multiple books to help people increase their word power. ...
On January 12, 2010, the people of Haiti were in dire straits as a result of a major earthquake that rocked their nation. As often happens in a tragedy like this, many people responded.
Bob Fraley, one of the top track and field coaches in America, faced a critical career decision. After twenty-three years at Fresno State, the school was eliminating track and field. Fraley's...
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we are told, “Now when Jesus had finished...
Katherine Leary Alsdorf is co-author with Timothy Keller of Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work (Dutton, 2012). She came...
Resources from The High Calling for ambitious Christians who want to serve others and glorify God through their work.
Late January through about February, I start to get cranky. I think, deep down, more of my less-than-savory attitude has to do...
When the going gets tough, Isaiah reminds the Israelites to remember the Lord. Isaiah recounts God’s steadfast love, remembering everything God had...
Psalm 57:5 is the basis of dozens of hymns and songs of praise, and for good reason...
Ken Duncan is one of the world’s most important landscape photographers. He and his wife, Pam, founded what today includes three galleries and a profitable Web site that sell Ken’s amazing photography, as...
In 1911, Cal Rogers answered a national challenge to fly from New York to Long Beach in 30 days. Day one, he flew 105 miles. Day two, he crashed into a chicken coop.
My question stumped Susan, a diligent job seeker, over coffee that morning: “What do you care about that’s larger than you?”
I’m convinced that we wouldn’t have so many New Year’s resolutions—kept or unkept—if the stretch from Thanksgiving Turkey Feasts to New Year Ball Drops occurred in, say, August. We’ve packed... ...
Though I'm sure I heard the Christmas song "In the Bleak Midwinter" sometime during the first three decades of my life, it never grabbed my attention until about twenty years ago. I had...
Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the...
Psalm 124 offers a stirring word of encouragement.
O LORD, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day. Psalm 88:13 Chances are you won’t hear...
“So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will...
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Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I ask him, as we head down to the creek. I want to be healthier, he says.
There is a type of person in this world who can have long serious discussions about what zombies represent in horror movies...
Was there work no one else wanted? People said, "Give it to Janet!" Around the office, in fact, "Janet!" was practically a catch phrase for the small stuff. You’d think she’d hate it...
Here’s something for you to daydream about: what if you had been given a substantial chunk of money when you were 19 years old, and then were told to go follow your dreams?
God has only one loom. You wouldn't think so by the fragmentation of our lives. Our days look like the scrap floor...
Psalm 77, written by Asaph, begins with a profound expression of anguish. The psalmist has found himself in a terribly difficult and painful situation. He has cried out to God, even shouting and...
I have a little garden plot in the alley behind our house where I try to grow a few vegetables throughout the...
A hard, cold winter greeted the Pilgrims who reached Plymouth Rock in 1620. Miles Standish was Military Captain for the Colony and one of the few to escape illness. His wife, Rose, was less...
Quaint winter scenes often depict skaters on scenic New England ice or bare aspens framed with Rocky Mountain grandeur. But a common La Guardia winter picture is New Yorkers dressed in knit black...
The Servant of God in Isaiah is a “man of sorrows.” The Hebrew phrase (’ish makh’ovot) means, literally, “man of pains,” and...
In Isaiah 49, the Lord speaks to his Servant, sometimes pictured as Israel, and at other times pictured as an Israelite who...
My father had a work plan that Benjamin Franklin would have approved of. Somehow it never seemed to work out that way for me.
Bonnie Wurzbacher weighs in on the importance of women leaders in business and church.
Bob is a nationally known journalist who once peddled his own column, newspaper by newspaper, to get it syndicated. Whenever he visited new towns or cities, Bob met with the local editors to...
I envied my friend's job: five times a week he types out a column for a big city newspaper, poking fun at local politicians and red tape . . . and gets paid...
By rep. 11 of a 15-rep. set of exquisite tortures devised by my half-my-age-but-twice-as-buff trainer, I was struggling. He noticed. (He always does.) My arms were beginning to wobble a little, and...
Author and educator John Erskine was 14 when his piano teacher asked him if he practiced an hour at a time. John said yes. His teacher said, "Well, don’t! When you grow up...
Phyllis is amazing. Day after day she shows up for volunteer work. She cooks for people, visits them, cares for them.
Remember the story of Joseph, the spoiled son—sold into slavery, who became the number two leader of all Egypt, the model business manager? As a young slave, Joseph soon oversaw his master’s...
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race...
The Bible’s story of Joseph resonates with everyday life. When we were young we didn’t get everything we thought we deserved. We studied hard, but didn’t get the jobs we wanted. We married...
The story of Joseph has many insights that apply to work today.
The last line of Nehemiah 1 identifies him as “cupbearer to the king” (Neh. 1:11). This means...
In the parable of the persistent widow (Luke 18:1-8), a poor, powerless person (the widow) persists in nagging a corrupt, powerful person...
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