The Word Before Work

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: 2 Corinthians on Work Devotional: 4 of 7 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the messag...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: 2 Corinthians on Work Devotional: 3 of 7 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18) If you’re not careful, this well-known verse can be easily misinterpreted to mean that the only t...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: 2 Corinthians on Work Devotional: 2 of 7 Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. (2 Corinth...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: 2 Corinthians on Work Devotional: 1 of 7 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had rec...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: Half-Truths About Heaven Devotional: 4 of 4 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the li...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: Half-Truths About Heaven Devotional: 3 of 4 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve cro...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: Half-Truths About Heaven Devotional: 2 of 4 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. (Revelation 21:1) Countless sermons and songs have convinced us of this half-truth about heaven: Half-Truth...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: Half-Truths About Heaven Devotional: 1 of 4 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15) “The kingdom of God” was the dominant theme of Jesus’s teachings. But he also preached about “the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 4:17). Are...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: The Creator in You  Devotional: 5 of 5  The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. (Psalm 37:23)  In this short series, we’ve seen that God works and called us to work on his behalf. But why? To what end? How exactly does our work matter to...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: The Creator in You  Devotional: 4 of 5  Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:26, 28)  After the first six days of cre...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: The Creator in You  Devotional: 3 of 5  So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27) As we’ve seen over the past two weeks, we worship a God who works! And next week, we’ll see that God has created us t...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: The Creator In You  Devotional: 2 of 5  Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com --  Series: The Creator in You  Devotional: 1 of 5  Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” (John 5:17)  I begin my new children’s book by saying, “In the very beginning, a long time ago, God created the world so that we would all know that He...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com  --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked “In the Beginning”  Devotional: 7 of 7  The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. (Genesis 2:15)  What God created “in the beginning” is remarkable. But what’s equally remarkable is what he did not create.  He create...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com  --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked “In the Beginning”  Devotional: 6 of 7  The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:9)...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com  --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked “In the Beginning”  Devotional: 5 of 7  Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. (Genesis 2:1-2)  It feels like there’s b...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked "In the Beginning"  Devotional: 4 of 7  God set [the lights and stars] in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morni...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked "In the Beginning"  Devotional: 3 of 7  Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed a...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked "In the Beginning"  Devotional: 2 of 7  And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:3-4)  I finished writing my last book on a Friday and started writing the next...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: 7 Ways God Worked "In the Beginning"  Devotional: 1 of 7  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,”...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: A Gospel Perspective in a Post-Pandemic World  Devotional: 4 of 4  In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple of the Lord. He said: “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the mone...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: A Gospel Perspective on Work in a Post-Pandemic World  Devotional: 3 of 4  Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses. (Proverbs 28:27)  It didn’t take long after our lockdown two years ago to realize that the pandemic wa...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   --  Series: A Gospel Perspective on Work in a Post-Pandemic World  Devotional: 2 of 4  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)  Since...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com -- Series: A Gospel Perspective on Work in a Post-Pandemic World  Devotional: 1 of 4  You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12)  It’s clear that one of the most lasting change...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his...