The Christian Working Woman

I found a brief article in a Christian professional magazine entitled “Three Marketplace Worldviews,” taken from truthnetwork.org, and I want to talk about those three marketplace worldviews. Hopefully you realize your worldview has a great influence on your life. If you view your world through an incorrect paradigm, it will cause you to make wrong decisions and poor choices and lead you down wron...

Presented by Lauren Stibgen With all this talk about how important work is to God and for the kingdom, it may feel like a heavy burden as a follower of Jesus. But you are not called to doing good works and making disciples alone! We should work, yoked with Jesus, walking with him and considering his ways. Christ gives us a clear example of how to love others well. Righteousness and justice are the...

Presented by Lauren Stibgen Love your neighbor as yourself. Sometimes work is difficult. But what is our work anyways? I mean the work God has for us. If you are working today feeling like your job has no purpose for God, think again! Let us consider how to stir one another to love and good works (Hebrews 10:24). I want to stir you up to consider that God’s work is multiplied though you. What are...

Presented by Lauren Stibgen Sometimes the mention of work doesn’t elicit happy and joyous feelings. And, knowing God created us in his image for good works which he prepared beforehand makes us sigh as we think, is my workday over yet?! All jokes about TGIF, working for the weekend, and anything else related to not being at work feels real for all of us at some point. What can we do when we don’t...

Presented by Lauren Stibgen God chose to create men and women in his image! God created us to work and tend all the creation he had made both before the original sin of Adam and Eve and after. You and I are living in the after, and the good work we do for the kingdom today matters for eternity and for the promise of a new heaven and new earth! Starting to view your work in this light may take some...

Presented by Lauren Stibgen We are made for work. Think about this: Has there ever been a day you woke up not thinking about doing something? The answer may be a quick yes! If I am honest, I have had days when I wake up dreaming of doing absolutely nothing—being idle, quiet, enjoying leisure—but this quickly fades. Even when we daydream about what we’d rather be doing than going to work, the daydr...

Let’s review four differences between work and jobs. First, your job may employ none of your gifts; your work employs all your gifts. Second, your job will inevitably result in income; your work may never result in income. Third, there is always someone else who can do your job; there is never anyone else who can do your work. And fourth, your job may sometimes produce frustration; your work will...

I’ve been talking this week about God’s promises and his faithfulness to keep his promises. A promise is only as good as the one who promised, right? We’ve had far too many examples of politicians who promise so much and deliver so little, so that now in general we just don’t trust politicians. The Pew Research Center reports only 20% of Americans today say they can trust the government to do what...

I can well remember as a child singing the great gospel song, “Standing on the Promises”. Maybe you sang it, too. I remember the words well: Standing on the promises of Christ my King, Through eternal ages let his praises ring; Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing, Standing on the promises of God. It’s not a song we sing much anymore, but the message is still relevant. As Christ-followers,...

As you begin this new year, are you wondering what lies ahead? Does the future seem confusing or unclear? Are you trying to determine what your next steps should be? God’s Word has some great and precious promises to help you. For example, Isaiah 30:21 is a great promise: Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it” (Is...

This is program number 10,092 of The Christian Working Woman daily edition. That means for over 2000 weeks I have been broadcasting the good news that God’s Word is relevant to our lives. For over 41 years God has sustained this ministry so we can encourage you to put God’s Word into practice in your life; to live out your faith on your job and everywhere else. And we’ve made it all these weeks an...

It’s a new year! This is a good time to focus our minds on God’s promises to us for the new year. The Bible gives us hundreds of promises, yet we often don’t avail ourselves of the comfort, strength, and guidance there for us. I want to remind you of some of God’s promises for you in 2026. In 2 Peter 1, we are told, His divine power has given us his very great and precious promises, so that throug...

Let’s start with some basic definitions between our job and our work: Our job is what we do day-in and day-out to bring in income. It is the duties we perform, most often for an employer, sometimes as our own employer, for which we receive money. A company’s job descriptions are written for whoever happens to have the job. Once the job description is written, the search begins to find a pers...

I’ve been talking about the loneliness epidemic, which is growing in our culture. If you are struggling with loneliness, remember first it’s part of being human. And yes, Christians are vulnerable to feelings of loneliness, and it is not necessarily a spiritual issue. Loneliness is a human condition common to everyone at some time in their life. However, if you deal with loneliness in the wrong wa...

I’ve been sharing some thoughts on the loneliness epidemic. It’s amazing how many people are very lonely. God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity. Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land (Psalm 68:6). I have found this verse to be exactly true in my life. As I have allowed God to make a home for me and to accept his presence as sufficient in my l...

Are you a lonely person? We’re talking about the loneliness epidemic. With the presence of Christ in our lives, we need not be lonely, no matter how alone we may be. Why, then, are so many Christians lonely? Because they don’t practice the presence of Christ in their lives. You “practice” his presence—you develop the habit of calling on him, talking to him, inviting him to be a part of...

I’m talking about loneliness. Not just missing someone you love, but the invasive sense of loneliness that controls the lives of so many people. Indeed, we find ourselves in a loneliness epidemic today, with more and more people feeling alone, left out, and isolated. It’s important to understand that activity, people, marriage are not the cures for loneliness. If they are, then we are doomed...

Did you realize loneliness is at epidemic levels? If you google “loneliness epidemic,” you will find pages of articles on the effect of loneliness. We have more and easier ways of communicating than ever before, and yet indeed our technological advances are part of the cause for this loneliness epidemic, because we are more isolated than ever. Loneliness is that empty spot in the pit of your stoma...

Mary had an accepting heart, one that remained simple and uncomplicated. And she had a trusting heart, because she had obviously been well trained in the Word of God and knew its promises and prophecies. When this incredible message came to her from Gabriel that she would bear this miracle baby, she was prepared to trust because she knew God’s Word. Let’s look further at this story to...

I hope your celebration of Christmas yesterday was full of joy with friends and family. This week I’ve been focusing on all the blessings we have because of that first Christmas. I want to quote today from the Advent book, Joy to the World , by John Piper. He writes: My favorite Christmas text centers on humility. . . Though he was in the form of God, [Jesus] did not count equality with God a thin...

Merry Christmas! I pray your celebration of Christmas today will be blessed. What part of the Christmas story is your favorite? Is it the incredible birth of Jesus to a young virgin girl? Her role in life was anything but easy, but Scripture says she was blessed among women. Or you could choose the story of the angels appearing to the shepherds. What a sight that must have been! I keep imagining h...

Did you ever wonder what happened to all the gold, frankincense, and myrrh the wisemen gave to baby Jesus? I’m looking at some unusual things about the Christmas story you may never have thought of before. We don’t know how many wisemen followed the star to Jesus or how long it took them, but we know they somehow heard about it, for they asked, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For...

Christmas 2025 is almost here. Let’s use this as a time to focus on the Christmas account of the birth of the Christ-child and discover unique facts about Christmas we may not have ever considered. For example, how about those shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night (Luke 2:8). Who were these guys anyway? All we know about them is they were shepherds in...

It’s Christmas week—a week filled with meaning for those of us who follow Christ. Each day during this special week, I’ll focus on one part of the Christmas story—perhaps a part you’ve never paused to consider before. My hope is we will spend this week centered on the true person of Christmas, Jesus Christ, and celebrate him with joy. Think about Mary’s remarkable journey with Joseph from Nazareth...

For those of us who are personally acquainted with the Savior who was born that first Christmas day, Christmas holds particular significance. However, we’ve romanticized the story of Christmas to the place that the manger scene and the people involved seem like actors in a play. We rarely stop to think that they were real people, in anything but a romantic setting. That’s why I’d like...