3 Ways to Love Your Unlovely Colleagues
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Sacrificial love is hard, even when it is directed towards someone we truly love.
But loving someone we don’t love—someone who makes our life miserable and difficult, well, that feels almost impossible at times!
5 Truths For When You’re Afraid of Sharing the Gospel
Sharing our faith often feels scary. Whilst many of us would love to be the kind of Christian who introduces other people to Jesus, we can sometimes get stuck in a vicious cycle.
3 Priorities to Take to Work This Year
A new year often brings with it a renewed focus (and maybe even resolutions) for how we want to live differently this year.
But how much of your thinking about the new year is related to your work?
How to Decide If It's Time to Leave Your Job
It’s a perennial question, and one most of us will face during our working life—when is it time to leave a job?
How Can I Know What God Wants Me to Do with My Life?
How can I know God’s will for my life? Am I on the right track? What will happen if I don’t follow His will for me?
3 Problems When We Tie Our Identity to Our Work
What questions do you normally ask someone when you meet them for the first time? My guess is that after asking their name, one of the most likely questions you ask is, “What do you do for work?”.
But have you noticed how people often respond? Not by saying, “I work as a lawyer”, but “I am a lawyer”. We live in a world of “I am what I do”, where our identity is tied to our work.
2 Moves Towards Building a Better Relationship with Your Workmates
When two sinful people work together, it’s inevitable that we’ll rub one another up the wrong way.
That’s perhaps the starting point to building great working relationships with our colleagues—recognising that challenges and frustrations with colleagues will always be a feature of work this side of eternity.
But that doesn’t mean we should simply resign ourselves to this fact and just “suck it up”. The world will encourage us to respond by moving away, and that does make sense, but it’s not what God would want us to do.
How to Come Out as a Christian at Work
It’s scary to be a Christian in today’s workplace.
If anyone finds out that we’re a Christian, there’s a good chance they will automatically assume we are haters, bigots, and racists. We will have awkward conversations defending our views on religion. So it’s natural that we want to stay quiet, never let anyone know that we’re a Christian, and avoid any talk about Jesus.
Is There Room for Doubt in Christianity?
Doubting is normal.
Uncomfortable as it can be, wondering whether we really have “got it right” is as human as it is inevitable, especially when we’re swimming each day in a sea of different beliefs.