Biblical Teachings

PRACTICAL LIVING

There's a version of work that most of us fall into without ever choosing it on purpose. You clock in, you get through the list, you clock out, and the whole thing runs on autopilot somewhere between obligation and survival. It's not that you hate your job necessarily; it's just that somewhere along the way, work stopped being anything more than performance, something you do to be seen as competent, to hit a target, to avoid getting in trouble.

PRACTICAL LIVING

Here's a question worth asking yourself honestly, even if the answer makes you a little uncomfortable: where does your worth actually come from?

BIBLICAL STUDIES

We've talked about how you're a spirit, not just a body with a spirit tucked inside, and how you carry the image of God. But there's a question worth sitting with a bit longer: what does your spirit actually do? What's its role in your everyday life?

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Genesis doesn't stop at explaining how you were formed from dust and given breath (Genesis 2:7). It goes on to tell you why that matters. "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him" (Genesis 1:27). The Hebrew word for image, tselem, means likeness, resemblance, representation. And it gets repeated three times in two verses. God wanted this point made unmistakably clear. You carry His image. No other creature was given that.

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Have you ever noticed how often we describe ourselves in terms of what's happening to our bodies or our emotions? "I'm exhausted." "I'm so angry right now." "I'm just not feeling like myself today." We say these things as if they're the whole truth about who we are. But what if they're not? What if the tiredness, the anger, the "not feeling like myself" are all things happening to you, not things that define you? Scripture offers us a much deeper answer to the question "who am I?" It starts all the way back in Genesis, with a verse most of us have read a hundred times without ever pausing to consider what it's actually saying.

PRACTICAL LIVING

"Make your calling and election sure." — 2 Peter 1:10

PRACTICAL LIVING

Many Christian professionals quietly live two separate lives. Scripture never intended that split. And bridging it might be the most important thing you do this year.