The following post is the final installment in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. The modern evangelical church, instead of providing a worldview that will challenge the tragic impoverishment of the animistic and
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The following post is fifth in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. In some developing countries you will find men with very long fingernails on their pinky finger as a sign of
The following post is fourth in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. Billions of people in the developing world are also dying to hear this open invitation from the Creator and Savior
The following blog is the third in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. Social critic Os Guinness describes the shift away from a biblical worldview in Western societies as a move from a
The following blog is the second in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book, LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. Mother Teresa, visiting the city of New York from her home city of Calcutta—perhaps one of the most physically poor cities
The following blog is first in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. Most adults in the Western world spend half of their waking hours at work. In many developing countries, the number of
I enjoyed reading “Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues” by Stephen Malanga. Darrow talks extensively about the Protestant work ethic that can help impoverished peoples understand the biblical worldview that lifts people out of poverty and
The word “retirement,” like the word “divorce,” has never been part of my vocabulary. My sense has been that if we are in the King’s service–if the backdrop of our lives is the coming of the kingdom of God–then retirement is simply not a Christian concept. We can speak of
Avoiding “The Europe Syndrome” In my last two blogs, we looked at the essential roles of families, churches and civil government in fostering healthy societies, and how socialist and communist states are defined by the encroachment of the civil government into the roles of both families and churches. The result
As I continue to reflect on the unemployment in America, I’m forced to think of what we are missing in the biblical message. Yesterday I learned about a small Christian community that was gifted with the worst lands on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Within a relatively short time, they
