Short description: In an increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we can lose sight of God's plan for work. Gifted communicator Timothy Keller draws on the wisdom in God's Word to show how Christians can bless society through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity, and passion in the workplace. Do we work to...
Short description: In an increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we can lose sight of God's plan for work. Gifted communicator Timothy Keller draws on the wisdom in God's Word to show how Christians can bless society through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity, and passion in the workplace.
Do we work to live, or live to work?
In today's increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it?
Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here, Timothy Keller argues that God's plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop our faith.
With deep insight, Timothy Keller draws on essential and relevant biblical wisdom to address our questions about work. There is grace available if we have taken the wrong attitude, idolising money and using our careers to glorify ourselves rather than God. This book provides the foundations for a work-life balance where we can thrive both personally and professionally. Keller shows how through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity and passion in the workplace we can impact society for good. Developing a better attitude to work releases us to serve others humbly, to worship God everyday, and leaves us deeply fulfilled.
Biblical insights applied to today's pressing questions
Short description: In an increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we can lose sight of God's plan for work. Gifted communicator Timothy Keller draws on the wisdom in God's Word to show how Christians can bless society through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity, and passion in the workplace. Do we work to...
Short description: In an increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we can lose sight of God's plan for work. Gifted communicator Timothy Keller draws on the wisdom in God's Word to show how Christians can bless society through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity, and passion in the workplace.
Do we work to live, or live to work?
In today's increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it?
Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here, Timothy Keller argues that God's plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop our faith.
With deep insight, Timothy Keller draws on essential and relevant biblical wisdom to address our questions about work. There is grace available if we have taken the wrong attitude, idolising money and using our careers to glorify ourselves rather than God. This book provides the foundations for a work-life balance where we can thrive both personally and professionally. Keller shows how through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity and passion in the workplace we can impact society for good. Developing a better attitude to work releases us to serve others humbly, to worship God everyday, and leaves us deeply fulfilled.
Biblical insights applied to today's pressing questions
Every Good Endeavour: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan For the World$26.99
As we all bring our own personal questions, beliefs, experiences and expectations into the picture, this book brought particularly refreshing insight and biblical precepts on """"work"""" - what the purpose of work is, what the Bible says about work, how we can engage with work. This book is both for those who work in the marketplace, the ministry, the home, or anything in between! What I appreciate about Keller is that his writing is always gospel rich, biblically grounded, compassionate and inspiring. I found my views of work being shaped and refined in what can be a conflicting topic (particularly when it comes to """"spiritual vs secular"""" or whatever that means) but Keller so brilliantly and clearly brings us all to the common ground of the gospel, the ways of God, the experience of humanity and inspires us to see what our """"work"""" could mean and look like! For me, personally, this book has been key in restoring my perspective on work and the value of work in all our lives. A must read, in my opinion!
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Anonymous
I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
3 years ago
every good endeavour
This is a very relevant book with thoughts and observations based on real life experiences in a big church in the US. The writer shows deep insight into what work should really be like from a biblical standpoint. The Christian worker should live out the Gospel in his work environment. Keller quoted Romans 12:1-2 and explained how we can serve the Lord with passion selflessly as Christ did and also rest on the seventh day for various reasons. Above all we should not be tempted to think we alone are holding up the universe when we should rest in the thought that our Creator God is doing it. Today we take' pride in our need for personal significance in our work which leads to competition, disunity and strife so a life of self-glorification makes unity and love between people impossible. We would be better off getting our spiritual value from God, our Creator. Our work in this world will always fall short of God's glory because we know that our work in this life is not the final word. ' \\nI strongly recommend this book to everyone who wants to work as God wants us to do for His honour and glory. \\n
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Anonymous
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
5 years ago
Unsure
This book was a bit of a miss for me. \\nThe basis was the Bible, and there were Bible verses scattered throughout but it just felt full of anecdotes and stories. So for me it was bit too slow-paced and repetitive. \\nMaybe this type of book appeals to the target audience.
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Anonymous
I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
6 years ago
Change my view about work
The book changed my perspective on work. It describes and warns how we should treat our job. So it would not be an idol, pointless and make us selfish. Instead, it teaches us how to be grateful, fruitful, and to treat work as our service to God. Recommend to read it, whatever job you do.
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Anonymous
I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
6 years ago
A Helpful Theology of Work
Tim Keller has written a helpful book for Christians who work in the marketplace. Drawing from Scripture and contemporary philosophical discourses on work, Keller shares insights to help believers understand how they can enjoy their work and honor God through their work. Problems with work are discussed, including frustration, the lack of meaning, etc and Keller rightly attributes these to how the Fall has affected work and human relationships. The reader is constantly reminded to take a Gospel-centered approach to work and to use work as a platform for the spread of the Gospel. This book should be must reading for marketplace Christians. Pastors would do well to read this book too so that they know how to shepherd their flock who spend more time in the marketplace than at home or in church. Highly recommended.
