The Work as Worship Event coming to Your Church

RightNow Media @ Work presents the Work as Worship Retreat: Rather than taking your people somewhere else to experience the event, they've made it easy to bring the event to your Church! This year's lineup include Pastor and Best-selling Author Francis Chan, New York Times Best-selling Author Jon Acuff, Steve Green the President of Hobby Lobby and many others, including the debut of some exclusive RightNow Media Original Video Stories. Be sure to check it out at www.workasworshipretreat.org

Does My Career Matter to God?

In the video today, Andy Crouch, Executive Editor of Christianity Today, sums up a lot of what we're about as believers when he says, "For Christians, everything matters." Four words that can, and should, change everything about the way we live our lives.

Church and Theology of Work, DiscernGuest UserFebruary 11, 2019theology of work, career, vocation, ask God, Andy CrouchComment

What Does it Mean to Integrate Our Faith and Work?

“Amy Sherman keenly casts a vision for vocational stewardship that grows God’s Kingdom and shapes the world, exploring what we do as well as how we do it. She concludes by suggesting what it might look like practically-speaking to deploy our vocational power as Christians in various sectors.”

How Christians Can Experience Deeper Rest

Please enjoy some of the great content from our friends at Theology of Work, originally published on their website. TOW Project resources are meant to be both theologically rigorous and genuinely practical. In this article, they discuss both Biblical examples and practical ways for believers to experience deeper rest.

Worry and Anxiety, Sabbath, Church and Theology of Work, Time ManagementGuest UserJanuary 11, 2019theology of work, rest, restoration, sabbathComment

Generosity Path's Entrepreneur Profile: The Opprecht Family

We are excited to share with you some of the great Entrepreneur Profiles from around the world compiled by our friends at Generosity Path. Below, we meet a Christian family who is on the generosity path and ask them what God has taught them about giving.

This week, meet Juerg and Benzli Opprecht from Switzerland!

All Time Classic Sermon, "The Beast, the Book, the Beauty and the Lamb" by John Piper

These are all time classic sermons that have nothing, at face value, to do with entrepreneurship, and then upon reflection… everything to do with the life of a Christ following entrepreneur. John Piper wants more than any others I know, to make sure that we don’t miss the centrality of the Good News. Try to stick around for the whole thing. The last 15 minutes are, I think, a thing of beauty.

Scripture, Church and Theology of WorkHenry KaestnerJanuary 3, 2019Good News, Passion Conference, vocation, ultimate treasureComment

What does the Bible say about Calling and Vocation?

Please enjoy some of the great content from our friends at Theology of Work, originally published on their website. TOW Project resources are meant to be both theologically rigorous and genuinely practical. In this article, they dig deep into “What does the Bible say about Calling and Vocation?”

Scripture, Church and Theology of Work, DiscernGuest UserDecember 14, 2018theology of work, calling, vocationComment

Podcast Episode 33 - Keeping the Church Relevant to the Entrepreneur's Life: Part 2 with Chip Ingram (CEO of Living on the Edge)

In Part Two with Chip Ingram, CEO of Living on the Edge, we continue the discussion on faith and entrepreneurship from this Pastor to Entrepreneurs. Topics include ways on keeping church relevant to the entrepreneur's life, to how to handle failures and ways to handle power and influence righteously.

Risk & Failure, Church and Theology of WorkGuest UserNovember 20, 2018handling failure, power and influenceComment

Podcast Episode 32 - Pastoring in Silicon Valley: Interview with Chip Ingram (Senior Pastor of Venture Christian Church)

In Part One with Chip Ingram, Senior Pastor of Venture Christian Church in Los Gatos, CA, Henry has Chip walk through his experience pastoring many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Mentoring, Church and Theology of Work, Excellence in Our WorkGuest UserNovember 13, 2018purpose, valuesComment

Andy Stanley's podcast with Dave Katz

This interview with Andy Stanley, founding pastor of North Point Community Church, and Coke Consolidated’s CFO, Dave Katz is one you definitely don’t want to miss! Take a listen and discover great tips from Dean on “accelerating culture” in your business.

Church and Theology of WorkHenry KaestnerNovember 8, 2018interview, leading, entrepreneurial growthComment

Do You Know What is Shaping Your Desires?

Take a listen to this sermon by Toby Kurth at Christ Church San Francisco for a check on your motivations. This message isn’t necessarily about being an entrepreneur, but is very much about being a follower of Christ, and so it has everything to do with being a FAITH DRIVEN entrepreneur.

Identity, Church and Theology of Work, Time ManagementHenry KaestnerNovember 7, 2018desires, influences, mimetics, Rene Girard, Rodney StarkComment

Ecclesiopreneurship

We need a new kind of job profile for anyone venturing out to start, build, and grow a great company: ecclesiopreneurship.

Ecclesiopreneurship is a created word—a combination of ekklesia (the Greek word commonly translated as “church”) and entrepreneurship (a technical term to describe the designing, launching, and running of a new business). Ecclesiopreneurship combines the theological role of the church with the drive and passion of entrepreneurs who create new businesses.

A Grander Vision - Betenbough Homes

Even after experiencing West Texas-like storms of life, Ron Betenbough of Betenbough Homes, was able to rebuild his life thanks to God’s provision in his business. After committing the business to God, Ron and his son Rick Betenbough, experienced God’s blessings in business and in the lives of their employees. Take a listen to this inspiring Monday video.

Ministry in Deed, Ministry in Word, Church and Theology of WorkHenry KaestnerOctober 15, 2018Comment

The Power of Questions

Brandon Napoli explores the value of questions in our life. He dives deep into how they influence the choices we make and help others to make. Finally he reminds us that God is okay with us asking questions, in fact He wants us to. Maybe one of the 22 suggested daily questions will also help you to grow in your faith or calling…

Podcast Episode 26 - Why the Institutional Church is a Necessary Part of Community

In part two from the Alpine Inn, Henry, Rusty, and William field more questions from our guests but first gave some background on Inklings, the gathering of faith driven entrepreneurs in the Bay Area who meet regularly in the same vain of the original Inklings gathering of faith driven thinkers C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Dorothy Sayer and others.

Identity, Church and Theology of Work, DiscernGuest UserOctober 2, 2018Comment

Chaplains – The ROI of Good Business-Ministry

I have an allergic reaction to the common dilemma of the “success to significance” paradigm, as if a follower of Jesus could be “successful” for 20 years and then “make up lost time” being “significant” for a latter period. Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase of Jesus in Mark 8:37 says “What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?”

Beyond our careers, in the businesses we lead, the same tension must be worked out as well. Is it a business that funds ministry? Is it a ministry that does some business to pay the bills? Is that perhaps a false dichotomy? Is there a “tertium quid” resolution of tension in doing business AS ministry for the entrepreneur who is primarily a citizen of the Kingdom of God? I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t call any part-time disciples and the Great Commission seemed to have an “all y’all, right now” implication for every one of us.

Chaplaincy, Church and Theology of WorkHenry KaestnerSeptember 27, 2018Mike Sharrow Comment

Gospel Driven Ambition

As Christians, is it possible to be ambitious in our work and still have our self-worth and identity firmly rooted in Jesus Christ?

The world tells us that ambition is essential to accumulating wealth, fame, and glory for ourselves. The meta-narrative of work today is that it is the primary means by which we make a name for ourselves in this life and prove to the world that we are important, valuable, and worthy.

Of course, this is nothing new. Since the Fall, human beings have been using work to make a name for themselves, rather than to glorify God and serve others.

While Scripture makes clear that creating to make a name for ourselves constitutes improper ambition, the Bible makes equally clear that ambition can indeed be God-honoring, so long as it flows out of a response to the work Christ did on our behalf on the cross. That is the subject we will turn to in tomorrow’s devotional.

Scripture, Church and Theology of Work, Excellence in Our WorkHenry KaestnerSeptember 19, 2018ambition, Jordan RaynorComment

Every Christian is a Full-Time Missionary

Jordan Raynor explains why calling a Christian a full-time missionary is redundant.

Podcast Episode 17 - Grappling with the Ups and Downs of Entrepreneurship: Nashville Institute of Faith and Work Interview (Missy Wallace)

We have a SPECIAL GUEST! Missy Wallace, Executive Director at the Nashville Institute for Faith & Work (NIFW) joins us and gives us her insights into the convergence of faith and work. She tells us a bit about her own journey, how she developed her theology of faith and work, the founding of NIFW and how she is equipping entrepreneurs today.

Does your Company Have its Own Prayer?

I went to an all boys Jesuit prep school in Baltimore and have said a fair amount of "Our Fathers" and "Hail Marys" in both English and Latin to be suspect of scripted prayers. But when William came to the team and suggested that we have a "Sovereign's Capital Prayer," I was open to it, and then when I read and prayed it, I was hooked.

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