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    How Can I Serve God at Work?
    How Can I Serve God at Work?
    How Can I Serve God at Work?
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    How Can I Serve God at Work?

    By Ray Pennings

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    Inundated as we are with secular distortions regarding how to think about our work lives, we need to remind ourselves of basic scriptural truths in order to think clearly about the subject. In How Can I Serve God at Work? , Ray Pennings unpacks ten biblical principles that will help believers cultivate everyday godliness in a twenty-first-century North American context. Pennings also discusses how a biblical view of vocation contrasts with a secular one and how this might make a difference as we head to work in the morning. Armed with a proper theology of work, readers will be better equipped to serve and glorify God in things that are sometimes considered less spiritual.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReformation Heritage Books
    Release dateJun 23, 2017
    ISBN9781601785503
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      How Can I Serve God at Work? - Ray Pennings

      HOW CAN I

      SERVE GOD AT WORK?

      RAY PENNINGS

      REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS

      GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

      How Can I Serve God at Work?

      © 2017 by Ray Pennings

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      CULTIVATING BIBLICAL GODLINESS

      Series Editors

      Joel R. Beeke and Ryan M. McGraw

      Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most of all is to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’ As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

      HOW CAN I

      SERVE GOD AT WORK?

      In his famous Treatise of the Vocations, the Puritan William Perkins defined vocation as a certain kind of life, ordained or imposed on man by God, for the common good.1 Perkins described this idea as countercultural in his sixteenth-century context, when a "common saying [was] Every man for himself and God for us all. This thinking, Perkins said, was wicked and directly against the end of every calling or honest kind of life."2 Now, four and a half centuries later, his words are as relevant as they were then.

      We naturally think that our work is about us. To use our individual gifts, we need to take inventory of them. Few of us manage to do so without succumbing either to pride or to covetousness and, in many cases, both. We celebrate what we are able to do well, and from our earliest age we compare ourselves to those around us. Already on the playground, someone is smarter, faster, or quicker. Others are less so. When we enter the

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