If you know God loves your work, you can--as Paul put it--"work at it with all your heart." But too often even Christians find it hard to engage fully with what occupies them for hours every day. This book will help you relate your work to God's eternal kingdom purposes. Here you will find not just one or two but several biblical reasons for getting up and going to work.
During your lifetime you will spend, perhaps, 100,000 hours working in paid or unpaid work. Will you see spiritual significance in those hours? In the end, will they really matter? These easy-to-read chapters will help you view your daily work within a new and much larger perspective. For example, what if you were to begin seeing your work as a worship offering that God gladly receives? Or what if you were to discover how he intends to use your work to further your own spiritual growth?
Get set to move from "Thank God, it's Friday!" to "Wonderful, it's Monday again!"
Larry Peabody serves as adjunct theology-of-work professor for the Bakke Graduate University. His first book, Serving Christ in the Workplace, was published in 1974. Job-Shadowing Daniel: Walking the Talk at Work was published in the spring of 2010. Curing Sunday Spectatoritis: From Passivity to Participation in Church was published in 2015. Peabody has served as a state employee, business owner, church planter, and senior pastor.
“Larry Peabody has gathered up his life of learning, teaching, and working in this superb book. It is personal, practical, accessible, enlightening, evocative, comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and above all, scripturally sound, even prophetic. I commend it wholeheartedly. It could change your life for the good!”
—R. Paul Stevens, Regent College, emeritus
“Skillfully weaving the beautiful threads of a robust biblical theology with down-to-earth, practical wisdom, God Loves Your Work persuasively narrows the perilous Sunday-to-Monday discipleship gap so prevalent today. . . . Larry Peabody is a wise and seasoned sage to guide you in your Monday world as a faithful and fruitful apprenticeship with Jesus. I highly recommend it!”
—Tom Nelson, President, Made to Flourish
“Larry goes far beyond a Sunday sermon of being good Christians at work. He helps us reorientate our perspective and relationship with work to be truly impactful for God’s kingdom. Larry’s stories and down-to-earth wisdom make this an easy yet profound read for everyone, especially for us folks in the working trenches of helping civilization survive and thrive. It’s tremendously encouraging to know God truly does love our work. Thanks, Larry!”
—David Hataj, President, Edgerton Gear