(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 1/31  (January 31, 2009)
  Creating a Memory How can you create a memory for someone in your workplace today? Jesus was all about creating memories.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/30  (January 30, 2009)
  Jesus did all of His miracles as a man, not as God. Let that sink in.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/29  (January 29, 2009)
  Why Work? Jesus may have continued His occupation even after He began to teach and travel.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/28  (January 28, 2009)
  Forgiving Ourselves The murderer was condemned to life in prison. Then one day something amazing happened...
• Marketplace Meditations 1/27  (January 27, 2009)
  Father, Son and Holy Scriptures? There's never been a better description of the Church today.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/26  (January 26, 2009)
  Out of Your Comfort Zone Have you ever been given an assignment at work that was beyond your perceived ability?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/25  (January 25, 2009)
  Greek versus Hebraic Is your focus on gaining more knowledge or growing in intimacy and power with Jesus?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/24  (January 24, 2009)
  From the Desert to the Promised Land God calls you to eat from the fruit of your own work.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/23  (January 23, 2009)
  Called to Someone versus Something Sometimes we can place the idea of calling too much on the thing we do versus the One we are called to serve.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/22  (January 22, 2009)
  Masquerading as a Dentist If Christ is Lord over all of life, then He must be Lord over work, too.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/21  (January 21, 2009)
  Market Resistance Has God made you an inventor? Ask him to help you bring your product to market.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/20  (January 20, 2009)
  His Work, His Way When you and I live in this world without Christ we live a life just as Esau lived his life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/19  (January 19, 2009)
  Lost Donkeys In Bible times, donkeys represented trade and commerce, for they were the primary means of transporting goods.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/18  (January 18, 2009)
  Competition in the Kingdom There is absolutely no place for competitiveness in ministry or marketplace activity if you understand God's view of receiving.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/17  (January 17, 2009)
  The Marketplace Minister and the Pulpit Minister Partnership We are a team that needs one another to accomplish the task of bringing God's presence into the city.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/16  (January 16, 2009)
  It's Time for a Funeral Many of the daily problems in life can be solved by coming to an end of ourselves so Jesus can take over.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/15  (January 15, 2009)
  The New Employee What would happen if Jesus took your place for a year in your workplace?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/14  (January 14, 2009)
  Big Assignments How does God prepare someone for big assignments?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/13  (January 13, 2009)
  Living for a cause Greater than Yourself Has God allowed a crisis in your life?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/12  (January 12, 2009)
  Secret Places During deep soul experiences God often leads us to amazing new discoveries.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/11  (January 11, 2009)
  Knowing and Doing God's Will Consider these five steps when discerning God's voice in your life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/10  (January 10, 2009)
  Your Secular Work Is Ministry Do you know someone who needs tough love in his or her life right now?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/9  (January 9, 2009)
  When Your Sails No Longer Have Wind He stilled the storm to a whisper (Ps. 107:29). Does it feel like God has propelled you into the open sea only to stop midway with no options?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/8  (January 8, 2009)
  Jesus Was A Workplace Minister Consider that in the New Testament of Jesus' 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/7  (January 7, 2009)
  The Question of Calling There is a distinction between a later, special calling and our original, ordinary calling.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/6  (January 6, 2009)
  Sacred Versus Secular Jesus called all his disciples from the marketplace of life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/5  (January 5, 2009)
  Discovering Your Purpose If you are going to discover how God wants to use your life and work, you must know why you were created.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/4  (January 4, 2009)
  A New Creation If you've never had a mulligan in life, now is the time to let Jesus give you a brand new start.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/3  (January 3, 2009)
  The 9-5 Window The "Church" is a Church when two believers come together in the name of Jesus. It is not a building. It is a people.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/2  (January 2, 2009)
  Moses' Staff God will often "break" our staff, or our vocation, in order to reshape and re-commission us.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/1  (January 1, 2009)
  The Work of God Today, God is establishing mini-franchises in the form of prayer groups and Bible studies in the workplace.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/7  (November 7, 2008)
  Simply Obey Samuel the prophet told King Saul that obedience is better than sacrifice.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/6  (November 6, 2008)
  Do You Need a Breakthrough? It is clear the angel came to Daniel because of his fasting and prayer and his seeking God for answers.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/5  (November 5, 2008)
  Martha's Bad Rap We must always have an outlet of expressing the love of God through practical deeds.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/4  (November 4, 2008)
  Transforming Your Workplace Is it possible to transform your workplace into something Christ-like?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/3  (November 3, 2008)
  I can't believe you think that! Humbling ourselves is the only way to resolve a relational breach.
• "God Is Not About YOUR Success" - Marketplace Meditations 11/2  (November 2, 2008)
  The man who loves his life will lose it (John 12:25). God is all about your death so that HIS success can be realized.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/1  (November 1, 2008)
  The Queen of Heaven The temple of Artemis in Ephesus was listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Marketplace Meditations 10/31  (October 31, 2008)
  Relating to those Different from Us Do you shy away from interacting with those who may have a different belief?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/30  (October 30, 2008)
  Worship and Work Work, if done with integrity and unto God, is a form of worship in the biblical Hebrew context.