How to connect our work to a higher purpose

1: In the first chapter of the Bible, God tells us: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.  Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground” (Genesis 1:28).

This command is often called the “cultural mandate,” writes Timothy Keller asks in E… continue reading

1: The short answer? Yes.

“The book of Genesis leaves us with a striking truth—work was part of paradise,” Timothy Keller writes in Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.

Yesterday, we looked at how the Bible begins talking about work in the first chapter of Genesis: “And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh … continue reading