Every Good Endeavor

Timothy Keller

Connecting Your Work To God's Work
ISBN 978-0-525-95270-1
253 pages
Dutton 2012

Excerpt from slip cover
In a work world that is increasingly competitive and insecure, people often have nagging questions: Why am I doing this work? Why is it so hard? Is there anything I can do about it?

Keller shows readers tha biblical wisdom is immensely relevant to our questions about our work. In fact, the Christian view of work - that we work to serve others, not ourselves - can provide the foundation of a thriving professional and balanced personal life.

Quotes
A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it and you do it for them rather than for yourself.

Work is the medium in which we offer ourselves to God. Work is the full expression of our faculties.

God milks the cows through the vocation of the mild maids. Martin Luther

If you do your work so well that by God's grace it helps others who can never thank you, you are serving the work, and truly loving your neighbor.

The Christian faith gives us a new and rich conception of work as partnering with GOd in His love and care for the world.