12: When Work Feels Empty

25/09/2025 19 min Temporada 6 Episodio 12
12: When Work Feels Empty

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Sometimes work feels pointless. We get stuck in the comparison/competition trap, never achieving enough to be content. We get enslaved to our work, sacrificing everything else that matters. We end up in jobs that are dehumanizing, treating us more like machines than human beings. It's all so empty. What does Jesus invite us into when work is like that? Take the course at FindingGodAtWork.org. Sources: Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 (NIV) Matthew 5:43-48 (NIV) Exodus 20:8-11 (NIV) Colossians 3:23-25 (NIV) Lee Hardy, The Fabric of This World Inquiries Into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990). Dallas Willard, "Fulfilling the Promise of the New Life," Dallas Willard Ministries, 1991. #FindingGodAtWork #FaithAndWork #Vocation #Disappointment #Disillusionment #Expectations #Empty #Emptiness #Pointless #Competitors #Opponents #LoveYourEnemy #Sabbath #LeeHardy #PeterDrucker #WorkDesign #Machines #DallasWillard #Resentment #Love #Burnout #Disillusionment #Layoffs #LaidOff #GettingFired #Quitting #MoralInjury #Failure #DreamJob #ToxicWorkplace #ToxicBoss #WorkplaceDiscrimination #Pain #Suffering #Sorrow #FeelingEmpty #Lament #SufferingWithChrist #Perseverance #Purpose #Redemption #Restoration #DivineAppointments #MissionCentral