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3 Tips to Love Your Neighbors in a Secular Workplace
Guest Post by Becca Manning I have two types of neighborhoods: the literal neighborhood where I live and the neighborhood of people I work with. I hold two jobs in the service industry. One is a fast-paced, 30 second interaction as a barista. The other is a slower paced, hours long service as a Licensed Massage Therapist. Both of these jobs have guidelines that restrict me from discussing religion. So how does a Christian love their neighbor, their co-worker or their customer without...
Creating Space to Connect Work Guide
Hey How to Love Your Neighbor community! If you follow me around the interwebs, you know I’m a goal-setting fanatic. What can I say: without a goal, I’d just lay around all day eating popcorn. One of my 2017 goals was to create resources for women to help strengthen their relationship with God and their community. And that's what I am sharing about today. “Creating Space to Connect” is my first FREE work guide, just for you and your community-driven spirit. Let’s be honest—creating...
Books that Build Relationships: the year of small things
Warning: by living a “radical faith” you may start a mini-revolution in your neighborhood. As I read the charges from Christ in Matthew 25 to feed the hungry, to welcome the stranger, to clothe the poor, and visit those in prison, I begin to feel a sense of guilt. I am living in white middle-class America, removed from the tangible neighborhood of “the least of these.” But it wasn’t always that way. When I started my young adult career, I was passionate about working with the urban poor. I was...
Books that Build Relationships: Building Your House
Chaos. Pure chaos. You know what I'm talking about: papers all over the kitchen counter, donation bags still by the back door, and shoes missing their pair. Shannon Upton believes faithful moms don’t have to live in a chaotic state. The author of Building Your House, Shannon writes a step-by-step guide to organizing your home and family. The result? Pure peace that comes from organizing your home with spiritual and practical methods. The book helps you organize your physical home, your heart,...
Focus on the Family Broadcast
I grew up listening to Focus on the Family, filing my commute with their broadcasts and gleaning parenting advice while I made dinner. To sit in the studio where countless hours of wisdom have been recorded was surreal. It took me a few minutes to believe that the familiar voices of Jim Daly and John Fuller were coming from real people sitting right in front of me, not my stereo speakers! Tune in to the Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast on Monday, February 13, 2017 to learn practical...
