Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

by Timothy J. Keller

the gospel replaces the story that animates our work, it alters our conception of what work is, and it reorients the ethical compass we use for work.

the gospel also gives us new power for work by supplying us with a new passion and a deeper kind of rest.

When the extent and depth of Jesus’s passion for you fully dawns on your heart, it will generate passion for the work he has called you uniquely to do in the world.

To violate the rhythm of work and rest (in either direction) leads to chaos in our life and in the world around us. Sabbath is therefore a celebration of our design.

the very definition of a Christian is someone who not only admires Jesus, emulates Jesus, and obeys Jesus, but who “rests in the finished work of Christ” instead of his or her own.

In the Christian view, the way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident, but because the Creator gave them to you.