Podcast Episodes

Courage to Serve

Season 7 Episode 27

The discipline of service helps us grow in humility, and humility makes us ready to serve. It's a reciprocal relationship.

The same is true for s…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Work as the Stuff of Salvation

Season 7 Episode 26

Doing our work out of the motivation of service makes it meaningful in three different ways:

Our work contributes to the common good.

Our wo…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Progressively Humble Service

Season 7 Episode 25

Sometimes job postings list "progressively responsible work experience" among the prerequisites for a position. It means they're looking for someon…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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How to Stop Being Snooty

Season 7 Episode 24

It feels awful when someone looks down on us. When they treat us as "less than." When they're snooty toward us.

But we can be snooty ourselves. H…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Giving the Gift of the True Self

Season 7 Episode 23

What can nursing mothers teach us about life with God in the workplace?

In our work relationships, we have the opportunity to give the gift of ou…

7 months ago

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Facing the False Self

Season 7 Episode 22

It's difficult to be honest about our weaknesses. When we don't have the courage to humbly admit how we come up short, we instead project an image …

7 months ago

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Humility About Our Weaknesses

Season 7 Episode 21

Sometimes we're ashamed about our weaknesses.

Sometimes we're ashamed about our sin.

When we come clean about our sin, we're owning something w…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Eating Humble Pie

Season 7 Episode 20

Humble pie does not taste great.

It's hard to eat it, to get it down. It's hard to admit that we're wrong.

It's hard to revise our estimate of …

7 months, 1 week ago

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When You Can't Hack It

Season 7 Episode 19

What can you do when you can't hack it at work?

When you just can't get it done?

When you hit the wall?

Sometimes our limitations surprise us…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Working When the World Is On Fire

Season 7 Episode 18

How do we make sense of "normal life" when it feels like the world is on fire?

In the midst of global and national crisis, thoughts like these go…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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