God at Work

When God Came to Work

Little did a New York missionary realize that a noontime prayer meeting he was about to start primarily for businessmen would sweep America in revival and eventually have a worldwide influence. Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier, a former businessman, had just started his work in July 1857 as an outreach director with the North Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street in New York City (just a few blocks from the later site of the World Trade Center). Convinced only of the centrality of prayer in ministry outreach, Lanphier set out to organize a prayer gathering with a difference:

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How Honesty Saved My Job

When Life Action's revival team arrived in his Texas church, Rick Lawson had no idea what God had in store for him. “I was an engineering supervisor with one of the largest defense contractors for the U.S. government. In that role, I had top-level security clearance,” Rick explains.   “During revival meetings at my church, God began to convict me about being dishonest years earlier when I had filled out my security clearance forms.” Rick had falsely checked “No” regarding pre-application drug use. “I had used drugs repeatedly while I was in college and on a few isolated occasions ...

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Becoming a Person of Influence

People watch each other, keeping mental notes on those around them. When we need something, we usually think, “Who do I know that I can call on?” When we need a cup of sugar, we think about the next-door neighbor. When we have a question about our dog's health, we think about our friend who is a vet. People are our most accessible, most economical, and most efficient source of information. When a person gets interested in spiritual things, they're likely to look around for people they know and whom they think might have answers to their questions ...

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Introduction - God at Work

It wasn't an X-rated movie . . . it was XXX-rated.

By God's grace I don't remember anything about that movie. But I do remember the shock of realizing how incredibly different this moment was from my upbringing in a conservative Midwest farming community, where some of my most exciting childhood memories were getting ice cream on a Saturday night while the high school band played patriotic music in the town square. I was preparing to graduate from a Christian business school. This was my first job interview, and I was being wooed by a reputable firm in the bustling ...

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