This Christmas, let’s fully receive the greatest gift the world has ever been given — and put an end to santa claus-based theology forever. The aim of this article is to help reform the way most of us have grown up, with a performance-based mindset for the way we view God and the way we approach our life and work.

“The spiritual challenge of studying the incarnation is to hear the life-shattering, life-changing, enormous truths through the familiar texts and phrases read at Christmastime. But I would propose to you that you can still hear it. God became human. The claim of that first gets in your face intellectually, then it gets in your heart transformationally.”

We want everyone to have the opportunity to join us in the practice of getting to know Jesus a bit better each day with your family and co-workers. Therefore, we are excited to share this beautiful and practical advent resource from Paul David Tripp.“The Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional is a twenty-five-day Bible reading plan with my commentary that will take you from December 1 through Christmas morning. My prayer is that the glory of the incarnation of the Creator would become far more attractive than the manufactured delights of Christmas so that we truly come and adore Christ the Lord, as the classic hymn we sing declares.” - Paul David Tripp

The feeling of gratitude is a humble feeling, not a proud one. It is other-exalting, not self-exalting. And it is glad-hearted, not angry or bitter. Bitter thankfulness is a contradiction in terms.

Our workplaces can be full of anxiety, anger, and fear. The solution is gratitude. Psychologists, doctors, and God’s word agree — you can’t be grateful and anxious at the same time. Watch as Howard explains in practical ways how the practice of gratitude works to eliminate the anxiety, anger, and fear that hold us back.

“I see plenty of people taking jobs that really don’t fit. They don’t fit their talents very well, and very often the jobs don’t necessarily fulfill them because the jobs aren’t really helping people very much.” - Tim Keller

Listen as Bill Courtney interviews Todd Komarnicki, the producer of Elf, the writer of Sully, and the producer, writer, and director of the upcoming film Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

In this working session, Howard outlines how to be strategic — to create clever, clever plans to accomplish your highest priorities. Learn how the best strategies put everything toward one thing for truly lasting impact and reward.

"Unadulterated" means not mixed with any extraneous elements. To stay on mission requires focus. Pure strategy puts everything toward one thing. A highly competent strategic leader is able to cleverly design plans — aligning everything in all types of situations — without distraction — to accomplish the organization’s chief objective.