Malyon Workplace

Prayer and your workplace – 10 studies from Andrew Laird

Andrew - Profile Picture (ARN)Wondering how you can pray effectively for your workplace??? Andrew Laird from City Bible Forum (Melbourne) has prepared an excellent set of 10 studies that you can download here.

Contents
1. The goal of prayer: Hallowed be your name
2. Prayer: Speaking to our Father
3. Prayer: Enabled by the Son
4. Prayer: Empowered by the Spirit
5. Prayer: Why Bother
6. Prayer: Why pray with others
7. Prayer: For workplace friendships
8. Prayer: For your workplace living witness
9. Prayer: For the salvation of your colleagues
10. Prayer: For the flourishing of your workplace

The big juggle- balancing work and family: Graham Hooper

A good friend of Malyon Workplace, Graham Hooper, recently spoke at a Melbourne City Bible Forum breakfast event.

You can watch the whole presentation here and read Andrew Laird’s summary of what Graham had to say Laird here.? The key questions that Graham addressed were:

  • ?What is my calling? (Hebrews 12:1-2)?
  • ?What do I really value?? (Matthew 6:19-24, Mark 8:34-37).
  • ?What relationships has God entrusted to me?? (Ephesians 5:21-6:4, 1 Timothy 5:3-8).

I liked this concluding comment from Andrew:

One final reflection that Graham made is to encourage us to recognise that workplaces keep functioning long after you’ve left. ?The corporation is designed to survive without you. The machine is designed to drop you off and keep going?. This truth alone goes a long way towards reorienting our perspective on work in relation to our families, and so helps us as we seek to navigate the complex issue of balancing work and family responsibilities.

 

 

 

http://lifeatwork.org.au/content/big-juggle-balancing-work-family

Christians and Work – “The End of Work”

Distinct Disciplesdistinctdisciples??Andrew Laird recently presented an overview of what the Bible teaches about work at Sydney Missionary and Bible College.?SMBC has made the audio of the lecture available here.

The lecture is divided into four parts:

  • Original Ends?(God?s original purposes?for work)
  • Frustrated Ends?(how those purposes have been frustrated by sin)
  • Renewed Ends?(how those purposes have been renewed by Jesus)
  • The End of Work?(how our daily labour can echo into eternity)