Life@Work: Marketplace Success for People of Faith

This book arrived in yesterday's mail. I highly recommend the seller for the excellent packaging, expedient shipping, and overall care in getting this book to me. Have skimmed this book and rate it highly because it is well deserved. Offers valuable insight for leaders of all stages and has great input from all authors and their respective backgrounds in leadership. This is a must for serious leaders.

I have enjoyed this book as a bible study with three other guys. The book has some great examples but sometimes Maxwell repeats himself throughout the book. As a bible study this lesson can get long!

Good Read and questioning. Take time to examine yourself, especially in your thought life with this book. John C. Maxwell is a refreshing gift to the body of Christ!

I've read 15+ of his books. they all have the same content, same examples. i just got bored.

Thank God I did not focus on the review from Publishers Weekly, otherwise I would have missed a great book. This book is about work and not about the sayings of Jesus. The book takes you back to the stories from the Old Testament showing how work life should and should not be. Maxwell often does not give the entire story, but just enough about the biblical situation to apply it to your work life. He explains how your God-given "skill" can be enhanced by God, to have more than a career (rat race). He shows that even your work life can be pleasing to God. Maxwell explains "As Christians, we know our work has purpose because we are serving a God whose purpose is bigger than us...Our work and life are part of His bigger plan (which) supplies an inner joy and satisfaction that can come from nothing else."Maxwell explains why we work and to listen to God about your profession. Listening to God has to be experienced and is not something that can be described practically as Publisher's Weekly wants.This should be required reading for any Christian seeking a job or dissatisfied with their job and any Christian in college. This book should be called the Purpose Driven Working Life.

This book teaches whatever your career may be, you are to give your best. I like the phrase, "Being all of who I am and the best of who I can be at church, home, and work."We are to give our best, after all, our identity comes from Christ. Continually work with positive attitudes, show kindness in our actions, language etc. Take pride in the work you are assigned. Thank God for the job.We are blessed to have a job. We should strive daily to show love everywhere we go, in everything we do, and everything we say.When we have a personal relationship with God our career & ministry have meaning!

This book, along with Doug Sherman's book, "Your Work Matters to God," are the two essential books for any Christian wanting to get a right understanding of the theology of work. They are superbly written with a lot of examples and questions to ponder, and I can't recommend both books enough!