Tag: Cultural Mandate

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15). In October of this...

Can believers work with non-believers? For most of us, our jobs and everyday activities bring us in contact with non-believers. We work alongside them day after day. How...

Far too often Christians think, as Dr. Richard Pratt writes in Designed for Dignity, Jesus came to forgive our sin, make our souls sparkle, to sprinkle us with...

The dominion we are given by God is powerful. We exercise this dominion through our work (Gen. 2:15). To do our work to the utmost glory of God,...

Francis Schaeffer’s prophetic work A Christian Manifesto features a great quote about the lost biblical doctrine of work and how Christians can revive it in America. In the...

If you are a regular IFWE blog reader, you know we hope to educate and inspire Christians to live out a biblical theology that integrates faith, work, and...

A significant part of the calling of God’s people is to reweave shalom. What does that look like in the world today? The cultural mandate calls Christians to...

The sacred-secular divide has deep historical roots. The early church held a sound biblical view of work, but lost it during the Middle Ages. The Reformation helped rectify...

As a Christian economist, I’m often asked to comment on the incredible pace of change regarding technology, innovation, and its impact on the economy – and how Christians...

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