Joanna Meyer
Called Together: A Biblical Perspective on Gender Roles in the Workplace (Part 1)

One of the highlights of Denver Institute’s event calendar is our annual business leaders’ event “Business for the Common Good.” This year’s (2018) gathering was no exception as entrepreneurs and executives from across the country joined us to consider how God could work through the gifts and influence of His people.Guests packed the Studio Loft […]

Jessica Schroeder
Does Worship Matter for Our Work?

 At Denver Institute’s 2018 Annual Celebration, we welcomed singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken, who will perform several songs from a recent album that is the first of its kind.Work Songs, produced by the Porter’s Gate Worship Project, offers to the Church thirteen songs aimed at preparing us for and accompanying us through our daily work.But does this […]

Laura Bernero
Pursuing Your Dream in the Face of Adversity

Blythe Scott, a 5280 Fellow in the 2016-2017 session, has a passion to advocate for the most vulnerable in society through politics, policy and the church, believing in the power of God’s people to join him in the “renewal of all things.”Her passions for faith and politics became more and more integrated during the Fellowship, […]

7 Ways to Pastor Professionals

Living out our faith at work looks different for doctors, lawyers, accountants, and professionals in various industries, and ministry leaders often struggle to fully understand the challenges their members face in the workplace. At a recent event for our Church Partnership Network, Jeff Haanen shared seven practical ways to disciple the professionals in our pews. […]

The Way We Categorize People

Many business owners wonder about how to broach the topic of religion in their companies, which have people of many faiths. In this guest post from our friends at Agile Partnering, here is one company’s approach. Co-founding my first company last year was the fulfillment of a dream 13 years in the making.When my obsession to […]

Jeff Haanen
Doctrine: Perseverance

In the final post of the series Heart, Work & World? Telling First-Hand Accounts of the Gospel in our Work, we hear from a facilities manager who works at a local church. My favorite part about this story is the quote in the fourth paragraph. Quite stunning that through picking up trash he can see atonement […]

Laura Bernero
The Five C’s of Empowering Millennial Employees

I stepped into the bright, airy office, thoughtfully decorated with modern furniture and colorful artwork, and I thought, “this is a space I want to work in.”The color of the office communicated values of culture and creativity. The open space implied collaboration. These visual cues felt purposeful during my first interview at my current employer.My […]

Jeff Haanen
Doctrine: Redemption

In the fourth of five posts in our series Heart, Work & World? Telling First-Hand Accounts of the Gospel in our Work, we visit a construction site in Denver. Paraphrasing C.S. Lewis, God is not just making nice people, but new men. And that’s what the doctrine of regeneration is about: through the Holy Spirit we go […]

Jeff Haanen
Doctrine: Sovereignty

In the third of three posts in our series Heart, Work & World? Telling First-Hand Accounts of the Gospel in our Work. Find other posts here on how our humanity and God’s adoption play out in stories of work today.  In this story, a small business entrepreneur takes the leap from being a shop class teacher to […]

Jeff Haanen
Doctrine: Adoption

This is the second story (of five) about men and women in Denver who’ve experienced the living God in their work. As I mentioned in the first post, a version of these stories were included as illustrations of various doctrines in The NIV Faith and Work Study Bible (Zondervan). The next story focuses on the […]

Free Download: 6 Ways to Love Your Neighbor Through Business

“Who is my neighbor?”This question has stumped believers since the legal expert asked Jesus about it more than 2000 years ago. In hopes of justifying himself, the lawyer sought unambiguous instructions for inheriting eternal life. Jesus responded with the story of the Good Samaritan, demonstrating that loving our neighbors is defined more by our mercy […]

Jeff Haanen
Doctrine: Humanity

What does faith look liked played out in day-to-day realities of work in a broken world? A while back, I wrote a series of short stories based on interviews with people in Denver. These stories were used for the NIV Faith and Work Study Bible. Each story was meant to highlight one doctrine, and how an […]