One specific question keeps coming to me from our global online tribe: “Mark, the Bible tells me to endure, but my life is too hard. I am hopeless.” My first reaction to that question is always thinking that it contains two parts of the answer: 1) Hope PRODUCES endurance; and 2) Endurance is the RESULT of hope.    That is the foundation behind our ability to endure in Christ.    But...

Another great question just came in from our global online tribe: “My issue Mr. Affleck is about work. How does God have anything to do with my job?” It starts with our MOTIVATION. Our work is HOLY in God’s eyes because of our faith in him, not the job itself. We are motivated to seek God’s glory in and through our work.    Working for anything else will end in disappointment. Our work will...

There are millions of Christians around the world working in jobs they would never freely choose. Why in the world would they do that? Because “there are bills to pay.” The consequence of that choice leads people to work for man’s approval and reject God’s affirmation.    Some of them mistakenly THINK they are toiling for God’s approval by “doing a good job” and “striving for excellence.”...

I love receiving questions from this ministry’s online tribe of 400,000 followers in nearly 100 countries. Like this one that came in last night–one of the most important questions every Christian must contemplate and be ready to answer–“WHAT IS FAITH?” First, the short answer…    FAITH is trust in Jesus to be who he said he would be and to do what he said he would do.    Now,...

“Time to get up and go to work!” “Another day at the factory.” “I’ve had enough of this place!” Most of us have probably had those thoughts at one time or another. But whether you like your job or love your job or hate your job, WORK is foundational to life on earth.    Work serves many purposes, chief among them: 1) Earn money; 2) Live well; and 3) Serve God.    Our work defines...

Why Trusting God WORKS And Trusting Ourselves Does NOT We are NOT the boss!    As a CEO in the marketplace early in my walk with Christ, I allowed career uncertainties to spill into my personal life. I allowed inexorable stress to surge through my soul. I allowed a ticking time bomb to pervade my world. And it produced horrific consequences.    Playing the role of boss forces us...

Another great question from our global online tribe dropped into my email last night. A young woman asked me this: “Mark, how can I PRAY IN FAITH when I am unsure if my request in is God’s will?    My first point was that “faith in prayer” has nothing to do with OUR feelings over whether the request is or is not in God’s will. Our “faith in prayer” is having faith in GOD.    If...

Questions from the ministry’s online tribe continue to pour in from around the world. A powerful theme has emerged recently around PRAYER in the form of this question: “How Do I Pray?” Please don’t dismiss this as a “simple question.” The concept may be easily understood, but DOING IT is far from simple, even for spiritually-mature Christians.    Let’s start with the myriad reasons why God...

Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to be spiritually consistent? If you have, in one sense, that’s a good thing because it demonstrates that you are in touch with God’s call for us to seek him every day and grow spiritually.    That growth is important to God because spiritual maturity is BEING LIKE CHRIST!    Ok…fair enough. That is easy to understand...

The questions from Love God Fear Nothing’s global online family keep pouring in. This one arrived early this morning: “Hey, Mark…do I have to read the Bible to be a Christian?” It took about six seconds for my mind to race toward the much broader subject of Bible illiteracy which is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. and around the world.    We have become Biblically illiterate Christians...