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Looking for daily spiritual growth? Try out "The Chambers Project", our daily blog. The post makes use of Oswald Chambers' classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest, translating it for busy workers, with comments from Senior Writer Randy Kilgore.

Looking for inspiration? If you're interested in devotional essays, we've got hundreds of them available online. You can choose to click the "devotional" link along the left sidebar to read this week's devotional written by Randy Kilgore (or click here), or click on one of the photo-menu links along the right sidebar to experience guest devotionals by three regular contributors. We also make available dozens of the most recent devotionals written by MTM staffers, and you can find those by scrolling to the bottom of the Madetomatter devotional page. If you'd prefer to receive the weekly devotional by email, just send an email telling us that to info@madetomatter.org.

Looking for Bible studies on a specific topic? We have two kinds of Bible studies available on our website, the single-issue studies that can stand alone as teaching tools, and the lifestyle-changing progressive series of studies that teach you how to move from point A to point B in your work/faith journey.

The single issue studies can be found beginning here. These include the following topics:

Success Ethics

Balance Workplace Evangelism

Compensation Evangelistic Language

Leadership Ministry to Coworkers

Workplace Stress Answering Skeptics

Difficult Coworkers Career Decisions

Compromise Setting Boundaries

Honesty Time Management

Workplace Sensuality Stewardship

Cutthroat Business Practices Spiritual Disciplines

Coming soon! Bible studies on Competing Effectively, Adding Value, Biblical Policies & Procedures, Designing Organizations, Balancing Competing Interests, Cultivating Skills & Talents, Career Crashes, Charting Career Paths, Making Choices, Servanthood.

Looking for contentment? One of the sad ironies of the Christian faith is that Christians are often more miserable than their coworkers. Why? Because they're trying to do what Jesus said was impossible: Live with their feet planted in the world and in Christ. To be free of this misery, workers must surrender to the concept of Jesus as Lord of the Marketplace, indeed Lord of their entire existence. But how? We think we've built a road map that fits where you are in your spiritual journey, and we'd like to help you find your "YOU ARE HERE", so you can pick up from there and move to the complete surrender Jesus meant when He said "Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest." Write info@madetomatter.orgtoday for our questionnaire that will help you identify where on the thirty-study road map you should start.

Looking to make substantive specific changes to how you live your life? Some people want more than just help with a single issue. The Bible isn't just an encyclopedia of principles of faith, it's also a guide to life-altering changes. We've selected six areas to demonstrate how the Bible can teach you to change; and govern that change after it's happened.

These five-study arcs take you from Point A in your journey to Point B. And as a bonus, you're also getting many of the fundamental truths of systematic theology, but expressed in the language of the workplace.

I. Shifting from driven ambition (a focus on self) to a healthy work ethic (the ability to focus on something bigger than ourselves).

II. Shifting from moral relativity (everything's okay and truth is relative) to steadfast character (truth matters and absolute truth exists).

III. Shifting from secular pluralism (all roads lead to heaven) to principled persuasion (declaring the Good News of Jesus Christ) in ways that are appropriate, professional and sensitive.

IV. Shifting from indulgent lifestyles (living selfishly) to purposeful living (making a difference while making a living).

V. Shifting from movers and shakers (the desire to serve self & to be important) to culture shapers (the desire to serve others).