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Interview on The Gospel and Productivity

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Several weeks ago I had the privilege of being a guest on Loren Pinilis’s very helpful podcast on Christian time management.

Loren is a great interviewer and I really enjoyed talking with him. I think we talked for almost three hours! He has broken up our conversation into several episodes in his podcast. Here’s the first episode. In it, we discuss:

  • The roles of discipline and passion
  • How to pursue excellence without being a perfectionist
  • What the difference is between a legalistic productivity approach and a gospel-based productivity approach.
  • How to approach productivity and life when you’re not really enjoying God’s grace and his love.
  • The crucial nature of understanding justification by faith alone and how that affects productivity
  • The roles of discernment and uncertainty in productivity
  • What it was like writing the book
  • What I hope readers take away from the book

 

 

My Interview at The Gospel Coalition on the Doctrine of Vocation and Finding Meaning in Your Work

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Last fall, Collin Hansen of The Gospel Coalition interviewed me on the Christian doctrine of work. It’s now posted at their site. Here’s the video, with Collin’s intro:

What gets you out of bed on Monday morning to go to work? What motivates you to persevere in a job you don’t enjoy, that doesn’t reward you adequately?

I posed these questions to Matt Perman, blogger and author of the forthcoming What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Changes the Way You Get Things Done. We discussed how jobs afford us opportunities to love our neighbors, and how we each multitasked during repetitive work to learn about God and concentrate on his Word.

Especially if you’re struggling at work, you’ll want to hear Perman explain the doctrine of vocation, which invests everything we do with meaning, because we’re living out a God-giving calling. Whether a pastor or plumber, we work in faith as unto God himself (Colossians 3:23-24). Perman explains how even garbage collectors can apply this doctrine to make their work more interesting, challenging, and fulfilling.