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Reagan’s Roundup: June 19th, 2025

June 19, 2025by Reagan Rose5 min read

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Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.

In Today’s Issue:

Lordship at Work
Hebrews 10 on Complacency
Resuscitate Your Bible Reading Plan
Facing a Midlife Spiritual Plateau
Kuyper on Sovereignty

Dear steward,

“No, what we are talking about is seeking God’s rule in the work itself, by doing it as for Him. For God is interested in who we are and our motivation for it, much more than in what we do. His desire is to mould our character.”

That quote comes from page 52 of John Lennox’s A Good Return: Biblical Principles for Work, Wealth & Wisdom. We’ve been reading that in our Redeeming Productivity Academy book club.

I’ve read a lot of books on the theology of work. But I have really appreciated the depth of this one. And the point Lennox made in the quote above really hit home for me.

God is using your work to shape your character.

As we daily seek His kingdom by bringing an attitude of worship to our tasks, we are training our motivations. The internal battle of choosing between grumbling and complaining or working as unto the Lord is a spiritual one. It’s making us into a certain type of person. Am I becoming a grumbler or a joy-filled steward, laboring for the King of Kings?

We make a huge mistake when we write off work as if it’s just the “other” part of our life, somehow disconnected from the spiritual. Because, just speaking time-wise, the majority of our lives will be spent doing work. It seems so unimportant in the moment. But this is where our character is being shaped, this is where we live out our Christian faith by subsuming even the little stuff to His lordship.

And that’s Lennox’s point: That attitude with which you approach your work is a lordship issue.

The little habits, the little attitude shifts, the little choices to lift our eyes upward to focus on pleasing Christ with our work—that’s living for Christ. That’s shaping who you are. That matters.

Weekly Word

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
– Hebrews 10:24-25

It’s easy to slip into comfort and isolation (especially in today’s digital world), but the Christian life is not meant to be lived alone. We need the fellowship of other believers, and they need us. Let’s press into church life, and commit to helping our fellow believers shake off complacency so we can bear fruit that pleases our Lord.

Worth Your Time

Fallen Behind on Your Bible Reading Plan? (7 mins) Steve Mathewson has some encouragement and practical tips for how to get back into consistent Bible reading in the summer months.
Master Your Moments and Master Your Days (2 mins) Tim Challies writes, “Most of life is lived in the little things and it is possible to focus on the big while ignoring the small. Yet we can’t obey God in dreams or honor him in vision, but only in the nitty-gritty of real life.”
Facing the Midlife Spiritual Plateau (4 mins) I’ll be turning 40 this year, and I’ve had a lot of conversations with my fellow mid-life believers that lead me to believe Jo is onto something here. If this article resonates with you, I’d also recommend picking up a copy of Francis Schaeffer’s True Spirituality.

Words of Wisdom

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’”
– Abraham Kuyper

P.S. For the month of June, we’re running a super-sale on POWER Mornings, my course that helps believers build unbreakable daily habits for spiritual and personal growth.

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