Chris Easley

When you receive a birthday or anniversary card, you often see two sets of writing: the elegantly worded section from the author at the card company, and a personal, handwritten note from the person giving you the card. Which part of the card carries more meaning for you? The handwritten note! While it may not […]

What do you think you’ll do on a normal workday 10,000 years from now? In the new heavens and the new earth, we’ll be working. We often think of the new heavens and the new earth as a setting of rest and celebration, but the truth is that work—good work!—will also be part of our

Have you ever had to slow down to keep pace with someone else? In this episode of Finding God at Work, Chris considers when love requires us to put on the brakes. Drawing on Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (“the grandeur of humanity”), Chris celebrates the pope’s prophetic clarity for our fast-paced marketplace,

When we evaluate the vitality of a local church, we typically count heads in pews, measure annual giving, or analyze Sunday volunteer teams. But what happens when a pastor steps back and realizes that his congregation spends forty, fifty, or sixty hours a week in an entirely different domain? For Tom Nelson, former lead pastor

When preparing to lay the brick and mortar for a new business facility, the engineers and architects make sure the foundation is structurally secure. But when FONA International built its headquarters in Geneva, Illinois, founder Joe Slawek added a beautifully literal foundation: before the concrete was poured, employees placed Bibles beneath the floors of key

For many driven professionals, the cultural prescription for career success is simple: push harder, move faster, and accumulate more. We wrap our identities in our productivity, white-knuckling our way through demanding schedules until we find ourselves completely trapped in a toxic cycle of exhaustion.   Alissa Crouse knew this reality intimately. At forty years old,

Few things crush a professional ego faster than throwing your entire heart into a project, only to watch it completely flop. Chris knows that feeling! In the early days of Mission Central, he spent weeks making phone calls, sending LinkedIn messages, and pulling every relational lever he had to launch a leadership cohort, only for

How would you explain the meaning of a kiss to an alien who had never seen one?   You could describe it anatomically, of course, or define it abstractly as a symbol of romantic affection. But a kiss isn’t experienced as a mere abstraction. It doesn’t just represent love; it physically communicates and accomplishes it.

Many of us look at the word entrepreneur and picture a distinct archetype: a natural risk-taker, someone driven by economic opportunities and a lifelong dream of building an enterprise from the ground up. But what happens when the calling to build a business comes not from long-standing ambition, but from a quiet, practical necessity to