The Word Before Work
The Word Before Work is a weekly 5-minute devotional podcast helping Christians respond to the radical, biblical truth that their work matters for eternity. Hosted by Jordan Raynor (entrepreneur and bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time, Master of One, and Called to Create) and subscribed to by more than 100,000 people in every country on earth, The Word Before Work has become the go-to devotional for working Christians.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 311
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
New Series: Christmas Vocations
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But after [Joseph] had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said…
One Final Way to Prepare the Share the Gospel with Your Co-Workers
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope th…
From the Surface, to the Serious, to the Spiritual
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And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the myst…
3 simple ways to identify yourself as a Christian today
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Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees t…
How my co-worker Tim invited me to share the gospel with him
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. B…
New Series: 5 Ways to Prepare to Share the Gospel with Co-Workers
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You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your da…
The difference between "busyness" and "hurry"
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Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but sin…
3 Rhythms of Counterintuitively Productive Rest
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Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man …
Omnipresent God, Unipresent Jesus
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While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to sp…
Jesus and "a purpose harder than steel"
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Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have c…
Dissent from the Kingdom of Noise
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Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be …
Why the worst songs get stuck in your head
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“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the …
New Series: Redeeming Your Time
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Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to…
Reading the Gospels as Biographies
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only S…
"A Christian is something before they do anything."
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the…
Why God Doesn't Need You to Finish Your To-Do List
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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed awa…
The Truth About Our Never-Ending To-Do Lists
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To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I co…
New Series: 5 Biblical Truths About Time and Productivity
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet n…
3 ways to hustle less and trust more
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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you …
The absurdity of "letting go and letting God"
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The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. (Exodus 14:14)
This verse is one of the m…