God's Work helps you discover how your everyday work is deeply connected to your faith.
Many Christians feel a divide between “sacred” work and everything else. But God is present in every workplace. In this podcast, pastor and author Tom Nelson equips you to see your job - paid or unpaid - as a place of purpose, spiritual growth, and mission.
Each episode combines biblical wisdom, practical insight, and real-life stories to help you navigate challenges, lead with integrity, and live out your faith from Monday to Sunday.
Whether you’re in an office, at home, leading a team, or starting something new, Work Matters will help you approach your work with clarity, resilience, and purpose.
Because your work isn’t separate from your faith - it’s central to it.
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Who's actually helping you get your work done, and are you tapping into help you're missing?
In this episode, Tom Nelson tells the story of Dr Matt Earnest, an interventional cardiologist who, in the middle of high-stakes surgery, relies on far more than his own training. On his 17-minute drive to the hospital for a middle of the night emergency, Matt talks with God, asking for wisdom, clarity and the right words for whatever the moment demands.
Drawing on Genesis, Psalm 121 and Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Tom unpacks the Hebrew word "ezer", helper, and shows how God was never meant to be a distant observer of your work, but an active partner in it.
You'll learn:
-Why God designed us not to work alone, from the very beginning
-How the Psalmist's cry "my help comes from the Lord" applies directly to your Monday
-Three simple practices for inviting God into your workday: remembering, asking and giving thanks
-Why even the most highly trained professionals can't take full credit for their best work
You were never created to be self-sufficient. The Triune God is your most important workplace helper, ready to give you wisdom, strength and steady presence.
4 Oct 2026
How are you smelling at work?
What kind of witness for Christ are you at work, and are people picking up on it without you saying a word?
In this episode, Tom Nelson reflects on a chance conversation on a plane, where a stranger asked him, out of nowhere, "Are you a Christian?" Drawing on Paul's striking metaphor in 2 Corinthians, Tom unpacks what it means to be "the aroma of Christ," and how our witness at work is shaped by far more than the words we say.
Tom explores how a distinctly Christlike character, in our attitudes, our treatment of others and the quality of our work, becomes a fragrance that others notice, whether we realise it or not.
You'll learn:
-Why your non-verbal witness often makes your verbal witness credible
-How self-sacrifice, not self-advancement, marks a Christlike presence at work
-Why the fruit of the Spirit is one of the clearest signals of Christ in you
-How the excellence of your work itself can point others towards God
You are never just doing a job. In your attitudes, your actions and the work of your hands, you are exuding a fragrance, one that draws people towards life, or repels them.
27 Sept 2026
Loving your neighbour at work
What does loving your neighbour actually look like in your Monday world of work?
In this episode, Tom Nelson tells the story of Thomas Kim, who founded a car wash business not just to turn a profit, but to open doors of economic opportunity for vulnerable young people in his Chicago community. Tom then turns to the Old Testament story of Ruth and Boaz, where a landowner's quiet attentiveness to a vulnerable foreigner changes the entire course of her life, and ultimately the biblical story itself.
Drawing on the book of Ruth and Jesus's words in Matthew 25, you'll discover that neighbourly love isn't an add-on to your work. It's meant to be woven into the very fabric of it.
You'll learn:
-Why attentiveness, not grand gestures, is where neighbourly love begins
-How Boaz used his position to protect and provide for Ruth, without ever exploiting his power
-Practical ways to empower others in your workplace through mentorship, advocacy and opportunity
-Why Jesus says that what you do for "the least of these," you do for him
Your work is never just about you. Somewhere in your Monday world is a Ruth: someone overlooked, someone vulnerable, someone waiting for a door to open.
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