Analysis Of Every Good Endeavor, By Timothy Keller

In a person’s life, that person will have one role model that will stick with them. This role model may not be by the person’s side every single day, or every year, but the role model’s lessons and memory can last lifetimes. In “My Favorite Teacher” by Thomas L. Friedman, the author tells the readers about his role model, named Hattie M. Steinberg, and the impact she had on his life. Many times, people do not even realize how much of an impact one person can have on them until that person is gone.

In the article “The Obligation to Endure” by Rachel Carson she explains the danger and harm that comes with using toxic chemicals such as pesticides on our crops. By doing so Carson brings to light that are numerous amounts of people that are un aware of the toxic chemicals that they are unknowingly inviting into their homes and bodies. This is also seen in “Preface” when author Carl G. Herndi  says, “Writers need to make the invisible visible” (xxiv). Furthermore, this can be seen as a wake up call to all humanity. Both Carson and Herndl want to inform people onto what is going on in the world we live in, and to get people to start questioning rather harmful toxics are truly needed, and if so to what extreme.

Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland in November of 1835 to a family of handloom weavers, a group hit remarkably hard by the mechanization of the textile industry. Abandoning the minimal expectations and the now almost invaluable job of weaving in the Scottish industrial cities, Carnegie's family emigrated to the United States in 1848. After years of work and experience in the expansion of the steel industry, Carnegie obtained a general logic of arguments about labor to the broader realm of social relation, giving specific attention to the role of private upper-class wealth in a democratic society.

The book “What Does it All Mean?” by Thomas Nagel is about a diverse thoughts that philosophers encounter to give responses. In every chapter, Nagel talks about different consequences to a variety of problems. The chapters expose well-known theories that philosophers tested for flaws, in order to give answers. Instead of giving us definitive answers to a situation, he allows us to analyze and derive our own theories after considering the problem at hand as well as past outcomes.

Wealth can be defined as a surplus. This surplus is distributed among a society. The distribution creates associations among the people of the society with respect to wealth. The Gospel of Wealth, written by Andrew Carnegie, describes two classes and the association of wealth between them. Adam Smith’s passage, Of the Natural Progress of Opulence, similarly, includes a reciprocal relationship of production between the town and country. Unlike the other essays, Marx’s, Communist Manifesto, debunks the separation of classes and urges equal distribution of wealth and, The Position of Poverty, Galbraith’s composition, emphasizes the importance of wealth in the public sector to abolish poverty. The essays all have a common structure of the distribution of wealth and include some insight on how to maintain the distribution or how to alter it so that it is more beneficial to society. Carnegie, Smith, Marx, and Galbraith explain the distribution of wealth and it’s affects on society.

n Timothy Keller's book Every good Endeavor he explains the concept of aligning your personal work, calling, or vocation with God's. In the first chapter Keller starts it off by describing the "Design of Work” as the chapter's title mentions. Using scripture straight from the book of Genesis he points out that work was one of the first things that God put in place when he created mankind and creation. Much of what Keller is trying to communicate simply points to the idea that man was made to work. One particular instance where Keller points to this is when he says, "it is part of the blessedness of the garden of God.” He is explaining that work was not intended to apart of the punishment for sin, but rather that work was in place before sin

Turning on a stove, work. A letter, writing it is work. And money you can’t put a hand on. That’s the rules. To honor God” (65).

The title alone provides such an idea of what Timothy Keller wants to have come across in these opening chapters. It is that for a Christian every endeavor is a good one because of what it means and does for us as a human being.

Many people today find themselves in “dead-end” jobs, or they feel like work is purposeless and frustrating. At the same time, some people figured out that work is a blessing to them. People who suffer their lives in a slavery for many years in another country, think that work is a curse because they were ruled by people. They work because they are forced by other people. Work is a blessing for most people, but for some people work is a curse because of the lack of opportunity. Work is a blessing for those who understand it. To understand that work is a blessing was one of true understanding the purpose of life. It is important because not knowing the purpose of life brought people depressed. As Honore said “I'm retired from the Army, but

We all call ourselves “humans,” but what does that actually mean? The dictionary definition is “a human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.” I cannot deny that, this indeed is what a human is, but what does it mean to be human? Some may simply say having dominion over all species on earth. Others may look to scripture to tell them what it means to be human. This goes for me and author J. W. Rogerson.

“Work will set you free.” This slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz. I don't even know if i feel sad or angry for what happened ,although i do have many doubts , who`s, and what's. I do agree with what Elie Wiesel said because everyone should help out and come together so that we as citizens of our country can make a change.

The poem, “What Work Is” by Philip Levine is an intricate and thought-provoking selection. Levine uses a slightly confusing method of describing what work actually is. He gives the idea that work is very tedious, however necessary. It is miserable, however it is a sacrifice that is essentially made by many if not all able-bodied members of society. Many have to sacrifice going to a concert or a movie, but instead work jobs with hardly a manageable salary. This poem seems to have a focus on members of the lower-class or middle-class who live paycheck to paycheck and are unable to put money away for a future for their children or for a vacation and how difficult life can

"But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does? I've had a good look at what God has given us to do-- busywork mostly. True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time-- but He's left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether He's coming or going. I've decided there's nothing better to do than to go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life. That's it-- eat drink, an make the most of your job. It's God's gift." (Ecclesiastes 3:9-13)

Every Good Endeavor shows the reader the true meaning of work and what working means from a Biblical view and the dignity within the work. There are different views and feelings towards work, but in this book Keller explains how work has always been a part of life, beginning with God’s creation of the world (33). God not only works, but He finds delight in His work (Gen. 1:31). Through God’s work we see His love and how He takes care of us as He works as our Provider. God works, but He also commissions workers to carry on His work. Keller states, “It was part of God’s perfect design for human life, because we were made in God’s image, and part of his glory and happiness is that he works, as does the Son of God, who said, “My Father is always

According to Keller (2002), work due to sin can become an idol, pointless, fruitless, lead to alienation, and lead one to seek and to identify with their status or position, a job can bring them in the present life; however, that is not how work is meant to be but rather allow one to use their gifts and abilities while remaining in their own capacities, use work to benefit others and their field of work, and to bring about joy and happiness that one is living out their destiny. The way one views work has the ability to change their whole life since one was meant to work in the first place. Despite that businesses are able to contribute to the redemptive plan all the way down to the operation of the organization.