Reality Check: A Survival Manual for Christians in the Workplace

by Verla Gillmor and Verla Wallace

Book Overview

Reality Check is a refreshing call to deal with life the way it is--not the way we wish it were. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889651957
• ISBN13: 9780889651951
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Horizon Books Publishers
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Best Business Devotional

Reality Check has been the best business devotional for me this year for three reasons:First, Verla Gilmor communicates complex concepts with clarity, brevity, and wit. Some books in this genre bore me--this one stimulates.Second, Reality Check offers one dose of wisdom per week. The easy structure of Reality Check is not obvious, but the 52 fast reading chapters--most are 3-4 pages--make it possible to start anywhere in Reality Check at anytime.Third, Reality Check's illustrations are razor-sharp and the life-application questions create quick direction checks. They work! These questions can actually enrich the way a person lives out their days in the marketplace.Some of my favorite Gilmor illustrations come from her days as a reporter and broadcaster in Chicago, including her first "breaking" story as a young reporter on the sinking of a pleasure boat in a sudden storm on Lake Michigan, her home office being "robbed" while she was sleeping, and dealing with deception at City Hall. Her ability to select perfect illustrations shows in telling the stories of the famous tenor Leo Slezak, the first time tourists in the kingdom of Bhutan in the Eastern Himalaya's, and Governor Jim Edgar's anecdote that "There are all kinds of things about Lincoln I don't want to duplicate. Lincoln got shot,"For quick perspective and life-wisdom, Reality Check makes a solid contribution.

Practical, Easy, Challenges a Christian in the Workplace

An excellent resource for those who are willing to share their faith in the workplace. Verla shares pratical simple ideas. She inspires and gives you a kickstart from being complacent to a place of courageousness. Advice is given through short chapters which give you insight into her quick wit. She makes you think, chew things over and leaves you with questions at the end of each chapter. The thing is - she makes you rethink your relationship with God, to stop standing in the background and compromising, then challenges you to take a stand on biblical principles. Take this book to work, leave it on the side of your desk and wait for questions on what the book is all about. The chapters are short enough to read through lunch and have discussions with co-workers. What a challenge it would be to change the thinking of those around you!

A Lifesaver!

I'd been struggling with my workplace circumstances as the sales manager of a mid-size company. Being a Christian I looked for help from God. When listening to my local Christian radio station I heard an interview with Verla Gillmore about her book, Reality Check. I am slowly savoring her words as she carefully relates workplace circumstances and problems to answers found in the Bible. Her humor and humility are very easy to relate to. After I finish reading it through, I am going to go back and highlight those items I will need to refer to in the future. Thank you Verla!