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I have been intending to write this article for about a month now, and it’s just never felt right. So it never happened, it kept getting pushed to the back burner. The idea was there, but full inspiration never struck to allow me to put this all down on paper.
And now I know why…
Because if I had written it before today, I would have written it entirely backwards and it wouldn’t have been nearly as good.
But today I came across the missing piece and it totally flipped this article on its head.
Instead of starting where I had planned to start, that will now be the ending and I’m going to start in an entirely different place….but it’s going to be oh so much better!
I should also say this is a very different article from what I normally publish. This is not news-based and I hope this will live online for years and decades to come. Because I think it’s that powerful. Not because of me or anything I am going to write here, but because of the two messages I am going to show you.
So let’s dive right in….
The thing that totally flipped this article was when this rare sermon from Billy Graham suddenly appeared on my YouTube feed today.
I had never heard this before but it absolutely blew me away!
And I think it might radically shift things for you too.
First, let me tell you a little story about why this absolutely jumped off the screen to me….
I started this website back in 2015 with absolutely ZERO experience in journalism and ZERO experience doing anything online.
We had zero readers, zero page views, zero funding. We had no website. We had no technical skills to build a website.
We had absolutely nothing.
But I started this because I had a passion for doing it, and that passion plus our mission of simply telling the truth without censorship led to fast growth. We quickly gathered over 1 million people on Facebook who appreciated the work we were doing, then millions more joined our email newsletter, and now in 2025 we have over 5 million monthly readers and growing fast.
But what I want to talk about is not 2015 or 2025….no, I want to talk about the dash in the middle.
Because when I started this in 2015, it was as a mere hobby. I felt a real purpose in doing it and working on this energized me, so I began to start to spend nights and weekends doing this.
But I also had a job and a career and a profession, so I would do my J-O-B during the day, leaving the house at 8 am, returning at 5:30 or 6:00 pm. And while the job drained me, working on this refilled my cup.
Of course there was also family and friends who were important along the way, but for the purposes of this article I’m focusing only on the work side of things, and the job was sucking life out of me. But whenever I could work on this it was radically different. I had passion and I had purpose.
I was good at the job, and in fact had risen to about the highest level I could reach in that particular work, but it wasn’t satisfying. It didn’t feel like my ultimate purpose. I didn’t want to do it for the next 20 years and then have a “retirement party” where the company brings in a sheet cake and says “thanks for all your years of service, now please leave” and we all eat cake in the break-room making awkward small talk as we always do (how was YOUR weekend?) under fluorescent lighting and white noise office machines in vanilla cubes where the biggest excitement is whether this Friday is “jeans day”! Oh my!
I was always amused by the office small talk, because it seemingly always focused only on three topics: (1) the weather, (2) the weekend, and (3) sports, particularly local college sports.
And regarding “the weekend”, it seemed to me as though the focus was always just on how far away we were from any particular weekend. On Monday, I’d say at least 10% of my work day was responding to people asking “how was your weekend?” Sometimes that would spill over into Tuesday. Wednesday was of course no-mans land, the memory of the prior weekend had faded, but we weren’t quite close enough to begin thinking about the next weekend. Then came Thursday, which started up all the “got any big plans for the weekend?” small talk, which would spill over into Friday, and then Friday afternoon some people would basically say enough is enough and leave early to finally start their weekend.
And round and round that cycle went, week after week after week.
In fact, we spent so much time there, we would put up little pictures of our family, as if to say “I remember these people! I don’t see them very much, so I keep little pictures of them here with me in this vanilla box where I work to remind me of the memory of these people.”
So….for a large part of that 10 year “dash” period of time from 2015 to 2025, I wrestled with whether or not I should leave the job and do this full time.
But as I sought advice and insight from people, I mostly got worry and fear and doubt in response. All very well meaning, but no one really saw the vision. Why would you leave a job where you’ve reached the top and it’s SAFE and SECURE?
What if the website fails?
What if people suddenly stop reading?
What if Trump leaves office? Spoiler alert: he will one day.
What if Biden wins in 2020? Spoiler alert: he did, or at least they said he did.
What if Mark Zuckerberg bans you AGAIN? Spoiler alert: He did. Twice. For no reason.
What if the email companies ban you? Spoiler alert: They have. Many times. For no reason.
So many things to worry about, and yet I knew this was my calling. It was where my passion and my purpose were found.
And it wasn’t just about me, it was about serving all of you! It was about bringing new value to the world. Each day, new creations, new articles that we write, new truth that we help push out there past the censorship.
So despite all the risks and things to worry about, despite all the attacks from Big Tech, we’re still here. We’re still standing. And eventually I made the very scary decision to leave the job to do this full time.
And so it’s with all of that in mind, that I hopefully was able to impart to you even in some small measure, that when this message from Billy Graham popped up in my YouTube feed today I was absolutely blown away!
It felt like all the tough decisions I had wrestled with for the past 10 years were perfectly summed up in one 30 minute video.
Many of the things I had personally felt and said — the things that almost no one else seemed to understand — and suddenly it was Billy Graham saying them back to me! Verbatim!
I never felt like I was made to do that job for my whole life…
Many people told me the job was security. It was safe! It was secure! Don’t be foolish and give away the safe and secure thing, they told me!
They all meant well, and looking at it from the outside-in, that’s good, solid advice.
But it never felt that way to me.
The job never felt secure.
To me, the job felt wildly INsecure. Unsafe. Unreliable.
It always felt to me like I was reliant upon someone else, someone who could cancel that job at any moment’s notice! Maybe the economy takes a turn down, maybe my employer mis-manages the business, maybe a huge market crash happens.
And almost no one who I shared that opinion with understood what I was saying. They just looked back at me with these confused eyes, almost looking at me like they were sad for me and scared for me. Poor Noah, he’s being very foolish! Very risky! Very un-safe!
Even if we stayed in business and I kept the job, I was still entirely reliant upon someone else. “Congratulations Noah! It’s annual review time and we’ve determined we’re going to increase your salary by 3%. Isn’t that amazing?” Uhhh, not really, but thanks I guess? 🤷♂️
But today, for the very first time, I heard someone saying back to me ALL of these things I knew and felt for all these years….and it was Billy Graham of all people!
I will post the full transcript of this message farther down below, but here’s just a portion to give you an idea of what Billy says in this incredibly powerful message, and I think you might just see how this absolutely jumped off the screen to me:
When God made Adam, He didn’t hand him a job application.
He didn’t tell him to go find employment.
He placed him in the Garden of Eden and gave him an assignment.
Work existed before sin.
Work was never meant to be toil, struggle, or survival.
Adam was given dominion, authority, and responsibility.
His role was not to be employed but to be deployed —
to steward, to cultivate, to expand.
And yet look at the world today.
We are told from childhood to go to school, get good grades,
find a stable job, and retire.
But that’s not God’s plan.
God never intended for man to chase a paycheck.
He intended man to chase purpose.
He designed you to be a ruler, not just a worker —
a creator, not just a laborer.
When you realize that your calling is greater than a career,
you begin to walk in your true identity.
The enemy has tricked many into believing that security comes from a paycheck,
that provision is in the hands of an employer.
But the first man was not given a salary —
he was given an assignment.
And that same principle applies today.
God did not send you into this world to be hired.
He sent you to be sent.
You are not meant to look for a job —
you are meant to look for your God-given assignment.
The world has trained people to think that success is tied to employment.
From the time we are children,
we are told to get an education,
find a good job, earn a salary,
and work until retirement.
But that is not the way of the kingdom.
God never said, “look for a job.”
He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
There’s a difference between what the world teaches
and what God calls us to do.
The world says find a job to survive.
God says find your purpose to thrive.
The world says you need employment to provide for your needs.
God says, “I am Jehovah Jireh, your provider.”
The world system is built on labor, wages, and effort,
but the kingdom of God is built on faith, calling, and supernatural provision.
Because God never said, “Look for a job.”
He said, “Take dominion.”
And when you do,
you will never lack again.
A job is temporary.
It can be taken away in an instant.
Companies close.
Economies crash.
Positions get eliminated.
People who put their trust in a job
often live in fear —
fear of layoffs, fear of unemployment,
fear of not making ends meet.
But purpose —
purpose is something no one can take from you.
The whole thing is just absolutely incredible.
Please watch below, but then don’t stop there!
This is just “Part 1” of this message.
“Part 2” is down below, and that’s the original message that was intended to be in this article, before I stumbled upon this missing piece of the puzzle today.
Please enjoy (and then keep scrolling down):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBnGACs7Ddo
Ok, now for the second half of this article.
This “second half” was actually originally intended in my head to be the entire article, but God had other plans and now it’s the closing section to the introduction above.
From Billy we go to Louie….
Louie Giglio is someone I view as the Billy Graham of our day.
Of course the two men lived many years as contemporaries, but Louie is a few decades younger than Billy, and he carries the same kind of mantle, reaching hundreds of thousands of people with very powerful, life-changing messages.
And so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that these two men are almost perfectly in sync on this topic.
I wouldn’t say “Passion and Purpose and Work” were the leading topics for either of these pastors over the course of their careers, but as is evident from this article, it was something they both spoke on from time to time. And when they did speak on this topic, it was powerful!
So now we go to a message that by all accounts has been entirely scrubbed from the Internet. Probably because the Internet, or at least social media, didn’t really exist at the time this was recorded and so it never really got posted.
It’s from the Passion Conference in 2006, Passion06, an annual conference where tens of thousands of (mostly college aged students) show up to each year and pack out stadiums, often bigger and louder and more powerful than any professional sporting event or concert you might ever attend.
That’s exactly what happened at Passion06, held in January 2006 in Nashville, TN.
This was the closing session on January 5th, Session 6, and it was a message from Louie Giglio.
While it’s been scrubbed from the Internet or perhaps never posted at all, the good thing is I was there in person and I still have the CD I purchased! So the message lives on!
As well it should, because it’s one of the most powerful messages on passion and purpose I have ever heard. In fact, that’s was the title of it: “Passion and Purpose”.
It all comes from Colossians 3:17, which reads: “Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”
I won’t be able to do it justice writing about it here, but the good news is I have the message for you that you can watch down below.
And I think you’ll see it lines up so powerfully with Billy Graham’s message.
You see, it says “Whatever you do….” and that word “Whatever” is a very powerful word.
Your Passion and your Purpose in the world could be in anything….
For me, I was good at my job, but it wasn’t my Passion or my Purpose in life, so it was taking life away from me.
My Passion and my Purpose, at least partially (there may be other things that emerge over the next 50-60 years) but at least for right now, in the realm of work, my Passion and my Purpose is in running this website and serving all 5 million of you!
Of course I can’t begin to really do that message justice, so I’ll just let you hear it direct from Louie. And see if you aren’t blown away with just how perfectly this compliments Billy Graham’s message above.
This is so good, please enjoy:
Incredible, right?
Make sure you save this article and bookmark it because people need to hear these messages.
Share them with your family and friends.
You may not even realize it, but I guarantee you there is at least one person in your circle of influence that needs to see this right now.
Not necessarily what I’ve written here, but they need to see these two messages.
For someone out there — probably many someones — this will be life-changing, and it will put them on a new path, a new destiny, to find and live out the PASSION and the PURPOSE they were created for.
Does that mean all of you should quit your jobs?
NO!
I didn’t right away, it took me years and years.
Does that mean all of you should go into the Ministry?
NO!
I didn’t.
But it does mean you should find out what Passion and Purpose God created for you to have in life. And then start walking towards that.
I’ll end with a backup of the Billy Graham message in case this is ever needed, as well as a full transcript directly below the video:
Billy Graham: God Said DON’T Look For A Job!
Incredible message, I have never heard this one before! pic.twitter.com/TXqImtA1K1
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) May 1, 2025
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Billy Graham
When God made Adam, He didn’t hand him a job application.
He didn’t tell him to go find employment.
He placed him in the Garden of Eden and gave him an assignment.
Work existed before sin.
Work was never meant to be toil, struggle, or survival.
Adam was given dominion, authority, and responsibility.
His role was not to be employed but to be deployed —
to steward, to cultivate, to expand.
And yet look at the world today.
We are told from childhood to go to school, get good grades,
find a stable job, and retire.
But that’s not God’s plan.
God never intended for man to chase a paycheck.
He intended man to chase purpose.
He designed you to be a ruler, not just a worker —
a creator, not just a laborer.
When you realize that your calling is greater than a career,
you begin to walk in your true identity.
The enemy has tricked many into believing that security comes from a paycheck,
that provision is in the hands of an employer.
But the first man was not given a salary —
he was given an assignment.
And that same principle applies today.
God did not send you into this world to be hired.
He sent you to be sent.
You are not meant to look for a job —
you are meant to look for your God-given assignment.
The world has trained people to think that success is tied to employment.
From the time we are children,
we are told to get an education,
find a good job, earn a salary,
and work until retirement.
But that is not the way of the kingdom.
God never said, “look for a job.”
He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
There’s a difference between what the world teaches
and what God calls us to do.
The world says find a job to survive.
God says find your purpose to thrive.
The world says you need employment to provide for your needs.
God says, “I am Jehovah Jireh, your provider.”
The world system is built on labor, wages, and effort,
but the kingdom of God is built on faith, calling, and supernatural provision.
Look at the life of Jesus.
He never told anyone to apply for a job.
Instead, He called people to follow Him.
When He met Peter, James, and John,
they were fishermen, working a trade to earn a living.
But Jesus didn’t offer them a better fishing job —
He called them into a divine assignment:
“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 4:19)
He shifted their focus from a job to a mission —
from employment to deployment.
Many people today are stressed, anxious, and frustrated
because they are chasing careers instead of chasing purpose.
They are looking for security in jobs