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Apr 12, 2012
Don't Mistake Doing What You Love With Doing What's Important
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A couple of weeks ago, my wife texted me, “Don’t forget to buy Megamillions tickets!:)” Upon learning of the $656 million jackpot, we couldn’t help ourselves from fantasizing about a potential... Read More + |
Jan 18, 2012
Community Post: You Be Jesus
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So what is a high calling anyway? Do we find it only near the baptismal font or on the missionary field? We know better. Our calling is right here, where we are. Do we see it, though? Jennifer... Read More + |
Jan 17, 2012
Vocational Surfing: Would Someone Puhleeze Ride that Wave?
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My friend refuses to eat at TGI Friday’s for theological reasons. Work was given to us before the fall of humankind, not after. For that reason, work is a good thing, as opposed to being the... Read More + |
Nov 24, 2011
Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work
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“Seeing the vital importance of vocation to God’s mission in the world was really a gradual and rather sober awakening in my life and pastoral calling. When I begin to more carefully study Holy... Read More + |
Nov 24, 2011
The Dark Side of the High Calling
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Do you know about the dark side of The High Calling? No, Darth Vader isn’t one of our editors, nor any of the other Star Wars bad guys. But there is a dark side to every good thing when we... Read More + |
Oct 22, 2011
Community Post: Twenty Men Fixing a Road
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Given that I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and work often in the Washington area, it’s not uncommon for me to drive on Interstates 81 and 66, often while on the way to participate in... Read More + |
Oct 21, 2011
Community Post: Vocation as Integral, Not Incidental
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Welcome to the West Coast! I grew up in this part of the world, in the Golden State, just to the south of Oregon. When I was 20 I dropped out of college, living in a commune in the Bay Area... Read More + |
Oct 5, 2011
Integrating Faith and Psychiatry, Part 4: Work & the Self
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Eric had leadership written all over him. Intelligence, good looks, and interpersonal drive had led to an MBA at a major university. When his first business venture failed, he was on to another... Read More + |
May 27, 2011
What Was It Keeping Me Awake?
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Though I worked until midnight last night and was dog tired, having got three hours of sleep the night before, I tossed for most of my six hours in the sack, trying not to wake my wife and... Read More + |
May 23, 2011
What Does the Missional Church Look Like?
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Christian Andrews was in his sixth year of studies at Princeton Theological Seminary when he walked away from those studies to help a small group of... Read More + |
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Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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