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December 2020

December 07, 2020

Saved for a Mission – with JR Rozko

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description:...

October 2020

October 06, 2020

Are You Prepared for the Accelerated Change of the 2020s? – with Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: ...

September 2020

September 05, 2020

6 Differences Between a “Job” and a “Vocation”

As someone who seeks to help people discover their vocations, I've been asked this on...

August 2020

August 17, 2020

What is God calling me to do with my life? with Dr. Steven Garber (podcast)

The Seamless Life Now that I know what I know (about myself, this world, and...

August 05, 2020

Being Busy Is Not Cool

When I run into friends and acquaintances, they will usually ask me, “How’ve you been?”...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Can you serve Jesus and still enjoy your life? with Mike Wittmer (Podcast)

Can we be dedicated Christians and still indulge in the pleasures of this earthly life?...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Three Steps to Get Your Work Bearings During the Pandemic

Staying at home during the Coronavirus pandemic has been disorienting. For some of us, this...

February 2020

February 15, 2020

God’s Glory and Our Glory

Restoring Our Image-Bearing Humanity Part 1 You are glorious. Well, at least you’re supposed to...

February 13, 2020

Byron’s 2019 Reintegrate Book Awards

Byron Borger, with his wife Beth, owns Hearts and Minds Bookstore, a Reintegrate partner. It’s...

October 2019

October 11, 2019

Calling All Christians by Skye Jethani

This is an article I asked Skye Jethani to write back when I was a...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Designed to Work: What Do You Make Possible? by Mike Wittmer

Last month my employer-issued laptop slowed to a crawl. Every keystroke was followed by a...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Made in God’s Image Provides Us Our Job Description

Designed to Work Hands. Hands that can hold a wrench or a paintbrush or...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Quote of the Day: C. S. Lewis on the Ordinary Christian Life

"Before I became a Christian I do not think I fully realised that one's life,...

April 2018

April 03, 2018

How My Work is Like a Mustard Seed

In this 3-1/2 minute video, Bob Robinson talks about how Jesus compared the Kingdom of...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Our Hope is not for a Permanent Vacation in Heaven

As we enter into Spring, our family has been talking about what we want to...

March 20, 2018

Disintegrated, We Need Re-Integrated

My favorite cartoon characters of all time are those from Looney Tunes. Bugs Bunny, Daffy...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

Tom Nelson: The Day I Confessed Pastoral Malpractice

"Years ago, I stood before my congregation to make a heartfelt confession. It was indeed...

July 06, 2017

Discovering the Joy of Being Generative

It’s a game we often play. We jockey for position based on what we’ve accomplished...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Work Didn’t Always Suck

In our day, we know that work can often be frustrating. We get together with...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Jesus is More (But Not Less) than a Carpenter

“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses...

March 16, 2017

Are There Two Kinds of Grace?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. As God created everything in...

March 13, 2017

Four Ideas for Handling a Bad Boss

Oh, Mondays! As you get ready for work, you realized, "Ugh! I have to work...

March 07, 2017

The Good Creation Remains

A careful reading of the Bible will see that the original creation is corrupted but...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Your Identity Doesn’t Come from Your Work

So, you’re at a gathering and you meet someone for the first time. He asks...

February 21, 2017

Shalom is Broken (The Fall)

The four-part story of the Gospel is CREATION FALL REDEMPTION RESTORATION Sadly, in this post,...

February 16, 2017

The Consequences of the Fall

After the creative events recorded in Genesis 1 and 2, Genesis 3 records what theologians...

February 15, 2017

Work that is Unique to You (The Good Creation)

The first herders, musicians, and bronze workers are recorded in Genesis. “Adah bore Jabal; he...

February 13, 2017

Work is a Part of the Good Creation

Genesis 1 does not explicitly use the term “work,” but in the creation account recorded...

February 07, 2017

Creation of the Amazing Image of God (That’s You!)

For the days leading up to and after CCO's Jubilee Conference, I am going to...

February 03, 2017

The Callings that Only Come from the Holy Spirit

Skye Jethani, in a great insight in his book, Futureville (and also discussed in this...