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May 2024

May 13, 2024

Women’s Callings in their Work with Joanna Meyer

Author of "Women, Work, and Calling" Here at Reintegrate, we believe that through your day-to-day...

June 2023

June 24, 2023

Work/Life Balance is a Myth

Lisa Slayton, founder of Tamim Partners and Director for CityGate (of the Denver Institute for...

January 2023

January 02, 2023

New Year’s Resolutions – Go Small

We are pressured to make grand New Year's Resolutions. But does God want us to...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Pixar’s “Soul” Spoiler Review – Jazzing Life and Finding Joy

Warning: SPOILER REVIEW (see NON-SPOILER review HERE) So, having done my non-spoiler review, let’s now...

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...

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...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

The Kingdom of God is Both/And not Either/Or

Much debate has been had in the church about the Kingdom of God, which is...

February 2017

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...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

Can a Cardiologist’s Life Matter to God?

In this six-minute video, Skye Jethani talks succinctly about how a theology of vocation (or...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

What is Vocation?

Stephen J. Nichols offers a concise (31 pages) and lucid biblical explanation of vocation in...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Vocation is Not Just One Aspect of the Christian Life; It is the Whole of Life (“Calling” Part 2)

Vocation is what humans do, and if humans are to participate in the mission of...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

“Calling” Part 1: Os Guinness and Skye Jethani

The word vocation comes from the Latin vocatio (summons), from vocare (to call). Therefore, a...

October 13, 2015

Spiritual Gifts – They’re Not Just for Church

A third way to understand Spiritual Gifts As a pastor, I have administered plenty of...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Why Vocation Matters: The 4 Chapter Good News Story (Illustrated!)

Below is an interactive presentation that explains the gospel of Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation and...

September 25, 2015

Calling Comes Before Ethics: What Peanuts, Volkswagens and Pharmaceuticals Can Teach Us

The Consequence of Our Two-Faced Lives. Former peanut executive Stewart Parnell was recently sentenced to...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Kate Harris: Cultivating Attentiveness

Learning to see the heart of God in our work. In this 3-minute video, friend...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Creation Is a Manifesto

We Christians sometimes try to be holier than God, especially when it comes to creation....

May 12, 2015

Restoring Homes to Restore a Community

Vocation and the High Calling of Construction. In this high-quality, five-minute video, Kimberly Renner explains...

May 11, 2015

The Christian Call for Women to Work

Over at Scot McKnight's blog, Jesus Creed, Scot has published an excerpt from a forthcoming...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Tim Keller – Why Work Matters

In this video, Tim Keller shares the biblical truth that all Christians are engaged in...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

What might your work give to the world?

Leadership Journal's "LJ Live" Event in Denver: "REDEEMING WORK." Back on March 13 in Chicago,...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

Common Grace for the Common Good

COVENANT SEMINARY Commencement Address, May 2014 I suppose I was a favorite of the librarians...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Video: Amy Sherman Gives Three Reasons Why Faith and Work Conversations Matter

At the first "LJ Live" gathering for Redeeming Work in Chicago, Skye Jethani, of Leadership...

June 17, 2014

Who Am I? Rooting Your Identity in the Image of God

A few years ago, I wrote the cover article for Comment Magazine's annual "Making the...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Steven Garber Video: Vocation is Integral to the Mission of God

In this 18-minute video, Dr. Steven Garber asks, “What is the relationship of faith to...

May 28, 2014

Two Callings: To be Christian and To Be Human

In this 60-second video, Andy Crouch talks about Calling. He says that there are essentially...

May 20, 2014

Playing It Safe Will Never Change the World

The dust swirled in the hot humid air as I trudged home from school. I...

May 06, 2014

Integral, Not Incidental

I think most of us want coherent lives; in fact we long for coherence. Given...