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July 2023

July 07, 2023

How to Reintegrate Faith and Vocations with Logos Daily Circle

With special guest, Jason Stone of Logos Daily Scroll down to read the episode...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

Preach and Teach about Working Toward More Proximate Shalom

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 4). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Help People Find their Identity in their Being the Imago Dei

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 3). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

January 23, 2019

Explain and call people to the Cultural Mandate as much as you do the Great Commission and Great Commandment

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 2). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

January 15, 2019

Preach Sermons that Tell the Story of Creation / Fall / Redemption / Consummation

Best Practices for Pastors For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors lead congregants...

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...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Overcoming Narcigesis: A Preaching Matrix to Help Pastors in Sermon Preparation

Introducing the (re)integrate preaching application matrix. Chris Rosebrough (the "Captain" of Pirate Christian Media)...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

Church Leaders: Please Affirm the High Calling of Our Daily Work

Church leaders, rightly, have a primary thing on their mind: The mandate to see people...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

A Crisis in Disciplemaking: Our Model for Church Mission

In this 11-minute video, Mark Greene, Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity...

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...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

So What’s Wrong with Neo-Calvinism?

In response to the rise of the new Calvinists, we need to make sure we...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

Helping People in Their Vocations: Pastors Share Their Stories

"I was repeatedly hearing back from congregants, ‘Thank God somebody is caring about this!’" That...

March 10, 2014

Seven Ways Church Leaders Can Help People Live Missionally Through Their Vocations

In 2012 and 2013, I helped to lead a “Vocation Infusion Learning Community” composed of...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

Preaching The High Calling of Everyone’s Vocations

3 reasons why pastors need to help people reintegrate their faith with their work. ...

February 10, 2014

How Can the Church Affirm Work? – Tod Bolsinger

In this 60-second video, Tod Bolsinger talks about how churches make the mistake of perpetuating...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Church’s Mission and the Kingdom of God

In this insightful video, the church as it relates to the people of God participating...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

From a pastor, To pastors: Are we doing a great disservice to our congregants?

Having been in ministry for over 20 years, I have come to a conclusion about...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Five Ways Pastors Can Affirm Faith, Work, and Vocation

Art Lindsey, over at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, writes "Today’s evangelical Church...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Is Your View of Ministry Too Church-Focused?

In my experience in church ministries, I have found that the pastoral staffs I've been...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

What is your church measuring? What does that say about your mission?

Edgar Schein, Professor of Management at MIT, says that whatever an organization measures and how...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

The Mission of God and the Missional Church

According to Alan Hirsch in The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church, a missional reading...

February 05, 2013

Ten Ways to Encourage Vocational Stewardship in Your Church

- 1. During corporate worship services, pray for members by vocation. This could take a...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Happiness, Meaning, and a Theology of Work

Originally Posted at Kruse Kronicle This month at The Atlantic’s website, there is a fascinating...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

Is Full-Time Vocational Ministry the Highest Calling?

I recently wrote an article for our friends over at The High Calling. The High...

September 2012

September 07, 2012

The Tension between the “Pastoral Context” and the “Missional Context”

Having planted a church, I’ve become convinced of something. New churches in North America must...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Ministering to Shrinking Enclaves

"A looming crisis for all American evangelical churches is that they cannot thrive outside of...

August 27, 2012

Tom Nelson: A Pastor Learns to Connect Sunday Worship with Monday Work

In this video, Tom Nelson explains that, as a pastor, he struggled to connect Sunday...