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June 2023

June 09, 2023

Michaela O’Donnell PhD: Make Your Work Matter

Finding Meaningful Work in a Changing World. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

You Are Already a Missionary – In and Through Your Work

I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard people tell me that if they were...

December 2021

December 01, 2021

Work, History, and Discipleship – with Dr. Charlie Self

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description Yes, we can deepen our...

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...

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...

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...

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 06, 2015

Video Podcast: Bob Robinson – “The Roadmap”

In this sermon preached at Trinity Chuch in Mentor, Ohio, Bob Robinson gives an overview,...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Quotable Saturdays: Martin Luther – All Christians are of the “Spiritual Estate”

“It is pure invention that pope, bishop, priests and monks are to be called the...

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 16, 2015

Your Work is Not in Vain – Because of Resurrection!

N. T. Wright on Resurrection as it applies to 1 Cor. 15:58. "What we can...

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...

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...

July 28, 2015

“Missional Fatigue” – What Really Causes This?

In interview after interview with pastors in the Missional Church movement, I'm hearing more discussions...

July 23, 2015

Kate Harris: Cultivating Attentiveness

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

June 2015

June 29, 2015

The Disruption That is The Sabbath

When we first moved to St. Louis, we lived in a suburb that had two...

May 2015

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...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Redeeming Work from Leadership Journal – in Pittsburgh Thursday, May 7, 2015

Pittsburgh 2015 [button size="medium" link="" linkTarget="_blank"]Register For Pittsburgh 2015[/button] - Join us as we explore...

April 15, 2015

Missional Already in Our Work

Want to lead a missional church? Think "vocations." The great missiologist Lesslie Newbigin stated, “God’s saving...

April 02, 2015

Missional? Try Vocational!

The Missional Church in the World Through Vocations. The United States has been shifting into...

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...

October 2014

October 01, 2014

Are You Able to Stay Focused in your Vocation?

"The average person checks his cell phone 150 times each day. Is it any wonder...

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,...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Faith@Work Summit

Where Are We? & What Still Needs to Be Done? October 24-25, 2014 | Boston...