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April 2023

April 17, 2023

J. RICHARD MIDDLETON Prepares Us for the End Times!

Getting Our Eschatology Right with the New Heaven and New Earth. Scroll down to read...

March 2023

March 22, 2023

Is Our Gospel Too Small?

The truncated gospel versus the holistic gospel, Part 1. Many pastors, including myself, were trained...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

The Three Major Needs of Spiritual Formation

My doctoral mentor, Steven Garber, did his doctoral research on how people were able to...

February 2017

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...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Shalom is the Way it is Meant to Be

PEACE. It has the connotation in English of quiet tranquility and calm restfulness. But 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 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...

August 12, 2015

3 commitments that Sustain the Christian

A worldview, a mentor, a community. Nothing magic here, but these three habits of heart...

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...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Part of the Bigger Story

Finding our place in God’s huge story. I imagine having an out-of-body experience. As I...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Neo-Dortian? Neo-Puritan? Neo-Nuff?

So I wrote this post last month on why the "New Calvinism" (the young, restless,...

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...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Vocation and Occupation as Sacrament

Over lunch today at Elevation Burger, home to “burgers the way they’re meant to be,”...

February 2014

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 23, 2014

Ought-Is-Can-Will: The Code for Solving Problems

In this 4-1/2 minute video, Mike Metzger explains how reframing life's issues within the biblical...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

To be Human is to be Response-Able

Seems a long time ago now, but I once found a Narnia board game and...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The Great Big Cosmic Gospel

Below is my graphical representation of the Gospel. It is the four-chapter story of God’s...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

College Students Struggling to Find Significance in their Career Choices

KC McGinnis, over at the young adult magazine website, RelevantMagazine.com, has written a very helpful...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Easter Resurrection: Life after Life after Death

"Heaven is important, but it's not the end of the world!" I laughed out loud...

December 2012

December 09, 2012

“Redemption” by James K. A. Smith

Restoring creation will require the Spirit-inspired work of building caring institutions and life-giving habits. Jamie...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Essential Books on WORLDVIEW

The biblical narrative [ (1) Creation, (2) Fall, (3) Redemption, (4) Consummation ] explains more...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Searching for Happiness but our Dualism Gets in the Way

Two Dualistic Extremes–From Our Culture and From Our Churches. David Naugle, in his book Reordered Love, Reordered...

September 18, 2012

The Holistic Gospel of Reconciliation

God’s Mission and Our Mission of Reconciliation God’s mission through Christ is to reconcile all...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Dualistic Christianity and the Church

In the Western Church, we’re trapped in a worldview that assumes that we live and...

August 27, 2012

Evangelicals’ Disdain for Institutions

"Christians need to learn to love institutions again, and they won't get very far in...

August 27, 2012

Wonder, Heartbreak, Hope

Gideon Strauss has a wonderful way of articulating biblical truth. He is the Executive Director...