By David Williamson. In spring, students are looking forward to graduation and/or summer vacation, or perhaps to fall and what might be possible socially as well as academically. I think of the teachers who have made this school year effective and point to the future with hopefulness. Teaching is of the largest and most important fields of modern work. It…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Culture will help your students understand the social structures that shape them as human beings, for good and for ill, and how we can act to strengthen what is right and challenge what is wrong in those structures. The gospel is not spoken into a vacuum, but into the dynamic world…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Material poverty is complex and not reducible to a single cause. Healthy, sustainable poverty alleviation ministries need to address all five root causes of material poverty – individual brokenness, systemic brokenness, false stories of change, broken and destructive formative practices, and demonic forces. Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at Ministry Design Principles that contribute…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Several months ago, I returned to the gym for the first time since the pandemic started. It wasn’t easy. Not because I was physically incapable of resuming regular exercise, but because working out at the gym was no longer a daily practice. I made excuses not to go. However, as I eased…
Reprinted from Eternity. The Importance of Learning about Worldviews We have just celebrated Easter, such a significant plot twist in the Christian story. It is a key component of the Christian worldview. A friend of mine describes worldviews as “the stories we live by.” I love that definition because it makes it more tangible and less scary. The reality is…
Reprinted from Workplace 313. Workplace 313 is excited to offer churches and study groups a 12-part series of 18-20-minute videos with Dr. David W. Gill—plus a downloadable Study Guide—on the basics of workplace discipleship (“faith at work”). Our churches help members with the basics of prayer, Bible study, evangelism, and church and family life. But there is usually a gaping hole when…
By David Williamson. Looking at the annual appeal for a charity providing farm animals to poor families, from Africa to the Far East and in the U.S. – and, this year, Ukraine – I started thinking about the high Calling of a veterinarian’s assistant. I thought of two important and biblically grounded characteristics: love and the exercise of dominion. A…
By Sophie Sanders, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Shape tracking. Sequential memory. Reactive avoidance. Most of us don’t even know what these words mean, let alone use them in our daily lives. But John Archer does both. He loves his job as a trainee air traffic controller and uses these incredibly specialised skills to direct and divert…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on History will help your students see that they are part of a much bigger story – the story of the mighty works of God done among us, his people, across the centuries since the coming of the Word and Spirit. From a 4th century witness against slavery to the social witness…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Ministry focused on addressing poverty is fundamentally about promoting change. It’s about helping people and communities move to a better situation than their present one. Effective poverty alleviation requires us to know where we are trying to go and how we can get there. In other words, we need a “story of change” – or as it…
