Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. As the Chalmers Center staff gathers with our churches and families to celebrate Easter this week, we join with Christians around the world, declaring “He is risen!” Jesus’ death and resurrection is what secures our reconciliation with God, ourselves, others, and all creation. The one who made all things is remaking us, as Paul tells…
By Brandon Beck, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. My four-year-old friend and I, along with his mother who is the Director of Children and Family Ministries here, went to the local Christian bookstore yesterday to look for craft supplies for the upcoming Palm Sunday children’s formation lesson. The mother and I were chatting as we walked from the parking lot…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part seven of a series. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 This is the final of seven devotions dealing with some false stories about work which we might hear about, or even unconsciously absorb; as well…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Edward D. Zinbarg (MBA, Wharton; PhD, New York University) spent thirty-five years at Prudential Insurance as chief economist, chief investment officer and executive vice-president. During those years he also taught finance at City University of New York for fifteen years and co-authored the widely-used textbook Investment Analysis and Portfolio Analysis (1986). In his retirement, he…
By David Williamson. This is the sixth and final post of a series. Calling suggests a spiritual foundation. Workers who experience their work as a calling are happier, and perform at a higher level. Dik and Duffy’s book Make Your Job a Calling provides helpful guidance for that process and a very useful addition the process of finding a job that…
By Sam Brown, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. Luke 22:56–57 The mayhem of this situation doesn’t always leap off the page. Jesus, having been…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Old Testament will help your students explore how this often-challenging material – the large majority of our Bibles! – provides vital insight for how we live our lives today. As we strive for economic wisdom, we need to know, and know well, the firm foundation God laid for his post-Pentecost people…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Restoring people to sustaining work is a key component of poverty alleviation. One of the most effective ways to work toward this is by starting a holistic work readiness ministry. But launching a work readiness ministry is a major undertaking that involves a lot of moving parts. To run your first class, you need to…
By Edward Lee, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler There is something self-evident in learning, unlearning, then relearning and unlearning again as we grow in body, mind, and spirit. It is both innately and intentionally developmental.…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part six of a series. “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be…
