By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. I’ve been thinking a lot about vocation during these weeks of Advent, and the season has shifted my sense of how I’m seeking to live into the call God has placed on my life. What is my Advent vocation? And how does that shape my life as a “child of God, beloved…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Mr. Rogers and his television “neighborhood” have “classic” and even “iconic” status for many of us. If we personally missed it in its heyday, surely our kids would have watched it, perhaps even every day. When children are exposed so often to violence and uncivil behavior in cartoons and other media—to say nothing…
By David Williamson. I’m old enough to remember the motto “dress for success.” Recently, reading in Colossians about the clothing a person “puts on” as one of “God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with…..” (Colossians 3:12) reminded me of an article about a baseball player who was traded to the Yankees. A huge change in self-concept came to…
By Jo Swinney, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Jesus is, among so much else, an economic teacher. How can we receive his instruction today as authoritative for our economic thought and practice? Several of our most popular Economic Wisdom Project Talks explore the possibilities: Joshua Jipp of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School reflects on how his grandfather’s creative, unassuming and faithful service modeled the economic…
Reprinted from The Chalmers Center. From the very beginning, the content from When Helping Hurts helped shape how we handled our operations. Christy Chermak, Executive Director, Watermark Health When a patient walks through the doors of a Watermark Health clinic in Dallas, TX, they will be warmly greeted with a smile. Often, that smile is Julie’s. By all appearances, when Julie began volunteering at…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. On November 1 the Church celebrates the Feast of All Saints’. On All Saints’ we remember all the saints – past, present, and yet-to-come – and well-known and revered saints with a capital S, as well as lesser-known saints. Saints with a capital S include apostles, such as Peter and Paul; the…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Bruce Feiler is the author of thirteen books including Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2005), America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story (2009), Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (2014), and The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve (2018). This is worth noting…
By David Williamson. A friend who is a prosthetics surgeon is now in Ukraine providing prosthetics for people who have lost body parts as a result of war. He is doing important, exceptional work as a believer in Jesus. He has reminded me that Jesus made the lame and the blind a major part of his work. He promoted the…
By Sophie Sanders, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Upon retirement, many of us face major questions about identity and purpose. It’s exciting – a season of opportunity, possibility, and exploration. But it can also be daunting, disorientating, and depressing. Now that I’m retired, who am I? Who might I become? And what will I do? The good…
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