Remembering the life, work, and ministry of Howard E. Butt, Jr., who died Saturday, September 11, 2016.
God slouches at the front of the universeleaning against his desk, taking rollwith a red pen in his spiral book of life.
The hope of Christians lies in Jesus’ work on the cross and his resurrection. What does the resurrection, which we celebrate during...
I’m 41 years old, and I’m still afraid to jump off the cliff.
St. Charles Borromeos was one night with a group of people playing chess. This was a social evening; they sat playing chess. And somebody injected into the conversation that evening, "If you were...
Have you ever wondered if what you're doing with your life and work are really worthwhile? Have you wanted to do something significant for God—to make your life really count?
So many of our bloggers have clearly learned much from our hoofed, webbed, clawed, and four-legged friends.
Does work with "material", earthly things have value?
There is no support in Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the world is irredeemably evil and the...
Throughout both Joshua and Judges, the land is of such central importance that it is virtually a character unto itself: “And the land had rest” (Judges 3:11, 3:30, etc.). The major action of...
1 Chronicles adds a detail not found in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings. David creates a corps of musicians “to make music...
Cutting wood along the bank of the Jordan River, one of Elisha’s fellow prophets loses an iron axe head into the river...
Herod’s Disturbance (Click Here to Read) In this daily reflection from The High Calling, Mark Roberts writes about how, in contrast to Herod in Matthew 2, we can submit our daily life and...
The plot to kill Jesus moves forward as Judas (one of the Twelve) goes to the religious leaders with an offer to...
This suggests that God’s secret weapon is generosity. If by God’s power you can be generous, wealth...
Jesus Applies for a Job (Click Here to Read) In this sermon on Luke 19 from The High Calling, George Cladis discusses...
The story of the woman at the well (John 4:1-40) has as much direct discussion of human labor as any story in...
The healing of the man at the pool of Bethsaida brings to the surface a controversy familiar from Matthew, Mark, and Luke...
Rather than risk reducing John’s passion narrative to a proof-text for work issues, we will address a single verse that is as...
The work of administering justice is just as important as the work of preaching the word.
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