Praise be to you, Lord Jesus, our healer!
Have you ever had an experience like that of Jacob? I'm not thinking so much of his dream as I am of his surprised recognition that "the Lord is in this place, and...
God called Abraham into a covenant of faithful service, as is told at the beginning of Genesis...
While we seek to honor God in our work, this does not mean the road will be easy.
If work has no single, unchanging purpose, perhaps it has a myriad of purposes, each meaningful in its own time. The Teacher explores this in the famous chapter beginning, “For everything there is...
What are we to make of this mix of good and ill, meaning and vanity, action and ignorance, which the Teacher finds in life and work? Work is a “chasing after wind,” as...
As he did earlier in the book, here Ezekiel presents his readers with a general rule (not...
Ezekiel's theology of work would be incomplete if not placed in the full context of future restoration alluded to throughout the book...
The hope we have lies not in making the best of the present situation, but in the...
We live in what theologians call “the already, but not yet.” The kingdom of heaven has already been inaugurated by Jesus in...
The good news is not a story of God abandoning the universe and retreating to heaven with a few special people.
The book of Acts begins with a post-resurrection interaction between Jesus and his disciples. Jesus teaches his disciples about “the kingdom of...
Romans 5:12–21 reflects a dense and complex theological argument involving a number of different contrasts between the...
Being “glorified” with Christ (Rom. 8:17) is our hope for the future. But according to Paul that...
Paul's letters to the Thessalonians highlight that God expects Christians to work, and to work with excellence.
Following Jesus is hard work, and only faith in the eventual fulfillment of his promises can keep us going. “Now faith is...
It is surprising that few systematic theology texts or courses demonstrate interest in exploring the meaning of work from a theological perspective...
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