Equipping people is a complex business. Structures can help to facilitate or hinder ministry. What is a help for the first generation...
According to the Small Business Administration, most new businesses fail within the first few years because they are underfunded. Sad but true...
J. I. Packer is a Board of Governors' Professor in Theology at Regent College; Vancouver, BC. He is author of many books...
Last summer, I had the privilege of participating in a medical mission trip to Guatemala. The team was made up of surgeons...
Gifts. Perhaps most of our concern, energy, financial resources at Christmas involve the selection, purchase, and giving of gifts. Often this concern...
The General Epistles begin with the twin principles that following Christ makes us able to trust God for our provision, and that...
I am what is sometimes called a “bi-vocational pastor.” I’m a minister at a small church, but I make the larger portion of my living with other jobs. Over the years I’ve supported...
Jonathan, a family physician, rarely discusses his faith while at work. Instead, he spends his lunch hour reading his Bible in the...
Two weeks ago, I went running with my pastor during lunch. You can do that in a small town. Somewhere around our...
The world of work is currently undergoing massive change. To some change is liberating, to others it is frightening. All are affected...
Isaiah begins by insisting that religious rituals nauseate God when accompanied by sinful living: What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt-offerings of...
Verse Theme Acts 1:6 When they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” Christian life occurs in a community oriented with...
James concludes his letter with a variety of exhortations on patience, truthfulness, prayer, confession, and healing. As always, these appeal either to...
Joseph immediately went about the work to which Pharaoh had appointed him. His primary interest was in...
Job is able to endure overwhelming loss without compromising his “integrity” or blamelessness[1](Job 2:3). But Satan does not give up. Perhaps Job...
I have been living on devotional snacks lately, thirty minutes here, fifteen there.
“What time is Mom getting off work?” my son asks as I tuck him into bed. ...
Examplary institutions are bringing together the worlds of academics, church, and society.
When our first child was born, my husband wondered how we would buy diapers. We lived in a small, rural community where my husband served a small, sweet congregation. My husband’s salary was...
Modern philosophers have added to our understanding of calling and vocation.
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