Finally, the Bible says that your truest or deepest desires are also important to God. Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm...
These three considerations — the needs of the world, your skills and gifts, and your truest desires — are guides, but they are not absolutes. For one thing, in a fallen world, you...
A call to ministry or church work is no more sacred than a call to other types of work.
How you work is at least as important to God as what job or profession you have. In every job, you have...
Got the Job, but Not the Dream. Now What? (Click Here to Read) How do you plug your heart and soul into a job that you are just not into, one that is...
Although Moses was a Hebrew, he was raised in Egypt’s royal family as the grandson of Pharaoh. His revulsion to injustice erupted...
This article has been produced by a mixture of pastors and marketplace people and homemakers. We are very aware that, even as...
Esther was a woman who thought she had no influence over her husband or over matters of importance. Yet a desperate situation...
When we open the Gospel according to Luke, we immediately meet an elderly woman named Elizabeth, the wife of a Jewish priest...
The Book of Esther begins with King Ahasuerus (known to history outside the Bible as Xerxes) throwing a lavish party to display...
The problem of pain comes when times are hard. When we are passed over for promotion or lose a job, when we...
As we have seen, God prepared Jeremiah from before his birth for the work of a prophet (Jer. 1:5) and, at the...
Let us begin, as the Book of Ezekiel does, with God’s call to Ezekiel to become a prophet. When we meet Ezekiel...
As is typical with Twelve Prophets, the Book of Jonah begins with a call from God to the prophet (Jon. 1:1-2). Unlike...
In light of Jonah’s experience, we might fear that God’s calling will lead us into calamity and...
Nearly thirty years have elapsed between chapters two and three. John the Baptist reveals Jesus’ true identity as the Son of God...
In chapters 5 through 7, we heard Jesus teaching about the kingdom of heaven coming to earth. In chapters 8 through 9, we see him enacting that kingdom through deeds of compassion and...
The Great Commission is to “make disciples,” not merely to “win converts.”
God’s full presence in the world in the person of the man Jesus is news, astonishing news.
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