Even as we once put off our old self and put on our new self, we are to choose to live into the new each day. At times, we fall back into our...
I relished those first few years in the executive suite. Confident. Bold. That’s the image I wanted to project. But soon enough...
Henri Nouwen was a successful university professor, writer, and lecturer. At the height of his career, he left the prestigious world of Harvard to live and work among the mentally handicapped and...
Author John Erickson started submitting his short stories in 1967 while working full-time as a cowboy. But by ’82—with two new rejection slips and his wife pregnant with their third child—a few...
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Sample assignments for seminary professors teaching Ecclesiology or Missiology.
I remember the brilliant light igniting the eerie black mornings, the sun still fast asleep in the hay. The chocolate letters jumped...
In these few reflections, we have seen that growing up in Christ depends on Christ. He is the head from which the body grows to maturity. He is the one who supplies what...
Text: Isaiah 43:18-19 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold...
Nothing beats an honest day's work, so the saying goes.
Have you ever had a conversation like this? "So what do you do for a living?"
There is a story I have told many times about four men, raised to serve God. At a young age, they are...
When I was a teen, I worked at a local restaurant as a busboy. It was my job to splash water in tall glasses for each new table, carry plates out for the...
‘Twas the eve of my first job when all in my thoughts, ...
"Our job is to help people make sense of the situation and put their lives back together." Claims adjuster Dan Reed describes his efforts to bring order out of chaos.
I was recently invited to teach a session of a seminary class called “Pastoral Functions” at an extension of Trinity Evangelical Divinity...
The whole premise behind the organization that calls itself "The High Calling" is that we serve God through our daily work. It's the idea that the Church is not a gathering of believers...
[Elijah] went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O...
If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...
In the day of Jeremiah, the Temple had become like a den of thieves. The people felt they could hide, safely protected from divine judgment, because they had access to the Temple.
