Search results for: "creation mandate" (23)

The High Calling of Everyday Ordinary Living

Blog

Can a Christian simply dedicate his or her life to loving God and loving neighbors, or does God demand us to be...

A Pastor’s Perspective on Work in the Bible

Article

Alistair Mackenzie gives a biblical overview of what the Bible says about work.

Human Creativity With God (Psalm 104)

Bible Commentary

From the beginning, God intended human work as a form of creativity under or alongside God’s own creativity.

Authority (Psalm 8)

Bible Commentary

Psalm 8 is an exception in Book 1, as it does not pertain specifically to David. Its concern is with all human...

Abraham’s Faithfulness Contrasted with the Faithlessness of Babel (Genesis 12:1-3)

Bible Commentary

God called Abraham into a covenant of faithful service, as is told at the beginning of Genesis 12. By leaving the...

Fruitfulness/Growth (Genesis 1:28; 2:15, 19-20)

Bible Commentary

Why are we called to "be fruitful and multiply"?

Dominion (Genesis 1:26; 2:5)

Bible Commentary

What does it really mean to exercise "dominion"?

The Universal Call to Work

Article

God created you as a worker, and he commands you to work, even if he doesn’t mail you a specific job offer.

The Call to Belong to Christ and Participate in His Redemptive Work in the World

Article

In the Bible, the word “call” is used most often to refer to God's initiative to bring people to Christ and to...

Goodness and Defilement of Work (Jeremiah 2)

Bible Commentary

Long before Jeremiah lived, God declared that work is good for people (Genesis 1-2). As we have noted elsewhere,...

Titus: Working for Good Deeds

Bible Commentary

Paul’s letter to Titus is the final Pastoral Epistle and has many similarities to 1 and 2 Timothy. (For Titus 1:5–9,...

God Worked in Creation, Making Humans Workers in His Image (Colossians 1:1–14)

Bible Commentary

In Colossians 1:6, by allusion Paul takes us back to Genesis 1:26–28. Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our...