As we suggested in our last post, our careers, occupations and jobs may change throughout our lifetime. Our vocational calling, however, remains constant. This can be confusing, especially...
In order to understand the Biblical doctrine of work, we must clearly understand the differences between vocational calling and career, occupation, or job. Vocational calling is the call...
Stewardship forces us to think like economists. We must look past our hopes and good feelings when making decisions in the public and private spheres. We need to...
The doctrine of vocation was developed with its greatest rigor by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other reformers, as we have seen before. They believed that our...
Harvard Business School psychologist Timothy Butler offers the following advice in an article about how vocation differs from career or job: There are three words that tend to...
We are confronted with a wall between personal faith and public work, here at the beginning of the 21st century. The wall has been raised by two distortions...
Have you every heard someone say, “Did you hear about Jim Smith? He quit his job at the bank to go into full time Christian service.” I would...
Choice is full of uncertainty. Every time we make a choice we are making a bet over a particular set of outcomes which we can predict. Sometimes we...
Ed. Note: This post has been adapted from its original form. Read the full paper here. In this series on the Ascension, we’ve looked at the implications of...
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