Walk onto almost any Christian college campus and you can hear these two big ideas being taught: Christians should challenge their spheres of influence with Christian truth claims....
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands. —Psalm 90:17...
As we complete this series on the biblical doctrine of work and the church today, we discover a clue for how we can revive the neglected Biblical doctrine...
Work makes us interdependent. Work cultivates the resources of the material and human universe. Work is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others; civilization is...
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...
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...
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