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...
Following up on our post discussing cultural movements in the 17th-19th centuries that have shaped our view of work, let’s not fail to address Karl Marx. While Marxism...
While the Reformers and the Puritans helped to recover the Biblical understanding of “calling” and how it applies to the everyday work of all Christians, their efforts were...
Recently we have looked at how the early church and the church in the Middle Ages drove a wedge between the sacred and secular aspects of the lives...
In our last post, we saw how the contribution of the early church fathers created the idea that pursuing the contemplative life or a professional role in the...
By the beginning of the third century we begin to see a subtle shift in the way Christians understood vocation. Conflicts with Jews and pagans gave rise to...
In light of the Old Testament background, it is not surprising to see the appreciation of work in the first-century Christian church that is very similar to the...
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and...
As we begin to understand that our work is important to God and He has given us everything we need to be successful in our calling, it is...
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