I changed my profile picture yesterday. There was some personal backlash from conservative family members. A woman I used to go to church with, and haven’t talked to in years, posted a couple of times yesterday on my wall, explaining to me what the gospel really means, and who salvation is really for. People…
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A Vocation of Obedience (A Guest Post)
I’m so excited to have D.L. Mayfield sharing her story here today. She is another one of those people who impresses me with her commitment to live out what she believes. Her willingness to follow God where he calls makes me look more closely at my own life. I have held many things in…
Serving Outside of Our Gifts (A Guest Post)
I’m so excited to have J. R. Goudeau posting here today. Thanks to the world of social media, she has become a friend and an inspiring teacher. The way she sacrifices her life for others has challenged me, and so I asked her to share some thoughts about how her life has become shaped in the way that…
How Do We Become People Who Love?
Pursuing Vocation Alone?
Stewarding Our Love
A social imaginary, as described in Desiring the Kingdom, is the myths and narratives, stories and understandings we tell ourselves that form how we view the world. A prevalent one that we have in our culture is ‘I deserve what I have because I worked hard for this.” “I have found that the poorer…
Is It Who You Are, Or Just What You Do?
We can’t have healthy, Jesus-based discussions on identity and vocation, roles and purposes, until we admit what it is that Jesus has really called us to do. There is a myth we cling to that blinds us to who we are: “People get their worth and identity from their job.” And the church, which…
What Does Christian Vocation Look Like?
“Therefore, restoring identity and recovering vocation must be the focus of a biblical understanding of human transformation.” (WWP) If our vocation is to be working for the kingdom by loving God and loving others, what exactly does that look like? What does it mean to love something, someone? What does it mean to love…