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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…

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Living In Transit (A Guest Post)

  This is a guest post from Kelley Nikondeha, one of the most fascinating people I’ve met.  The way she reads the Bible and talks about it widens my viewpoint every time, and her bicultural life is one I can’t even imagine.  I’m so excited that she’s here sharing her thoughts on how she lives her…

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How Do We Become People Who Love?

  It’s one thing to say ‘we need to steward well.’  It’s another thing to do it, and to do it naturally.  How do we become people who are wise givers, who love well?  How can we counter the consumptive ways that are always working to shape us into consumptive people? How can we give…

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Pursuing Vocation Alone?

  I don’t know what it really means to pursue vocation. To love others.  I can read and theorize and have my ideals.  But when the rubber hits the road, and you make a move that seeks honesty and flourishing in a place that seems opposed to that, and you just crash and burn, what…

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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…

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How Does Vocation Impact Our Places of Work?

  What makes a business ‘Christian’?  Is it merely slapping a Jesus label on it?  ‘A place where Christ is modeled, not preached’?  Isn’t that what we’re supposed to be doing all the time, anyway? Or is it a business that tries to align itself with kingdom values, even if the name Jesus isn’t front…

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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…

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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…

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Identity and Vocation, Defined

  What is identity?  What’s vocation?  Why are they important?  When you do figure out a definition, how does it affect your life?  I’m going to spend the rest of the month digging into Identity and Vocation, and what it means for us. A lot of the ideas for this series come from Walking with…

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