Showing posts with label calling or vocation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calling or vocation. Show all posts
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Scott Adams' deathbed profession of faith

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On the day of Scott Adams' death, he had arranged for a video to be released in which he professed his faith in Christ.  From one perspe...
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Sunday, October 15, 2017

How To Be a Furniture Salesman to the Glory of God

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I've written before about what I believe is the biggest scandal in the church : the fact that, on most days, we don't live lives of ...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Walking after God: Noah and the animals

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We've seen before how the ancient Israelites understood their duty to walk after God as a duty to imitate his good acts . They demonstra...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Youth worker succeeds beyond wildest dreams

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Do we think of Christian calling too narrowly? Back in 1891, a worker at the YMCA was given the job of developing an indoor sport that would...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

What Bible verse are you?

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"I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat ..." - Mother Theresa of Calcutta. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst f...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

On being like God (5), and index

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Since the earlier series about being like God, I've noticed how many things I missed. Here are a few of them: Those who establish righ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

What would better journalism look like?

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Every once in awhile I wonder what various industries would look like if they were run according to Christian standards and principles. Rece...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Ten Boom family: an iron resolve for kindness

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Corrie ten Boom, her sister Betsie and their father Casper spent decades of their lives perfecting one thing that many of us never master: t...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Ancient Beauties

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Professor Tolkien once said that a new word should be created, something that meant the opposite of a catastrophe, the opposite of a disaste...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

Mary of Bethany, Doctor of the Lilies of the Field

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Some of the great saints of ages past have been reckoned "doctors" of the church. It seems to me that Mary of Bethany had a lot to...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

On being like God (4): Finale

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Personal note: My schedule is clearing off so that I should be able to resume some of my earlier series this month. In particular, I've ...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

On being like God (3): creativity and righteousness

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Everyone has an ethical system. Everyone makes decisions based on what they think is good and right. Even those who claim that morality and ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

On being like God (2)

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Those who've known me for awhile already know: I like to trace things back to their roots. When it comes to the view that we should be l...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

On being like God

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Part of what it means to be human is to be like God. From the first mention of man in the Bible, before we are formed God has chosen to make...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Infinite God and the Book of Psalms

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God is infinite. Limitless. Boundless. This means that our best efforts to understand God will always fall short. It also means that it is a...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Increase our love: lifting ideas from those better than me

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In my quest to learn to love better, a note about Jesus' mother Mary opened my eyes to some other things around me. Mary treasured up al...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Dr Seuss and the baptized imagination

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Recently Ben Myers' blog mentioned a new book on Dr. Seuss' works as parables . This is not a review of that book, which I hope to r...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

John the Baptist, the tax collectors, and the soldiers: on a mission from God

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Today's Sunday School lesson was on John the Baptist -- not on the baptism of Christ, but on preparing the way (Luke 3). Tax collectors...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

What if your profession had been named?

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Tax collectors also came to be baptized. "Teacher," they asked, "what should we do?" "Don't collect any more ...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

Bono's Acceptance Speech at the NAACP: Transcript

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See the video at the Thinklings , it's much better as video than as transcript. But it's good enough to be quoted, so it needs a tr...
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