“We Had Fun”: Living into God’s Shalom
It is high-time for us to re-embrace beauty as much as truth and goodness (see Monday’s article on this). Beauty is found in the nuance of a painting found in an art museum, the unexpected transition...
View ArticleChristian Faithful Presence in the Culture
If Christians are to be “missional,” then we must take seriously that our work, as a calling from God, is kingdom work. As such, it is like leaven that is mixed into the culture (Matthew 13:33),...
View ArticleJoy’s Story: The Value and Dignity of Work
David Spickard is the President and CEO of Jobs for Life (JfL), a global non-profit organization that engages and equips the local Church to address the impact of joblessness through the dignity of...
View ArticleServing the City, Shaping the Political Community – David Kim
Our friends at the Center for Public Justice introduced the Kuyper Lecture in 1995 to promote public consideration of three important dynamics at work in today’s world: Religion as a driving force –...
View ArticleRestoring Homes to Restore a Community
Vocation and the High Calling of Construction. In this high-quality, five-minute video, Kimberly Renner explains how her vocation as the leader of a design-intensive construction company fulfills God’s...
View ArticleModels of a Civilization
We are at a moment in our nation where various ideologies as to how society should be structured are at odds. Which one should we embrace? Below are FIVE Models from which to choose. Which one do you...
View ArticleKnowing Always Means Doing
Blood:Water Mission and the Need to Do Something. Now that we know, what are we going to do? It has stopped surprising me how deeply that question is written into the ordinary rhythms of life. It is...
View ArticleHolistic Mission for the Church
Christopher Wright, in addressing the Lausanne Committee, wrote, “Holistic mission includes the whole of what God calls and sends us to do. Evangelism without social action is not holistic mission....
View ArticleSubversive for the Common Good: Seek the Welfare of the City
God, through the prophet Jeremiah, not only tells those in the Babylonian exile to live holy lives, he also gives them a calling as they live in the midst of this oppressive empire. “Seek the welfare...
View ArticleThe Gospel: Both “Social Action” and “Evangelism”
Ronald J. Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, has advocated for a more holistic vision of Christian ministry since 1973. He (along with...
View ArticleShalom is the Way it is Meant to Be
PEACE. It has the connotation in English of quiet tranquility and calm restfulness. But in my studies in the original languages of the Bible, I have discovered that the word “Peace” means a whole lot...
View ArticleThe Three Major Needs of Spiritual Formation
My doctoral mentor, Steven Garber, did his doctoral research on how people were able to sustain spiritual growth from college through their twenties. He wrote about this research in a profound popular...
View ArticleLetter to my younger self
Hi Bob, It’s me. Bob. I know! Right? Freaky that I’d write to you from the future! No, I don’t have a TARDIS for traveling through time. It’s just that the community at The High Calling decided to...
View ArticleApologetics Beyond Reason
An Emmanuel Apologetic What if we moved our apologetic away from reasoned arguments toward telling the story of the Gospel by the way we work for the common good? What if we so dramatically laid down...
View ArticleThree Steps to Get Your Work Bearings During the Pandemic
Staying at home during the Coronavirus pandemic has been disorienting. For some of us, this has caused anxiety. Raise your hand if it has manifested itself in frantic attempts to find control. Raise...
View ArticleAre You Prepared for the Accelerated Change of the 2020s? – with Tom Sine and...
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: 2020 has been an incredible year of turmoil. It is the first year of a decade that promises to have lots of...
View ArticleIgniting Christmas Hope in the Midst of Hardship – with Sam Van Eman
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: We are blessed to have Sam Van Eman on for two episodes. Here, right before Christmas, Sam shares with Bob and...
View ArticleWhy We Feel Lonely – with Eric O. Jacobsen
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: Are you experiencing loneliness? We drive to work. We drive back home from work. We watch some TV. When we have...
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