Category: Vocation
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The Dream
The dream made of airy reality will fade away, though faded now, and faded all the more shall be when – I – the dreamer’s gone. Oh say, oh say, what’s in your heart; let not the dream just die unborn. Oh pray, reveal what’s in your heart and let your gift behold the morn.…
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Learn to Say “No”
Sometimes you just have to say “No” to the many invitations and requests from people asking you to do things that they know you can do well. Oftentimes they mean well. They see something in you. They see that you have something significant to contribute that can be of help to others. You can be…
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We Are Called
Text: Romans 1: 1-17 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in…
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What God Does Not Call Us To
But if in anything we take more upon us than we have time well to perform it in, without robbing God of that which is due to him and our own souls, this God calls not unto, this he blesses us not in. It is more tolerable that our duties of holiness and regard to…
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Today’s Professional
The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe. He no longer understands the vocabulary of others. Nor does he comprehend the underlying motivations of others – Jacques Ellul,…
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Solitude as Vocation
It is clear to me that solitude is my vocation, not as a flight from the world but as my place in the world, because for me to find solitude is only to separate myself from all the forces that destroy me and destroy history, in order to be united with the Life and Peace…
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How to Know Your Vocation
It is only from one’s unique history of suffering that one can define accurately one’s own calling. Only from a particular history of special anguish and personal travail can one come to know how God is calling one to be present to the suffering world even as God the Son has become present to it.…
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Christian Work
Found this quote from Dorothy Sayers at Justin Taylor’s blog: The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his…
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The Reproach of Christ
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharoah’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.”…
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Servants
When we take up the role of servants, we do precisely what the powerful prefer not to do: put ourselves in a position where our power is of little use. Rather than asserting the privilege the powerful have to control their environment and avoid humbling experiences, we seek Christ in the places where we will…
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