Tag: calling
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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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How To Find The Work You Love
To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be meaningful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful. – Laurence G. Boldt, How to Find the Work You Love
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Tell me, I ask …
Tell me, I ask of you, where will we get by all these labors of ours? What are we seeking for? To what purpose do we serve in office? What higher ambition can we have at court than to become friends of the emperor? In such a position what is there that is not fragile […]
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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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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 […]