Jesus’ followers were not all called away from their occupations.
We talk with Jeff Henderson, author of What To Do Next: Taking Your Next Step When Life is Uncertain.
Could giftedness be one of the key ways to discern your calling? In this interview with the Theology of Work Project, Bill Hendricks discusses the significance of giftedness for vocation. Bill Hendricks is...
We know that more Americans are changing jobs than at any other point since records have been kept. But how are they...
We talk about common myths and half truths about calling with vocational psychologist Dr. Bryan Dik.
Have you ever felt God calling you to something unexpected and outside your comfort zone?
The uncertainty of work today may leave you anxious and asking, how can I find meaning in my work? And, can I...
Our panelists answer your questions about discerning your calling and following God's lead for your career.
With constant distraction at our fingertips, our routines around work can add up to days filled with...
Have you found your passion at work? That perfect job that excites you to jump out of...
Obeying God's call led to transformation for Edgerton Gear, a Wisconsin-based custom gear manufacturer.
How can you experience joy in your work when you're working a job that you don't like?
If you can't bear the thought of going to work one day longer, it may be time to re-examine the unique factors...
This video is part of the Global Classroom episode on Workplace Ministry. View the episode page and access the full set of related resources on the Lausanne website.
This page has links to free resources for seminary courses on vocation and calling and on the theology of work.
Church History assignments to bring work into the seminary curriculum.
This is the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology...
You've worked hard, you've landed the job that you thought you wanted but for whatever reason you're unhappy. How do you know...
How you define success can guide how you live every day and the decisions you make. So...
Sermon given at Wheaton College (IL) on Nov. 7, 2018 about the call to bring God's redemptive power into all the places...
Figure out your calling at work by answering these 5 questions (6 minute read)
If there ever really was a golden age when workers spent long years with the same company and retired with gold watches...
VMware's top boss says Colossians 3:23-24 helped him think of the work as ministry.
God’s calling is a feeling for Don Flow, CEO of Flow Companies, Inc.
Don Flow, CEO of Flow Automotive, describes how 1 Peter influenced his conversion to a biblical view of calling.
Construction contractor Kimberly Renner sees her work as a high calling.
Engage in enough small talk and someone will inevitably ask, “What do you do?” How do you feel when you hear that...
At the end of the week a factory worker looks forward to a day of leisure with his kids, thinks about how...
Whatever work you do, it matters to God. God doesn't give more points to pastors or missionaries or people who work for...
1 Peter 2:9-10 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own...
Exodus 3:7-15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have...
Text: Ephesians 6:5-9 Dominant Thought: The Lordship of Jesus Christ has enormous implications on our motives for...
Scripture Genesis 1:27-28 27 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he...
Tom Nelson outlines a sermon on why work matters.
1 John 3:16-24 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our...
Mark 1:9-11 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as...
Exodus 3:1-12 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness...
Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the...
"We are more than a restaurant - we're a home."
Sometimes it seems that we’re on the road to success. We’ve got the degree and the training. Our resumes look great. We...
We carry God’s kingdom to all kinds of workplaces, including schools. So as you go back to school, don’t be surprised if...
Bill Johnson pushes the concept of vocational stewardship to millennials through small groups.
It’s no secret: lots of people are searching for jobs right now. Some folks have lost their jobs. Others have jobs, but...
Learn more about faith and work from these resources: from introductary books to bibliographies for advanced study.
Alistair Mackenzie gives a biblical overview of what the Bible says about work.
This article, originally titled "Bridging the Marketplace Gap" by Andy Stanley comes from The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching, edited by...
All parts of the Bible can relate to life's work, if you have eyes primed to see it.
This essay was originally written as a Mockler Memo, January 2014, by David W. Gill. We believe and we say that Jesus...
What do you want? I’ve grown up in a culture that taught me all I needed to do was figure out what...
In both the marketplace and in the church, questions are being raised about the meaning of work...
Al Erisman is the Former Director of Technology at Boeing. He currently serves as the Executive-in-Residence at Seattle Pacific University, Director, Executive...
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach was educated and later taught at the London School of Economics and then became dean of the City...
Henry Kaestner is Chairman of Sovereign Capital, an investment firm he co-founded in 2011 that focuses on...
Our churches are always communicating to its daughters. Their value. Their worth. Their possibilities.
Job challenges range from gruesome to crippling. How we handle them makes a world of difference. Sam Van Eman offers three truths...
"Our vocation should be our calling. Our calling is who are we." Jeff Rogers is the founder and chairman of One Accord...
The question "what do you do?" has now become completely out of vogue.
While others climb the ladder to success, God invites us to joyfully go low.
More than ever before, humanity is in a crisis over work. People change jobs and careers ...
Allow the one who created work to use you in His redemptive plan.
Kimberly Renner discusses honoring God through her construction work, by doing good work and treating people well.
As Christians, we are called to work towards "shalom"—comprehensive flourishing—in everything we do.
As I proofread a comics page, my internal “uh-oh” sensor pinged. ...
We may be carrying something priceless without even realizing it!
I know two nurses. One finds great joy serving in a hospice and offering tender care to the dying. The other works...
Today is the final part of this mini-series responding to the question: What helps you pay attention...
Three people on the same job site have very different perspectives on their work.
"Who should I marry" is shortly followed by "What should I do with my life?"
Bob Fraley, one of the top track and field coaches in America, faced a critical career decision. After twenty-three years at Fresno State, the school was eliminating track and field. Fraley's...
God wants me to keep taking care of His place, the ground that he made me walk on. Don't you think?
What do you do if you hate the job God called you to? Sermon by Will Messenger.
"As I worked and learned Spanish from my coworkers I discovered two passions God had given me: working with my hands and...
Terry’s life was lining up. His sales team was humming. A promotion to branch manager looked likely. His kids were happy at school. He and his wife had a vital teaching ministry at...
When our core identity is determined, not by what we do for a living, but by our...
If we set aside worldly ways of thinking about work and embrace God's vision, we will be...
‘Twas the eve of my first job when all in my thoughts, ...
You are gifted for specific callings that God has placed upon your life. You are not going to be good at everything...
We don't hear the language of calling very often in common speech anymore.
My friend Jeff is a buttoned-up finance guy in his late thirties who manages a business unit for a corporate behemoth. We attend the same church, and I see him and his wife...
About once a week, I’m asked the same question. “Don’t you hate your job?” A variation on the theme is, “How can you stand your job?” Well, I admit there are some days...
By the time Jesus came to the Jordan River in order to be baptized, John the Baptist had already baptized hundreds if...
It's important to understand that in the creation narrative, before sin ever entered into the world, Adam was to tend the garden.
Ironically, Ezra himself does not appear in the book bearing his name until chapter 7.
JB Wood says you don't need to know your calling before choosing a career.
My question stumped Susan, a diligent job seeker, over coffee that morning: “What do you care about that’s larger than you?”
The other day my friend asked a rather blunt and personal question: “Do you think it is God’s will for you to...
For years I served as a teaching pastor at my church, but then left the pastoral team to pursue a calling outside the institutional church.
I recently read about a bus driver who is making a difference in this world. ...
Faith doesn't always provide us with a simple, five-step path to the job of our dreams. What it does provide us is...
Jeffrey Wright demonstrates the laws of physics for his students all year, doing crazy experiments with cinderblocks and sledgehammers, but once a...
Doug Barr of Goodwill of Southern California doesn't judge based on "What do you do?"
It seems that a sense of calling might be less a function of the kind of work you do as much as...
We know as soon as reminded, that work spins the wheels of the world. ...
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining...
Transcript Judy wanted most in life to serve the Lord! Should she quit her full-time job for full-time ministry? She earnestly asked God to show her what to do. The next week, in...
As an ordained minister, I am sometimes asked: “When were you called into the ministry?”
When I was nineteen years old, I wanted more than anything else in the world to become a published songwriter.
"All work done well and for God's glory is Christian work." – Dorothy Sayers
We have seen how God rescued his people from Egypt in order to make a covenant with them, so that they might...
After working as a parish priest for 15 years, Barbara Brown Taylor (www.barbarabrowntaylor.com) left her parish position to become a religion professor...
Are you living out your callings in your different roles in life?
In yesterday’s reflection, we focused on the amazing truth that “God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God.” Yet there’s another phrase in that thought.
I have been living on devotional snacks lately, thirty minutes here, fifteen there.
In the time of Jesus, wine was often stored in the carefully prepared skins of animals.
J. I. Packer is a Board of Governors' Professor in Theology at Regent College; Vancouver, BC. He is author of many books...
Integrity in the workplace should be an easy thing to define, right? We shouldn't steal paper clips or pencils. We shouldn't lie to our boss. We shouldn't show up late, leave before quitting...
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison graduated from law school at a time when top firms weren't hiring women. After months of fruitless job-hunting, a friend advised Kay to take her knowledge into a...
My friend Don heard two men discussing Father Mychal Judge, the New York Fire Department chaplain who died in the World Trade Center collapse. One man said, “Wrong place, wrong time!” Don jumped...
What springs to your mind when someone mentions the word "poet"? Starving artist? Irresponsible idealist? Literary egotist? Amoral rebel? All of the above? ...
Explore what the Bible says about God's calling and your work.
Calling begins with the call to follow Christ. All other callings, including the call to work and particular types of work, flow from this primary calling. The Bible has much to say about...
In the Bible, the word “call” is used most often to refer to God's initiative to bring...
God created you as a worker, and he commands you to work, even if he doesn’t mail you a specific job offer.
Although we are focusing on God’s call to work, work is only one element of life. God calls us to belong to Christ in every element of our lives. Colossians 3:17 Whatever you...
At this point, we are now able to delve into the possibility of God’s guidance to a particular task, job, career or type of work. We have seen that: Everyone is called to...
With the understanding that the ultimate image of calling in the Bible is the calling to follow Jesus, we are ready to...
Here are three major considerations for discerning God’s vocational guidance.
The first consideration is the needs of the world. The single strongest indicator of what God wants you to do is probably your awareness of what needs to get done to make the...
The second consideration is your skills and gifts. The Bible says that God gives people gifts for accomplishing the work he wants them to do, and it names some of the gifts and...
Finally, the Bible says that your truest or deepest desires are also important to God. Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm...
These three considerations — the needs of the world, your skills and gifts, and your truest desires — are guides, but they are not absolutes. For one thing, in a fallen world, you...
A call to ministry or church work is no more sacred than a call to other types of work.
How you work is at least as important to God as what job or profession you have. In every job, you have...
Got the Job, but Not the Dream. Now What? (Click Here to Read) How do you plug your heart and soul into a job that you are just not into, one that is...
Although Moses was a Hebrew, he was raised in Egypt’s royal family as the grandson of Pharaoh. His revulsion to injustice erupted...
This article has been produced by a mixture of pastors and marketplace people and homemakers. We are very aware that, even as...
Esther was a woman who thought she had no influence over her husband or over matters of importance. Yet a desperate situation...
When we open the Gospel according to Luke, we immediately meet an elderly woman named Elizabeth, the wife of a Jewish priest...
The Book of Esther begins with King Ahasuerus (known to history outside the Bible as Xerxes) throwing a lavish party to display...
The problem of pain comes when times are hard. When we are passed over for promotion or lose a job, when we...
As we have seen, God prepared Jeremiah from before his birth for the work of a prophet (Jer. 1:5) and, at the...
Let us begin, as the Book of Ezekiel does, with God’s call to Ezekiel to become a prophet. When we meet Ezekiel...
As is typical with Twelve Prophets, the Book of Jonah begins with a call from God to the prophet (Jon. 1:1-2). Unlike...
In light of Jonah’s experience, we might fear that God’s calling will lead us into calamity and...
Nearly thirty years have elapsed between chapters two and three. John the Baptist reveals Jesus’ true identity as the Son of God...
In chapters 5 through 7, we heard Jesus teaching about the kingdom of heaven coming to earth. In chapters 8 through 9, we see him enacting that kingdom through deeds of compassion and...
The Great Commission is to “make disciples,” not merely to “win converts.”
God’s full presence in the world in the person of the man Jesus is news, astonishing news.
Jesus himself comes to John to be baptized, as if to declare that he is the one John has been proclaiming.
The entire gospel is the story of the kingdom of God coming from heaven into every square inch of the universe.
For these disciples to follow Jesus, they have to allow their identity, status, and worth to be determined in relation to Jesus rather than to their occupation and possessions.
In addition to the accounts of the calling of specific disciples, there is also the account of the appointing of the apostles...
Twice Jesus goes to people’s workplaces to call them to follow him. The first is when Jesus gets some fishermen to interrupt...
The parable of the ten minas (“pounds” in the NRSV translation) is set in the workplace of high finance. A rich —...
The book of Acts begins with a post-resurrection interaction between Jesus and his disciples. Jesus teaches his disciples about “the kingdom of...
Full Christianity: Doing, Thinking, and Being (Click Here to Read) In this daily reflection fromThe High Calling, Mark Roberts considers how the...
In the opening line of his letter, Peter addresses his readers as “exiles . . . who have been chosen” (1 Pet...
Although written under greatly different circumstances than James,[1] 1 John also challenges the notion that faith can live without “works,” that is, acts of obedience toward God. In chapter 2, John states that...
Use this book and the questions at the end of each chapter to spark discussion about calling.
I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us . . . have jobs that...
One of the fundamental desires we humans have is the desire for significance. We want – we need – our lives to count for something. This is a longing that increases as we...
The book of Esther in the Bible provides a fascinating true-life contrast to Warren Schmidt.
God made all of us for a purpose. That’s why there is a yearning in our hearts to live significantly.
Erik Erikson wrote that the major crisis of adolescence is the forging of an identity. This identity can be expressed as the...
Careerism versus Calling When most of us think about the “working week” we have been conditioned to think in terms of careers and occupations. Our work as doctors, teachers, mechanics, retail assistants, human...
Because of our involvement with numerous Christian organizations and churches, we both have had occasion over the years to see their application...
We all know how important words are. They communicate more than just actions and ideas. Many words encapsulate and reinforce worldviews –...
Remember our characters from the beginning of the book? In writing about them we have altered names and some of the details...
Alistair’s story In the first chapter of this book we quoted Calvin Redekop, a Canadian Mennonite, who wrote: “The truth is that the average Christian spends less than 2 percent of his or...
The English word vocation comes from the Latin vocatio, which means “calling”; they are the same thing, though this is not obvious to the people who use these words.
A career is an occupation for which people train and in which people expect to earn their living for most of their working years.
Biblical insight and practical tips for exploring your calling.
In this video devotional you'll learn that answering God's call is bigger than any one job.
There are a wide range of areas that a lawyer can choose to practise. The work that is done in those different areas often benefit different types of people.
How can a church integrate workplace issues into a normal structure of weekly preaching and small groups? This integrated series can serve as a model. The Ruth series, piloted by Reservoir Church in...
This is the sixth sermon in the series: “Inspired: The Whole of Life with God in the Picture.” It was delivered by...
This content is part of the Ruth and Parables curriculum, an 11-week integrated sermon and small group series on faith and work...
This is the eighth sermon in the series: “Inspired: The Whole of Life with God in the...
How can a church integrate workplace issues into a normal structure of weekly preaching and small groups? This integrated series can serve as a model. The Ruth & Parables series, piloted by Reservoir...
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