Letter #5: To a Friend Who Is Preparing for Change
Because we have a God who, in Christ, embraced the cost of loving us with an endless love, we can also surrender our lives before him and pray “Your Kingdom Come,” trusting that this Kingdom comes with the same endless and unfailing love, subverting and renewing everything in its way.
Letter #4: To A Younger Friend About Retirement
Like many people who arrive at retirement ill-prepared, I wish I had started following Jesus earlier. I desire better for you. So why not start your full retirement planning now? Step one is to make sure you are connected to Jesus and living his way as best you can today.
Letter #3: To a Friend who Isn’t Seeing Success in their Work
While so many professional, economic, and social factors remain beyond your control, God is inviting you to ordinary faithfulness within your realm of control – and that is not nothing.
Letter #2: To a Friend Who Feels Their Current Work Setting is a Distraction
I don’t know how God is going to use your current setting to get you to the next thing. But I want to remind you that our God wastes nothing!
Letters to a Friend
To a friend who is frustrated at work for reasons beyond their control: Our God is inexplicably near to you in this frustration because Christ himself was there: subject to the plans of others, prey to agendas aimed against flourishing, victim of the greatest force beyond our control.
Work ≠ Worth
God in His mercy has continually lifted my eyes from my inbox to remind me that all “work” matters and has re-shaped my priorities in the ways necessary to truly know, love, and serve Him.
Weddings and Treasures
What does it look like to store up treasures in heaven if people are the treasure? From a number of lessons learned through weddings, Josh Suddath show us how Jesus invites us to make people our treasure and watch our hearts grow as we send our treasures “on ahead”.
Citizen & Consumer: The Language of Belonging
As Americans, we are referred to as consumers more often than we are citizens. What does such a shift say about us as a society? Matt Busby offers 3 small steps we can take to begin living more as citizens and stewards of the city we call home.
Serving the City Across Vocations: An Interview with Chris Sands
Chris Sands, Executive Director of Community Safety and Gun Violence Prevention for the City of Chattanooga, shares how his passion for seeing our community thrive persists across vocations, from full-time pastor to full-time government work.
Reshaping My View of Work: A Reflection on God’s Faithfulness in Job Transition
Mel Pipkin shares an honest reflection on what she learned during a recent career transition and how God worked through curiosity, community, and change.
Shaped by a Kingdom Climate
What might it mean for us in 2024 to situate our stories into the climate of the Kingdom of God? In this post, Ralston suggests three ways we might align ourselves with the Kingdom Climate thought attention to the ordinary, mercy toward the margins, and a confident end to the story in Christ.
God’s Presence in our Work: An Interview with Russ Gehrlein
In the final interview of our series, Russ Gehrlein shares how his faith informs every decision, career change, and hardship through three foundational principles of faith and work.
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