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Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
King Jesus Christ is on a mission to bring restoration in every sphere of society and has invited His followers to join Him in this Kingdom-advancing work. Church leaders need to intentionally inspire, equip, and deploy their members to live missionally in and through their work. We do this best by showing people, practically, how to steward their vocational power in ways that advance foretastes of the coming Kingdom of shalom for our neighbors near and far.
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Vocational Stewardship In Action
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Cliff Nellis: Comb...
Cliff Nellis: Combining Law and Urban Youth Ministry by Amy Sherman and Kelly Givens Cliff Nellis, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s School of Law, became a Christian near the end of his clerkship for a federal judge in Colorado. He took some time off to bike cross-country, studying the bible with all the delight of the brand-new believer. During the trip, Nellis reports, “I started feeling called to ministry. I started thinking about whether I’d stay in the law or not.” Looking back, he sees that as a young believer, he “had this very narrow view: ministry is …
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Richard Alley: A G...
by Kelly Givens Not many children dream of being a glaciologist when they grow up, studying and interpreting ice cores and dissecting the science behind climate changes. And yet, Richard Alley, professor of geosciences at Penn State University, has clearly found his calling doing just that. Alley’s personality—sanguine, comical, musical—contrasts sharply with his vocational field—studying the often disheartening effects of human waste and excess on our planet. Heavily quoted and renown as one of the “foremost glaciologists of all time,” Alley has contributed his knowledge and research in geology, hydrology, ice physics, paleoenvironmental sciences and climate change—particularly the role of …
