To Bless Our Callings

Author : Laura Kelly Fanucci
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532615795

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To Bless Our Callings by Laura Kelly Fanucci Pdf

To Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation is an ecumenical collection that supports the callings of everyone within the Christian community. This valuable resource of over two hundred prayers, blessings, poems, and sacred songs from diverse Christian traditions speaks to the heart of vocation's richness. -Part I (Ages and Stages) gathers prayers for children, teens, young adults, and adults in mid-life, later, and older adulthood. -Part II (Work and Profession) offers blessings for traditional professions and overlooked occupations--from nurses to truck drivers, janitors to lawyers, salespeople to stay-at-home parents. -Part III (A Year of Blessing) highlights times to preach and pray about vocation throughout the church year and cultural calendar. Drawing from research with hundreds of Christians in congregations across the country about their sense of God's call in their lives, the book fills the gap between Christianity's rich theologies of vocation and people's pastoral needs in living out their callings. To Bless Our Callings is a perfect resource for catechists, musicians, worship leaders, spiritual directors, retreat leaders, campus ministers, and chaplains.

Author : Douglas J. Schuurman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802801374

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Vocation by Douglas J. Schuurman Pdf

The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Douglas Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that. Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.

Author : John O'Donohue
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385525640

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To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue Pdf

From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. O’Donohue looks at life’s thresholds—getting married, having children, starting a new job—and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory. Most profoundly, however, O’Donohue explains “blessing” as a way of life, as a lens through which the whole world is transformed. O’Donohue awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through periods of change.

Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467446822

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The Stories We Live by Kathleen A. Cahalan Pdf

"Christian vocation," says Kathleen Cahalan, "is about connecting our stories with God's story." In The Stories We Live Cahalan rejuvenates and transforms vocation from a static concept to a living, dynamic reality. Incorporating biblical texts, her own experience, and the personal stories of others, Cahalan discusses how each of us is called by God, to follow, as we are, from grief, for service, in suffering, through others, within God. Readers of this book will discover an exciting new vocabulary of vocation and find a fresh vision for God's calling in their lives.

Author : Susan J. Tweit
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647420376

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Bless the Birds by Susan J. Tweit Pdf

Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a “good life” when Richard saw thousands of birds one day—harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip. As Susan and Richard navigate the unfamiliar territory of brain cancer treatment and learn a whole new vocabulary—craniotomies, adjuvant chemotherapy, and brain geography—they also develop new routines for a mindful existence, relying on each other and their connection to nature, including the real birds Richard enjoys watching. Their determination to walk hand in hand, with open hearts, results in profound and difficult adjustments in their roles. Bless the Birds is not a sad story. It is both prayer and love song, a guide to how to thrive in a world where all we hold dear seems to be eroding, whether simple civility and respect, our health and safety, or the Earth itself. It’s an exploration of living with love in a time of dying—whether personal or global—with humor, unflinching courage, and grace. And it is an invitation to choose to live in light of what we love, rather than what we fear.

Author : Laura Kelly Fanucci
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814637937

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Everyday Sacrament by Laura Kelly Fanucci Pdf

In Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting Laura Kelly Fanucci sees the Catholic sacraments through the smudged and sticky lens of life with little ones. From dinnertime chaos to bath-time giggles to never-ending loads of laundry, Laura stumbles into the surprising truth of what the seven sacraments really mean: that God is present always, even in the messes of motherhood. A spiritual memoir of parenting’s early years and a sacramental theology rooted in family life, Everyday Sacrament offers an honest, humorous, and hopeful look at ordinary moments as full of grace.

Author : Gordon T. Smith
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514009383

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Courage and Calling by Gordon T. Smith Pdf

You have a calling. First, God calls us all to know and love him. Second, for each individual there is a specific call—a defining purpose or mission, with implications for all of life. In this classic book on vocation, Gordon Smith invites you to discover your calling by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him. Courage and Calling has helped thousands of readers explore questions such as these: What is my calling? How do I live it out in the midst of difficult relationships or moral challenges? Will my vocation change as I enter a new stage of life? With competing needs and demands, how can I craft a balanced way of living? Smith explores how to pursue excellence in all kinds of work and how to continue growing throughout a lifetime. He also considers four examples of particular callings: business, the arts, education, and religious leadership. This third edition includes a new chapter that explores how a church community can be a dynamic venue for discerning vocation. Church leaders can help sustain a conversation about vocation, work, and career, and celebrate the diverse ways in which God is calling people. From students exploring careers to elders leaving a legacy, this book provides rich insight for all who long to courageously follow God's call.

Author : Amy L. Sherman
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869558

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Kingdom Calling by Amy L. Sherman Pdf

Christianity Today Book Award winner Imagine the scenarios: a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business and seeing countless former inmates turn their lives around a high-school principal graduates 20 percent more students than the previous year, and the school's average scores go up by a similar percentage Now imagine a parade in the streets for each event. That's the vision of Proverbs 11:10, in which the tsaddiqim—the people who see everything they have as gifts from God to be stewarded for his purposes—pursue their vocation with an eye to the greater good. Amy Sherman, director of the Center on Faith in Communities and scholar of vocational stewardship, uses the tsaddiqim as a springboard to explore how, through our faith-formed calling, we announce the kingdom of God to our everyday world. But cultural trends toward privatism and materialism threaten to dis-integrate our faith and our work. And the church, in ways large and small, has itself capitulated to those trends, while simultaneously elevating the "special calling" of professional ministry and neglecting the vocational formation of laypeople. In the process, we have, in ways large and small, subverted our kingdom mandate. God is on the move, and he calls each of us, from our various halls of power and privilege, to follow him. Here is your chance, keeping this kingdom calling in view, to steward your faith and work toward righteousness. In so doing, you will bless the world, and as you flourish, the world will celebrate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : International broadcasting
ISBN : UCAL:C2605004

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London Calling by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan,Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467447867

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Calling All Years Good by Kathleen A. Cahalan,Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

A uniquely comprehensive discussion of vocation from infancy to old age Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer's patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating a life of faith in response to God's calling. This book addresses that gap by showing how vocation emerges and evolves over the course of an entire lifetime. The authors cover six of life's distinct seasons, weaving together personal narrative, developmental theory, case studies, and spiritual practices. Calling All Years Good grounds the discussion of vocation in concrete realities and builds a cohesive framework for understanding calling throughout all of life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Christian life
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6KPK

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The Christian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1KFI

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The Gospel Call, Part Two by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Samuel Exell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00299324

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The Biblical Illustrator; Or, Anecdotes, Similes Emblems, Illustrations by Joseph Samuel Exell Pdf

Author : Cahalan & Schuurman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Vocation
ISBN : 9780802873675

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Calling in Today's World by Cahalan & Schuurman Pdf

The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation?In this book contributors with exper

Author : Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433516085

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God at Work by Gene Edward Veith Jr. Pdf

When you understand it properly, the doctrine of vocation—"doing everything for God's glory"—is not a platitude or an outdated notion. This principle that we vaguely apply to our lives and our work is actually the key to Christian ethics, to influencing our culture for Christ, and to infusing our ordinary, everyday lives with the presence of God. For when we realize that the "mundane" activities that consume most of our time are "God's hiding places," our perspective changes. Culture expert Gene Veith unpacks the biblical, Reformation teaching about the doctrine of vocation, emphasizing not what we should specifically do with our time or what careers we are called to, but what God does in and through our callings—even within the home. In each task He has given us—in our workplaces and families, our churches and society—God Himself is at work. Veith guides you to discover God's purpose and calling in those seemingly ordinary areas by providing you with a spiritual framework for thinking about such issues and for acting upon them with a changed perspective.