Callie Mitchell 8 Minute Read I am an architect, but I’m not. I am a missionary, but I’m not. Sound confusing? Maybe the confusion subsides when we embrace a view of vocation as separate from that of career — as something that far surpasses nine to five work hours, salaries and benefits, something that begins to describe the condition of…
Jeannie Pederson 4 Minute Read “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question most children hear at some point during their growing-up years. My plan wasn’t much, by some standards. I just wanted to be a wife, a stay-at-home mother, and by extension, a full-time homemaker. Making a home isn’t just the “career” I happened to…
Natasha Metzler 5 Minute Read There is an old saying, “A jack of all trades is a master of none,” oft quoted to describe someone who can do many things but none too well. Welcome to my life. I’ve always been a dabbler. I dabble in this, I dabble in that. Yet, no skill has ever gone very deep. I…
Elisabeth Adams 6 Minute Read Your vocation: what is it? It isn’t exactly the same as your career or job, says Jeff Goins, though it may include them. Its scope is life-long: it is the theme you will return to again and again, however many times your specific job description might change. The fact that I’ve gone from teaching English abroad…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I’m not a mom and I don’t know if I ever will be, but I cannot remember a time before I stepped (or toddled) into my role of big sister. My younger siblings are two, three, six, ten, eleven and twelve years younger than I, and came into our family from all over the world….
Rachelle Rea Cobb 4 Minute Read The night the dream-come-true news slipped into my life, I was oblivious. Looking back, I wonder at how Jesus must have chuckled, because I was on the recumbent bike watching television at the time the email arrived. I had no idea my life was about to change forever. The Wait It had been sixteen months since I…
Christy Fitzwater 4 Minute Read When my first child was born someone gave me a baby gift that stayed in the drawer for a long time.
Because I didn’t know how it was meant to be used.
It was two hour-glass-shaped pieces of flannel sewn together, with filling in the middle like a quilt, but it wasn’t large enough to be a blanket. When I showed my husband the gift he shrugged his shoulders. I stuck the thing in a drawer.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read As I look at my husband and two kids, I can see unique personality traits, passions, and spiritual gifts that God has placed within them. Sometimes it’s all too easy to fixate on the ways they are different from me. But in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul points out that God has purposefully made each of us unique. He never intended us to all be the same.
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Teri Lynne Underwood It seems every few years Christendom goes abuzz with spiritual gift inventories and tests we can take to determine where we fit into the Body. I’m not opposed to knowing your spiritual gifts. In fact, I think it can be incredibly helpful to understand where your giftedness lies and how you can…
Caroline Rose Sanders 7 Minute Read There are many questions we must ask ourselves when making a purchase: Can I afford this? Do I really need/want it? Is it of good quality? There is one question, however, that many of us forget to ask ourselves: Would this purchase be a fair-trade? “Fair Trade” is probably a term you’ve heard a few…
Jessica Telian 3 Minute Read If you ever come to visit us, and use our bathroom, you’ll notice that we have two different soap dispensers next to the sink. One contains Dr. Bronner’s lavender liquid soap, and the other, antibacterial Softsoap. A little strange to have two, but those soap dispensers actually represent a big victory for me spiritually. After…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read It happened sometime between daring being a dream and daring coming true…
I went to Costa Rica last summer. It was my first mission trip, my first international mission trip, my first flight, and my first international flight.
The End.
The End.