Illustrations About Calling

Accepting your Calling

The movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves (directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Paramount Pictures, 2023) centers on a quest to retrieve a relic.

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Father-Son-Tradeskills

The Father

The process of God empowering us as he calls us is like a father helping his young son learn a trade skill, like carpentry. The

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prison-sunshine

Set Free

Prison is a place a lot of us may feel reluctant to go. But in prison there are many people yearning to be set free,

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Cicely Saunders

Cicely Saunders, medical director of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, “founded the first modern hospice and, more than anybody else, was responsible for establishing the

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Career Changes

Find someone in the congregation who has made difficult career changes based on what God has asked them to do. Other than those who are

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A Life of Meaning

A Life of Meaning

The idea that we need to live a life that matters can be overwhelming, especially when we’re in our late teens and early twenties. The

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Finding Your Calling Sermon Illustration

Waiting For Job Charming

There’s a danger in trying to make a calling—and the exercise of the gifts associated with it—something more exciting, or just sensationalizing it. But Bethany

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Following Jesus Sermon Illustration

You Follow Me

As a child did you ever try and deflect responsibility from yourself to another by asking, “What about So-and-so?” Do your children ever do that

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Marco Polo

Sometimes finding God’s calling/vocation on your life feels like a giant game of hide and seek, in which you constantly look in all the wrong

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Imposter Syndrome

Have you ever heard of “imposter syndrome”? It’s the persistent fear of being secretly incompetent or inadequate for your job. A lot of us fear

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Mixed Messages

On one episode of “The Calling,” a Christianity Today podcast, host Richard Clark interviewed pastor Tommy “Urban D” Kyllonen about his ministry in the inner-city.

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Is God Your God?

“What you think about in your private time is what you worship.”- Pastor Timothy Keller. Jesus calls for us to make time to pray in

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