Salt & Light
Metaphors of salt/light and the city on a hill press us to consider the ways we are different from the kingdom of the world, helping
Metaphors of salt/light and the city on a hill press us to consider the ways we are different from the kingdom of the world, helping
During the opening ceremony of the Olympics, famous athletes and participants in lesser-known events represent their country together, walking into the stadium at the same
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.
In the 1980s, there was a popular TV show called MacGyver. The title character was a genius who could seemingly do anything with nothing (A
Sometimes valor in life comes from the most unexpected places—such as the story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who chose to serve in the
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
Before 1930, Joseph Babalola was a young road builder in Nigeria. Then the Holy Spirit came over him. He found himself unable to sleep for
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,
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
The church is a place where grace must abound if we want to live in true unity. It should be a place where people feel
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
Titus Coan (1835–81), a New England–trained educator and physician, used his knowledge of both fields to work as a missionary on the island of Hawaii,
In the Nine Inch Nails song “Every Day Is Exactly the Same,” Trent Reznor describes his struggle of life, saying, “I believe I can see
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
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
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
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
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
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.
The 2016 Southern Baptist Convention was historic for many reasons. One in particular revolved around the SBC presidential election.