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A Journey Worth Taking: Endorsements: Finding Your Purpose in This World by Charlie Drew is getting some great recommendations. Drew explores purposeful living in work, relationships, culture and more, all within the Creation-Fall-Redemption-Consummation framework. A needed and substantive task! Writing along these lines, Drew addresses four main ideas:

• Human life comes with a built-in purpose
• Something goes wrong with how we express our purpose.
• What gets ugly and destructive can be remade beautiful and right.
• What we do matters, because we are going somewhere.

Recommendations
“Charles Drew has given us a great book to give away–especially to those who want a purpose-driven life and want to dig more deeply into the mysteries of that purpose. It is at once clear, personal, culturally up-to-date, and theologically rich– a perfect combination. Drew takes us a step beyond the literature that is presently available on the subject. Highly recommended.” – Dr. Timothy Keller, Senior Minister, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York.

This book bids to teach you a new “language” for thinking about your life and identity . . . This is a book to take slowly, so it sinks in. – David A. Powlison, Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary

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I think of thy glory and my vileness
thy majesty and my meanness
thy beauty and my deformity
thy purity and my filth
thy righteousness and my iniquity.
Thou has loved me everlastingly, unchangeably…

May I never dally with the world and its allurements,
but walk by thy side,
listen to thy voice,
be clothed with thy graces,
and adorned with thy righteousness.

Excerpted from “Christ is All,” in The Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan prayers & devotions