Category: Gospel and Culture

Busyness often gets in the way of contentment. Conflict becomes inconvenient. People are reduced to obstacles. Efficiency replaces love as the highest virtue.

Are you driven by work, family, success? Are you more concerned with managing conflict than being sanctified by conflict? How can you begin to care less about results of vocation and more about discipleship through vocation? If we want to imitate Christ, periods of reflection and prayer will be important. Imagine if we became so obsessed with God’s agenda in our conflicts, challenges, and vocations that others appreciate our Christlikeness more than our “work.”

What if we started living backwards, with the wisdom of an 80 year old? I am willing to bet we would live more slowly. That’s what this brief article is about I recently wrote for The High Callling.

Would you take a second to share some ways you are serving your city? Small and big are important. Helping a neighbor to serving on city committees. Go!

I think we should work for a nuclear free city, a nuclear free world. Nuclear arms are one of the greatest threats to human existence. All citizens should be concerned about their proliferation. If you are a conservative that advocates for a culture of life, you should be especially concerned. If you are a Christian, you should be even more concerned because you believe humans are made in the image of God.

How can you work for a nuclear free city and world? Here’s how:

• Join the Two Futures Project – “a movement of  American Christians for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. We believe that we face two futures and one choice: a world without nuclear weapons or a world ruined by them.”
• Listen to Working for a Nuclear Free City – a band that sounds a bit like Sinking in Venice, Pete Bjorn, that has nothing to do with the Two Futures Project but sound really cool.