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Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Missio on Joseph: Which Dream to Pick

Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read

Dreams are odd things. We sleep away about a third of our lives, resting our bodies and letting our brains piece together and process all that has happened during the day. Beyond that, science has no compelling answer for why we dream. But God has the power to take that mystery and use it to...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Strife: Unnecessary Generosity, Part 2

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 2 min read

In Genesis 13, even though the promise of the land was to Abram, he allowed Lot to choose the best part of the land, showing uncommon and unnecessary generosity. And Abram lived less well because of this choice. Lot took the fertile and well-watered land of the Jordan valley, and Abram took the steeper, more...

Culture • Current Conversations

Missio on Strife: Federalist No. 10 and Genesis 13

Thomas Kent | 4 min read

“Is not the whole land before you?” In Congress, a culture of political strife clouds the atmosphere as spiteful statements daily crackle off flaming tongues. Congress is a combat zone where politicians throw deadly verbal grenades, launch legislative bazookas seeking to destroy the foundations of the other party’s achievements, and dig deep filibustering trenches in order...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Redeeming Vocation: Shutting Down “Underground Economies”

Luke Bobo | 3 min read

Although the word, ‘covenant,’ is not spoken in Genesis 1-2, all the elements of a covenant are present – showing that God entered into a covenantal relationship with Adam and Eve. It was a covenant that God initiated. In response to this act of divine grace, Adam and Eve were to use their vocations, their...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

“Let’s Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start”

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read

“Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” Julie Andrews sang Rodgers and Hammerstein’s famous line in The Sound of Music. And that’s good advice. Genesis 1 and 2 bear a disproportionate influence on our understanding of our world because they show us the way God made it – before human...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

A Meditation on Excess Productivity: Great Gifts, Stewarded Badly

Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read

Genesis 3: 14-20 describes the curse that befalls creation after Adam and Eve have disobeyed God in the garden. We then hear the stories of their descendants and the story of the Flood before we end up at the tower of Babel in the eleventh chapter. Very quickly, these stories set up the narrative of...

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