Here’s a great song from Steve Curtis Chapman that gives musical expression to Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do ….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEqdDdvFXZ0 [Read more…] about Do everything – Steve Curtis Chapman
2015 Transforming Work Conference videos
Here are the?recordings of the 2015 Transforming Work Conference key note speakers:
Working theologically – what on earth am I here for? David Benson, Malyon College
All of life is for God?s glory. This includes the highs and lows of our mundane existence. This includes our everyday vocation. In the current rush to transform work, though, have we slipped into triumphalism and forgotten Christ? In this keynote address, Dave will unpack Jesus? mission in Luke 4 and 10. Centred in the kingdom of God, we are invited to join Jesus in working for shalom and salvation. This expansive theological frame is a safeguard and a springboard for all we do. In the big story of creation, fall, and redemption, we?discover what on earth we are here for. [Read more…] about 2015 Transforming Work Conference videos
Book Review: “Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission”
?Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission? by Anna France-Williams and Joy French doesn?t fall into the usual ?Motherhood? book that?s on the market.It doesn?t promise to give you the perfect formula to reach supermum status. It doesn?t give any tips and schedules on how to create the perfect balance between serving God, serving your family and kids and serving the church. Surprised? You needn?t be once you understand the heart of the message that this thought-provoking, challenging book wants you to take away.
?Rather than subscribing to the theory that mission is something we must add onto our already exhausted Christian ?To Do? list, it explores and unpacks the concept of being missional as an attitude. More of who we are, not what we do. [Read more…] about Book Review: “Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission”
Resources to go!
Click this link and download a copy of the handout that Kara Martin (Ridley Marketplace Institute) and Murray Wright (Malyon Workplace) developed for their workshop at the 2015 Transforming Work Conference.
We took the opportunity to feature our favourite resources in the following categories:
- Books
- Whole Church, Whole-Life Discipleship Programs
- Small group studies with a workplace focus
- Websites
- Video clips
- Sermons
- Songs
Competition? ?I always want to win?
?The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win you?re still a rat? ?Lily Tomlin
Introduction
Is competition God?given, and therefore fundamentally good? ?Or a result of the fall and therefore fundamentally bad, or somewhere in-between? To what extent are you motiv
ated by your competitive instincts in your workplace? Like ambition, competitiveness can be a very positive Christian quality when it channels the drive to fulfil our God-given potential to be creative, to serve, to step out in faith. It can also be very bad when it leads to self-obsession, self-aggrandizement and self-promotion. [Read more…] about Competition? ?I always want to win?
A dispenser of grace
Philip Yancey shares a story here from John Ortberg about a bus driver in San Franciso who dispenses grace in what most of us would regard as a challenging and stressful job.
Think about what a thankless task driving a bus can look like in our world: cranky passengers, engine breakdowns, traffic jams, gum on the seats.? You ask yourself, How does she have this attitude? ??Her mood is set at 2:30 a.m. when she gets down on her knees to pray for 30 minutes,? the Chronicle?states.? ??There is a lot to talk about with the Lord,? says Wilson-Allen, a member of Glad Tidings Church in Hayward.?
Resource review – Letters to the Exiles & Reframe
Dan Pryde, Associate Pastor at Life Point Mitchelton shares his thoughts on two excellent new resources – thanks Dan!
This?seven-episode?film series,?For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles, was developed from the concerning question that many Christians seem to ask, ?What is our salvation?for?? [Read more…] about Resource review – Letters to the Exiles & Reframe
God is at work – David Benson
Dave Benson?is founding director of Traverse, a PhD Candidate, and a lecturer at Malyon College.
If you were the Son of God?with thirty-three years to save the world?how would you invest your time? If it were me, I?d kick off with some spectacular show to draw attention, and then stick it to the guys in power to reclaim my kingdom. No dilly dallying, right? Out with the mundane, and in with the miraculous. If the ?good news? is simply that the Saviour paid for our sins on the cross, then I?d want to head straight to Jerusalem for the showdown, not get holed up in some sweat shop for half my life.
And this is precisely why Jesus? life is an enigma. His path meandered.