The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Written by Os Guinness
Narrated by Os Guinness
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Bestselling author Os Guinness dives deeper in this teaching lecture produced out of Park Cities Presbyterian church in Dallas, Texas. continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose.
Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my concepts of success?
According to Guinness, "No idea short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment."
Narrated by Os Guinness.
Os Guinness
Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) was born in China and educated in England. He is the author or editor of thirty-five books, including The Call, Renaissance, Fool's Talk, Carpe Diem Redeemed, and Last Call for Liberty. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the EastWest Institute. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide. A passionate advocate of freedom of religion and conscience for people of all faiths and none, he was the lead drafter for both the Williamsburg Charter and the Global Charter of Conscience. He lives with his wife, Jenny, in the Washington, DC, area.
More audiobooks from Os Guinness
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose For Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rising to the Call: Discovering the Ultimate Purpose of Your Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to The Call
Related audiobooks
Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SoulTsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hope of Nations: Standing Strong in a Post-Truth, Post-Christian World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalogue Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Take Heart: Christian Courage in the Age of Unbelief Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Universe Next Door, Sixth Edition: A Basic Worldview Catalog Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Will of God as a Way of Life: How to Make Every Decision with Peace and Confidence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hole in Our Gospel: The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Divine Conspiracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordering Your Private World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life with a Capital L: Embracing Your God-Given Humanity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eyes to See: Recognizing God's Common Grace in an Unsettled World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mid-Course Correction: Re-Ordering Your Private World for the Second Half of Life Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Truth about Us: How We Fool Ourselves and How God Loves Us Anyway Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic's Challenges to Christianity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Personal Growth For You
The 48 Laws of Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paris: The Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary: Atomic Habits by James Clear: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Highly Sensitive Person Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search For Meaning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Call
112 ratings5 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book was designed to be read "chapter a day." I found that this approach worked well because some ideas seemed redundant. Also, I read the book during my first summer of seminary. The book doesn't shape your vision so much as it encourages you to follow your calling and submit your will to the will of God. I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to understand their purpose or thinking about changing their occupation.
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved the way this is presented with the Q&A from the audience. It is a great summation of his book The Call.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Engaging, even prophetic, set of 3 hour-long lectures delivered by Guinness himself recently at a church in Dallas distilling the major points, proofs, and stories in the book, accompanied by Q&A.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I think the reason I didn't like it was that it was different than my expectations. Based on the blurb I'd read from CMDA, I thought this would be a book to help a person discover what or where their calling was. The introductory chapters only touched on this subject if they addressed it at all and I gave up a few chapters in because the book didn't seem to be helping me answer the questions that I had.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be read more than once by anyone who is in or aspires to be on mission for the Lord, whether in a local church, or as a missionary.