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    Your Kingdom Calling: 3 Keys to Discovering Your Calling and Purpose in the Kingdom of God
    Your Kingdom Calling: 3 Keys to Discovering Your Calling and Purpose in the Kingdom of God
    Your Kingdom Calling: 3 Keys to Discovering Your Calling and Purpose in the Kingdom of God
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    Your Kingdom Calling: 3 Keys to Discovering Your Calling and Purpose in the Kingdom of God

    By Rachel Starr Thomson

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    Would it change your life if you knew ...

    • Why you are here—and why you are the way you are.
    • Why your life matters—and why no part of you is an accident.
    • Your role in the work that God is doing in the world 

    Here is the truth:

    1. You are not your own designer
    2. God designed your calling right into you in the form of gifts or "talents" that he's given you
    3. Using these talents is simple—it's a matter of manifesting the kingdom of God by manifesting God's will and character through your gifts.

    Few areas in the Christian life carry more baggage and shame than that of "calling." Most of us feel like we're missing it--and that deep down, we're a disappointment to God.

     

    But Scripture contains powerful keys to unlock this trap of shame and release every Christian into their unique purpose, calling, and place in the kingdom of God.

    In this short, easy-to-read ebook, author and speaker Rachel Starr Thomson takes you on a journey of discovery: to find your purpose and calling in the kingdom of God and learn to walk with clarity, confidence, and joy in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle Dozen Press
    Release dateNov 3, 2017
    ISBN9781386533788
    Your Kingdom Calling: 3 Keys to Discovering Your Calling and Purpose in the Kingdom of God
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    Rachel Starr Thomson

    Rachel Starr Thomson is in love with Jesus and convinced the gospel will change the world. Rachel is a woman of many talents and even more interests: she’s a writer, editor, indie publisher, singer, speaker, Bible study teacher, and world traveler. The author of the Seventh World Trilogy, The Oneness Cycle, and many other books, she also tours North America and other parts of the world as a speaker and spoken-word artist with 1:11 Ministries. Adventures in the Kingdom launched in 2015 as a way to bring together Rachel’s explorations, in fiction and nonfiction, of what it means to live all of life in the kingdom of God. Rachel lives in the beautiful Niagara Region of southern Ontario, just down the river from the Falls. She drinks far too much coffee and tea, daydreams of visiting Florida all winter, and hikes the Bruce Trail when she gets a few minutes. A homeschool graduate from a highly creative and entrepreneurial family, she believes we’d all be much better off if we pitched our television sets out the nearest window. LIFE AND WORK (BRIEFLY) Rachel began writing on scrap paper sometime around grade 1. Her stories revolved around jungle animals and sometimes pirates (they were actual rats . . . she doesn’t remember if the pun was intended). Back then she also illustrated her own work, a habit she left behind with the scrap paper. Rachel’s first novel, a humorous romp called Theodore Pharris Saves the Universe, was written when she was 13, followed within a year by the more serious adventure story Reap the Whirlwind. Around that time, she had a life-changing encounter with God. The next several years were spent getting to know God, developing a new love for the Scriptures, and discovering a passion for ministry through working with a local ministry with international reach, Sommer Haven Ranch International. Although Rachel was raised in a strong Christian home, where discipleship was as much a part of homeschooling as academics, these years were pivotal in making her faith her own. At age 17, Rachel started writing again, this time penning the essays that became Letters to a Samuel Generation and Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord’s Prayer. In 2001, Rachel returned to fiction, writing what would become her bestselling novel and then a bestselling series–Worlds Unseen, book 1 of The Seventh World Trilogy. A classic fantasy adventure marked by Rachel’s lyrical style, Worlds Unseen encapsulates much of what makes Rachel’s writing unique: fantasy settings with one foot in the real world; adventure stories that explore depths of spiritual truth; and a knack for opening readers’ eyes anew to the beauty of their own world–and of themselves. In 2003, Rachel began freelance editing, a side job that soon blossomed into a full-time career. Four years later, in 2007, she co-founded Soli Deo Gloria Ballet with Carolyn Currey, an arts ministry that in 2015 would be renamed as 1:11 Ministries. To a team of dancers and singers, Rachel brought the power of words, writing and delivering original narrations, spoken-word poetry, and songs for over a dozen productions. The team has ministered coast-to-coast in Canada as well as in the United States and internationally. Rachel began publishing her own work under the auspices of Little Dozen Press in 2007, but it was in 2011, with the e-book revolution in full swing, that writing became a true priority again. Since that time Rachel has published many of her older never-published titles and written two new fiction series, The Oneness Cycle and The Prophet Trilogy. Over 30 of Rachel’s novels, short stories, and nonfiction works are now available in digital editions. Many are available in paperback as well, with more released regularly. The God she fell in love with as a teenager has remained the focus of Rachel’s life, work, and speaking.

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      Your Kingdom Calling - Rachel Starr Thomson

      The Question: Why Are You Here?

      Very few ideas in life grip us more than our need for purpose. Why are we here? Do our lives matter? Why do they matter? Who are we?

      As Christians, the intensity of these questions gets turned up, not down. We believe in a Creator with a purpose. We believe in a bigger story—that life is not just meaningless chance. We know God is doing something in the world, and most of us know we’re supposed to have a role in it.

      But what?

      While people in the world might talk about destiny or fate, Christians tend to talk about calling.

      It’s a good word, because it indicates that whatever our purpose is, it comes from Someone outside of us. Fulfilling our purpose is about answering when God calls.

      (Incidentally, the word vocation, which many people these days associate with working a job, has the same meaning. It comes from the Latin vocare, to call.)

      But let’s be honest: the idea of calling also carries a lot of baggage. For many, it creates feelings of guilt, pressure, or being less-than. We wonder why God hasn’t told us what our calling is. We wonder if we’re supposed to have a vision or be struck by lightning. We wonder if we’re missing our calling by working a job, or we assume that any real calling would involve ministry or the mission field. We can become paralyzed by fear and uncertainty.

      On the flipside, we might just dismiss the idea of individual calling altogether. When I first started talking about this concept, I had people tell me it was nonsense (I think the word used was hogwash). All Christians are called to spread the gospel, and that’s the end of that.

      In case we haven’t met before, I’m Rachel Starr Thomson, and I’m a writer and speaker whose primary topic is the kingdom of God. I’ve had the incredible privilege of helping tens of thousands of people around the world, old and young, to better understand who they are and who God is. As a speaker with 1:11 Ministries and through my blog and books, this is always my goal: to get people out of the narrow view we so often have of church, the gospel, and relationship with God, and help them see the bigger picture Scripture offers—a kingdom picture where we all have a role, and we all matter deeply.

      I’ve been on my own journey when it comes to calling—and I’ll tell more of that story in a little bit. For now, suffice it to say that I believe the Bible does teach that all believers have an individual purpose and calling, and that we can know what it is—without all the baggage of guilt,

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