Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good
    Unavailable
    Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good
    Unavailable
    Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good
    Ebook338 pages5 hours

    Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

    By Steven Garber

    5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    Foreword Review's Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Leadership Journal Best Books for Church Leaders

    Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Is it possible to know the world and still love the world?

    Of all the questions we ask about our calling, this is the most difficult. From marriages to international relations, the more we know, the harder it is to love. We become cynics or stoics, protecting our hearts from the implications of what we know. But what if the vision of vocation can be recovered—allowing us to step into the wounds of the world and for love's sake take up our responsibility for the way the world turns out?

    For decades Steve Garber has come alongside a wide range of people as they seek to make sense of the world and their lives. With him we meet leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest who want a good reason to still care about China. We also meet with many ordinary people in ordinary places who long for their lives to matter:

    • Jonathan who learned he would rather build houses than study history
    • Todd and Maria who adopted creative schedules so they could parent better and practice medicine
    • D.J. who helped Congress move into the Internet Age
    • Robin who spends her life on behalf of urban justice
    • Hans who makes hamburgers the way they are meant to be made
    • Susan who built a home business of hand-printing stationary using a letterpress
    • Santiago who works with majority-world nations in need of capital
    • George who has given years to teaching students to learn things that matter most
    • Claudius and Deirdre whose openhearted home has always been a place for people
    • Dan who loves Wyoming, the place, its people and its cows

    Vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain and still love it. Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. And in helping the world to flourish, strangely, mysteriously, we find that we flourish too. Garber offers a book for everyone everywhere—for students, for parents, for those in the arts, in the academy, in public service, in the trades and in commerce—for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Books
    Release dateJan 27, 2014
    ISBN9780830896264
    Author

    Steven Garber

    Steven Garber is professor of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, and the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture. A consultant to foundations, corporations, and schools, he is a teacher of many people in many places. His books include Visions of Vocation and The Fabric of Faithfulness, and he is a contributor to the books Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He is married to Meg. They have five grown children and several grandchildren.

    Related to Visions of Vocation

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Incurable Optimist

      Sep 11, 2019

      The Incurable Optimist
      8 min read

    • Article

      Why Wendell Berry Is Still Not Going To Buy A Computer

      Apr 18, 2019

      In 1988, Wendell Berry shocked the world by declaring that he was not going to buy a computer. Three decades later, he hasn’t looked back.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Putting Faith In Science

      Feb 5, 2021

      Putting Faith In Science
      15 min read

    • Article

      Local Minister Breaks Away From Methodist Church Over Its Support For BDS

      Jan 1, 2021

      A Christian minister has put his livelihood on the line by quitting the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) over its Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) policy towards Israel. Reverend Rowan Rennie says he would rather “sleep on the street” t

      4 min read

    • Article

      Facts Of Life

      Mar 21, 2021

      Facts Of Life
      2 min read

    • Article

      This Is Me

      Mar 26, 2019

      This Is Me
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Lost Language of Lament

      Jul 30, 2021

      The Lost Language of Lament
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Case for a Long Divorce

      Nov 9, 2022

      Some people going through breakups are reconsidering the best way to end a relationship, including how to honor their time together.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Little People Big Feelings

      Jul 27, 2020

      Little People Big Feelings
      3 min read

    • Article

      Wrapping Our Prayers Around The Immigration Crisis

      Oct 22, 2019

      Strongly held convictions about immigration crises around the world can polarize and divide people. But prayer that seeks God’s answers brings less stridency and more listening, opens the door to wise and balanced solutions, and lifts thoughts from f

      3 min read

    • Article

      Our Third Place

      Nov 6, 2019

      We all need somewhere to go. Somewhere that’s not work and somewhere that’s not home. Somewhere we can meet people — people we know and, sometimes, people we don’t. We all need a place that’s open and non-judgemental, that’s accessible and accommodat

      3 min read

    • Article

      Just About Us: We Build Our Own Future One Relationship At A Time

      Oct 15, 2020

      Vermont inclusive communities reimagining the relationship July 2020 African Americans to the Great Outdoors George Floyd was brutally killed by the police in Minneapolis on May 25th 2020. Earlier that same day, an incident took place in New Yo

      6 min read

    • Article

      Diving Deep

      May 8, 2017

      Serial immersionist TED CONOVER on the connections between anthropology and journalism; knowing when to resist digression; and the importance of writing “across the aisle.” TED CONOVER has spent his entire career delving into different cultural world

      18 min read

    • Article

      Helen Mirren

      Dec 3, 2016

      The English actor, 71, stars in Collateral Beauty (Dec. 16), a drama about a grieving advertising executive (Will Smith) who is forced to confront his loss in an unusual way.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Enduring Message Of Nonviolence Reaches New Audiences

      Feb 29, 2024

      Clarence B. Jones is preaching nonviolence.  At 93, this civil rights pioneer, who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. write his “I Have a Dream” speech, is still combating hate. But these days, instead of leading protest meetings, Mr. Jones is re

      3 min read

    Reviews for Visions of Vocation

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words