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The Work and Calling Shelf - Faith for Monday Morning
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items Most of life is spent at work, and most discipleship books pretend otherwise. This shelf is the correction: a theology of work, the meaning of calling, and the daily practice of doing a job as worship.
Sections
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A Theology of Work
Calling, Business and the Creative Life
The Daily Practice
A Theology of Work
The foundations: Keller, Guinness, Nelson, and Hardy on why work matters to God.
Tim Keller's Every Good Endeavor is the modern foundation - work as God's own design, every honest job a calling, and the gospel as the thing that keeps work from becoming an idol. The faith-and-work book to start with.
Every Good Endeavour : Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
Os Guinness's The Call is the classic on calling itself - the summons of God over a whole life, against a culture of drifting resumes. Twenty short chapters that read like a wise friend refusing to hurry.
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose for Your Life, (Paperback)
Tom Nelson's Work Matters is the pastor's brief for Monday - connecting Sunday worship to weekday work from Genesis to the new creation. The short, giftable version of this whole shelf.
Work Matters
Lee Hardy's Fabric of This World is the scholarly spine of the shelf - how the Christian view of work was built, from the Reformation's workshops onward. For readers who want the footnotes under the convictions.
The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work, (Paperback)
Calling, Business and the Creative Life
Sherman's kingdom economics, Comer on rest, Raynor for makers, Grudem for business owners.
Amy Sherman's Kingdom Calling studies real people stewarding their vocational power for their neighbors' good - TS Eliot's line about the life of significant soil, lived out in offices and trades. The case-study book of the shelf.
Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good, (Paperback)
John Mark Comer's Garden City is the lyrical one - work, rest, and the long view of eternity, written for millennials who think their jobs are either everything or nothing. The Sabbath half of the calling conversation.
Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human., (Hardcover)
Jordan Raynor's Called to Create is written for entrepreneurs, artists, and makers - God the Creator as the warrant for building things that did not exist yesterday. The shelf's gift for anyone starting a business or a studio.
Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk, (Paperback)
Wayne Grudem's Business for the Glory of God is the short systematic case that profit, hiring, competition, and money itself can all be good - ninety-six pages, every one of them argued from Scripture. The owner's manual in pamphlet form.
Business for the Glory of God: The Bible's Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business, (Paperback)
The Daily Practice
Time, joy, and a long vision: Raynor's rhythms, Bakke's workplace, Garber's vocation.
Redeeming Your Time takes the theology down to the calendar - seven time-management practices drawn from the life of Jesus, for people whose inboxes preach hurry. The practice book for this shelf's convictions.
Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive, (Paperback)
Dennis Bakke's Joy at Work is the memoir of building AES, an energy company run on biblical principles of shared decision-making - and what it cost him to keep it that way. The story that proves the shelf is not just theory.
Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job, (Hardcover)
Steven Garber's Visions of Vocation asks what it means to know the world's sorrow and still love it for a living - vocation as seeing clearly and staying. The reflective close of the shelf, for the long obedience.
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, (Paperback)