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Title: Visions of Vocation
Subtitle: Common Grace for the Common Good
Author: Steven Garber
Narrator: David Cochran Heath
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-15
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
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. Filled with stories of global leaders and ordinary people, Steven Garber's book is for everyone who wants to discover the virtue of vocation.
Members Reviews:
Vocation and the Common Good reviewed by Bill Pence of CoramDeotheBlog.com
Steven Garber was the featured speaker at my Covenant Seminary graduation in May, 2014. Not long afterwards, my wife and I read and discussed this book. It is best read slowly, as he weaves in stories of the band Jars of Clay, Jena Lee Nardella, Wendell Berry, U2, John Le Carre, J.I. Packer, and many others, books and films in this wonderful book. Reading it had the feel of having a conversation with him in a coffee shop or living room.
Garber is the principal of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. They see that vocation is integral, not incidental, to the mission Dei. He writes that this book invites the reader to âcome and seeâ that this vision of vocation is being lived out by men and women who are committed to a faith that shapes vocation that shapes culture.
He writes that there is not a more difficult task that human beings face than to know the world and still love it. A recurring question that he asks throughout the book is: âKnowing what I know, what will I doâ? He indicates that in thousands of important and different ways, each story is formed by asking and answering that question.
Among the other penetrating questions he asks in the book are:
â How does one learn to see with the eyes of the heart, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world is and isnât?
â Can we know the world and still love it?
I enjoyed his profiles of people who chose to love with honesty and integrity. He writes that those people âsee themselves as implicated in the way the world is and ought to be. They see themselves as having vocations that call them into life, into the world â into a way of knowing that implicates them, for loves sake.â He writes that they are people who have vocations in imitation of the vocation of God knowing the worst about the world, and still loving it. They learn to live in the tension of life, living with what is and longing for what will be for the sake of the world. He writes that they become âhints of hopeâ.
He shares his belief that the most important question is âWhat do we love?â He states that what we believe and how we live is formed by the way we answer that question.
This is a rich book. Read it slowly, and ponder what Garber writes. It will be time well spent.
Companion for the Vocational Journey
I wrote this endorsement for Visions of Vocation prior to the publication of the book in 2014. This book is even more important today as we see so much lostness in our world and a deep hunger for meaning in our lives. Its sound theology and rich, tender story telling draws us in and gives us hope.
"Visions of Vocation calls its readers to make a commitment to a journey, one of calling and courage that will challenge not just your mind but also your heart and your soul.
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Title: Visions of Vocation
Subtitle: Common Grace for the Common Good
Author: Steven Garber
Narrator: David Cochran Heath
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-15
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
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. Filled with stories of global leaders and ordinary people, Steven Garber's book is for everyone who wants to discover the virtue of vocation.
Members Reviews:
Vocation and the Common Good reviewed by Bill Pence of CoramDeotheBlog.com
Steven Garber was the featured speaker at my Covenant Seminary graduation in May, 2014. Not long afterwards, my wife and I read and discussed this book. It is best read slowly, as he weaves in stories of the band Jars of Clay, Jena Lee Nardella, Wendell Berry, U2, John Le Carre, J.I. Packer, and many others, books and films in this wonderful book. Reading it had the feel of having a conversation with him in a coffee shop or living room.
Garber is the principal of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. They see that vocation is integral, not incidental, to the mission Dei. He writes that this book invites the reader to âcome and seeâ that this vision of vocation is being lived out by men and women who are committed to a faith that shapes vocation that shapes culture.
He writes that there is not a more difficult task that human beings face than to know the world and still love it. A recurring question that he asks throughout the book is: âKnowing what I know, what will I doâ? He indicates that in thousands of important and different ways, each story is formed by asking and answering that question.
Among the other penetrating questions he asks in the book are:
â How does one learn to see with the eyes of the heart, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world is and isnât?
â Can we know the world and still love it?
I enjoyed his profiles of people who chose to love with honesty and integrity. He writes that those people âsee themselves as implicated in the way the world is and ought to be. They see themselves as having vocations that call them into life, into the world â into a way of knowing that implicates them, for loves sake.â He writes that they are people who have vocations in imitation of the vocation of God knowing the worst about the world, and still loving it. They learn to live in the tension of life, living with what is and longing for what will be for the sake of the world. He writes that they become âhints of hopeâ.
He shares his belief that the most important question is âWhat do we love?â He states that what we believe and how we live is formed by the way we answer that question.
This is a rich book. Read it slowly, and ponder what Garber writes. It will be time well spent.
Companion for the Vocational Journey
I wrote this endorsement for Visions of Vocation prior to the publication of the book in 2014. This book is even more important today as we see so much lostness in our world and a deep hunger for meaning in our lives. Its sound theology and rich, tender story telling draws us in and gives us hope.
"Visions of Vocation calls its readers to make a commitment to a journey, one of calling and courage that will challenge not just your mind but also your heart and your soul.