[Note: This June I'm revisiting an old series on vocation. If I have anything to add, I'll pop back in at the end.] So far, this series on vocation has focused exclusively on general vocation, the things we are all called to do and be in the world by virtue of our shared humanity. We’ve … Continue reading Called to Be Ourselves [Revisited]
[Note: This June, I'm revisiting my 2022 series on vocation. I'll return at the end of the post if there's anything I'd like to add.] In the last post in this series exploring different facets of vocation, we looked at the calling to be Christlike: that, if, through sin, humanity marred our original vocation to … Continue reading Called to Maturity [Revisited]
This June, I'm revisiting my 2022 series on vocation. In the last post, we looked at what the creation story in Genesis tells us about humanity’s general vocation: to be God’s representatives in the world and to reflect God’s character in our interactions with one another and in how we exercise stewardship over creation. But, … Continue reading Called to Be Christlike [Revisited]
[This June I'm revisiting my series on vocation from a few years ago. With some minor changes, the main text is the same, but I've added some current thoughts at the end.] In the previous post, which introduced this series on vocation, we saw that God’s calling works on both general — what God calls … Continue reading Called to Be Human [Revisited]
It's June 2025 and a lot of people in my life have entered times of discernment. As such, I've been thinking back a lot on my 2022 series about vocation. I thought it might be time to revisit it here. Over the next few weeks I'll be re-posting the series, with some added commentary at … Continue reading Called according to God’s Purpose [Revisited]
Matthew Root 