Spiritual Vocation: A Thessalonian Perspective

During a recent Watershed Worship and Discernment service, I confessed my Golden Calf: my creative use of language, my gift of teaching and speaking. The occasion for this confession was Tyler's comment that sometimes what we are overwhelmed by, even obsessed by creatively, can be a gift from God - an expression of our true vocation. To surrender oneself to that creativity seems not the creation of a Golden Calf but rather an enthusiastic response to the divine call. There is an important truth in Tyler's comment that our gifts are from God and that we ought to give ourselves to our vocations as an act of worship.

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Weakness Made Strong A Lost Anatolian Letter (a fictional account)

Our short but well-preserved letter from Thyatira isn't a find of the Nag's notability but it does contribute to understanding what some members of the community in Thyatira felt about John's jolting letter of admonition. This recently discovered response to Elder John was found by Ian Hodder, a lucky and meticulous Anotolian archeologist, to the now cold forge in the ruins of the Thyatiran Bronzeworker's Association in 2006. Along with the copy was Decius Gallio Gallipor's request to be excused from the upcoming Minerva's Guild Festival on March 15 for religious reasons. Decius

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