The Marketplace - book review
Larry E. McCrary's "The Marketspace: The Essential Relationships Between the Sending Church, Marketplace Worker, and Missionary Team" offers a compelling argument for the critical role of marketplace missionaries in today's global context.
Developing Intercultural Intelligence - Shireen Chua
Shireen Chua is the Director of Third Culture Solutions, which seeks to equip individuals and organisations to thrive in an interculturally complex and global world. She helps us explore how to develop greater intercultural intelligence at work.
Rethinking how we take the gospel overseas - Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott, President of OM USA, shares his insights on reimagining global mission, understanding our role as image bearers and why all that matters for our everyday work.
Work as a spiritual act of worship
Sarah Hunter shares her experience of integrating faith within the corporate world during her time at GlaxoSmithKline.
Scatter
In Scatter, missions innovator Andrew Scott sounds a call for a new era of missions, one that uses the global marketplace for gospel growth and sees every Christian--engineer, baker, pastor, or other--as God's global image bearer.
God’s Grace for Your Career
Christian career coach Katie Conley unpacks how your Gifts, Relationships, Abilities, Curiosities, and Experiences provide a unique blueprint for your career.
Packed with career-based activities and resources, biblical illustrations and real-life stories, this book will help you gain clarity and confidence for your career.
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace.
Here, Timothy Keller argues that God’s plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop our faith.
Fruitfulness on the Frontline
Mark Greene unpacks a fresh and original framework for what it looks like to be fruitful with and for Jesus. Looking at six ‘Ms’, from making good work to moulding culture and beyond, the book opens up a host of possibilities for you to make a difference among the people you naturally meet, in the places you find yourself day by day.
From the Garden to the City
An experienced Web developer and writer on technology and culture, John Dyer walks through the story of the Bible and introduces key ideas about how technology and culture interact.
In this fully revised and updated edition for 2022, Dyer examines technological reality through the lens of Scripture, gleaning insight from the best thinkers on technology, theology, and culture. He reveals how technology left unexamined can enslave us—yet understanding it with spiritual vision, the way God intends, is totally transformative.
Tenants of the King
Through interactive group sessions, video interviews with leading Christian thinkers and insightful Bible commentary, this resource will help you reflect on the challenges of a changing climate, and how Christians can respond with hope to one of today’s greatest challenges.
How did I get here? Five steps toward godly career clarity.
Katie had a real desire for all her clients to discover their career purpose, but especially to help Christians look at their career from a biblical perspective. And Katie enjoyed helping Christians – as she puts it – ‘unpack’ God’s plan for them.
Make the Most of Your Foreign Assignment - From The Upstream Collective
Shirley Ralston, over at Upstream Collective, has a compelling three-part blog series on marketplace ministry based on her own years of experience. In part two, she unpacks the importance of evaluating your own worldview, integrating into local life, attending to your health, and engaging in ministry.
Embracing God's Calling: Reflections on a Journey of Purposeful Work
Ruth Valerio reflects that in today's fast-paced world, the pursuit of money and career success often takes centre stage, yet she has been learning from her personal work journey the importance of living a life sold out for God.
How do we share our hope in Jesus in what we do?
A career in consulting has given Steve Osei-Mensah opportunities to ask – and try and answer – many interesting questions. He shares how paying attention, loving our neighbours and simply the way we work can bring opportunities to share Jesus Christ.
Caring for Creation in and through your Work
As we think about how to share the gospel in our workplaces, please do consider how our attitudes and actions towards God's creation however small they might appear, will be noticed. They're important to God, and there'll be noticed by our colleagues. As Robert Frost once said ‘when Christians take the earth seriously, then people will take the Gospel seriously’.
Workship: How To Use Your Work To Worship God
Kara Martin explores the biblical view of work, provides six spiritual disciplines to integrate faith and work, shares practical wisdom on how to make a difference in the workplace, and offers ideas to help churches better equip their congregations to live out their faith at work.
Workship 2: How to Flourish at Work
What does faith at work look like in reality? In this follow-up to Workship 1, Kara Martin shares more practical wisdom on making a difference in the workplace. Topics range from hospitality and leadership, to ethical issues and workplace conflict, to reflections on unemployment, women and work, and the future of work.
Using your Vocation for God
We have too often felt that to be missional we have to leave behind our career, qualifications and skills to serve the Lord abroad. Yet this narrow view of mission is not what God has for us. Instead, God calls us to use the education, opportunities, blessings and skills he has given us. Maybe His plans for you are bigger than your own?
Mission Matters
Offers a good biblical introduction to the subjection of mission, it’s practical and accessible and a great place to start if you are wanting to learn more about God’s purposes for the world and how you can be a part of it.
Changing the climate
A really accessible, practical book on why and how Christians and churches should and can take steps to tackle climate change. Read it alone or share with your small group, family or church.