INSPIRING YOU TO DISCOVER AND EMBRACE YOUR CALLING
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
– FREDERICK BUECHNER
INSPIRING YOU TO DISCOVER AND EMBRACE YOUR CALLING
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
– FREDERICK BUECHNER
FEATURED POSTS
Is work a job, a career, or a calling to us? Our answer to this question may well determine how fulfilled we are in life.
17/07/2021
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Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy have written a great book about the psychology of vocation. Let's dive deeper into understanding calling!
Paradoxically, when it comes to healing from burnout, Sabbath-keeping is the ultimate self-care when the self is not at the center.
25/06/2021
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Google 'how to recover from burnout', and you'll see many touting self-care as the cure-all solution. Here's why and where it falls short.
Burnout happens to the best of us, even when we are living at the center of our calling. Yet we avoid the stigma and push ourselves, pretending to be okay when the pain is screaming inside us. This is my burnout story, and how God slowly brings healing back into my life.
02/05/2021
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Cal Newport’s 'Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World' talks about the importance of doing deep, focused work in our age of distractions.
Steven Toon is my ex-student from my first year teaching in Anderson Junior College (AJC). He is now 31 years old, works at Seagate as a process engineer. He is also..
We often think that embracing our call is a life of joy and fulfillment. But for Jesus on Good Friday, embracing His call is agony and hell. I have adapted a Good Friday message I preached in 2019, for us to meditate on the extent of His love for us.
02/04/2021
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marcus Mok is a Christian teaching Chinese Language in a secondary school in Singapore. He serves as a deacon, lay preacher, Bible teacher and interpreter in his church. He is passionate about helping young adults and teenagers to discover and flourish in their individual callings, and fellow Christians in their mid-career to develop depth and meaning in their work. This blog is an extension and expression of his passion.
CATEGORIES
- About Calling (8)
- Called to Parent (1)
- Called to Preach (1)
- Called to Teach (6)
- Calling and Work (8)
- Feeling Burnout? (6)
- Interviews (8)
- My Reviews (8)
- Personal (6)
- Reflections (4)
