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The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life?... read more
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- T. E. Lawrence: Add a description of this character.
- Paul: Apostle and writer of a majority of the epistles (letters) in the New Testament.
- Moltke
- Hitler: German leader during World War II
- G. K. Chesterton
- Havel
- C. S. Lewis
- Picasso
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Martin Luther
- Francis
- Julius Caesar
- Peter: Disciple and author of 2 epistles (letters) in the New Testament.
- William Wilberforce
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Mozart
- Steiner
- Salieri
- Andrew Carnegie
- John Cotton
- Gordon
- Kuyper
- Magellan
- Gilot
- David
- O'connell
- Roger
- Cripps
- Winston Churchill: English Prime Minister during World War II
- Menuhin
- Augustine
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“We worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship…it is absolutely essential to think through Christ’s view of rest and spiritual discipline for his disciples for all time.”
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“The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren’t where they should be but that they aren’t what they should be where they are.”
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calling is the truth that God calls us to himselfso decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.
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The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.
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God normally calls us along the line of our giftedness, but the purpose ofgiftedness is stewardship and service, not sellshness.
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We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God-which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.
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Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism, and direction lived out as a response to his summons and service.
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God alone needs nothing outside himself, because he himself is the highest and the only lasting good. So all objects we desire short of God are as finite and incomplete as we ourselves are and, therefore, disappointing if we make them the objects of ultimate desire.
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A life lived listening to the decisive call of God is a life lived before one audience that trumps all others-the Audience of One.
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The truth is not that God is finding us a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing-and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.
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Oswald Chambers. 'Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ,' he wrote. 'The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.... The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him.'
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Our primary calling as followers of Christ is by him, to him, and for him. First and foremost we are called to Someone (God), not to something (such as motherhood, politics, or teaching) or to somewhere (such as the inner city or Outer Mongolia). Our secondary calling, considering who God is as sovereign, is that everyone, everywhere, and in everything should think, speak, live, and act entirely for him.
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First Sentence edit
As you know, I have been very fortunate in my career and I've made a lot of money-far more than I ever dreamed of, far more than I could ever spend, far more than my family needs.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Ultimate Why
2. Seekers Sought
3. The Haunting Question
4. Everyone, Everywhere, Everything
5. By Him, to Him, for Him
6. Do What You Are
7. A Time to Stand
8. Let God Be God
9. The Audience of One
10. Our Utmost for His Highest Still
11. Where the Buck Stopes, There Stand I
12. People of the Call
13. People of the Way
14. There but for the Grace of God Goes God
15. What Is That to You?
16. More, More, Faster, Faster
17. Combating the Noonday Demon
18. A World with Windows
19. Locked out and Staying There
20. A Focused Life
21. Dreamers of the Day
22. Patches of Godlight
23. Let All Your Thinks Be Thanks
24. Everybody's Fools
25. The Hour Has Come
26. Last Call
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- Os Guinness (Author)
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- Dewey: 248.4
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