In the future, when Jesus reigns on the earth, when lions lie down with lambs, people will resolve disagreements by telling the truth in love. In those days, unlike in today’s world, love and truth will be harmoniously one.
In today’s world, many people talk as if truth and love are incompatible. In courtrooms and classrooms, in taverns and town meetings, truth and love are talked about as opposite values—truth being intellectual and rational; love, emotional and nonrational.
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In today's world, many people talk as if truth and love are incompatible. In courtrooms and classrooms, in taverns and town meetings, truth and love are talked about as opposite values—truth being intellectual and rational; love, emotional and nonrational. More than just temperamentally different, truth and love, like adult siblings grown apart, are said to have gone their different ways. Both accuse each other of incivility.
At the beginning of the school year, when students consider the choice of a major and a career they may pursue after graduation, Hope College history professor Marc Baer offers guidance on how to follow God through our career choices.
To answer the question, “What is Calling?” recognizes two different types of calling for the Christian. All believers share a primary calling to love God and follow Him. I experienced that when I was 25, a few weeks after I had passed the comprehensive exams for my PhD program.
I had grown up in a non-believing family, completely outside the church.
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Vocations, careers, jobs, and work flow from the primary calling. Although our secular-minded friends, family, and neighbors wish it were not so, there is no calling without a Caller. Because there is a Caller, you have a calling.
Pete Hammond was a unique human being. Friend. Mentor. Entrepreneur. Author. Rascal. Anyone who ever heard his laugh will never forget it. And Pete laughed a lot.
I first met Pete in the fall of 2000 when he and I were speakers at a Business as Mission conference in Seattle. After he sat through my ethics seminar, I listened to him exposit Hebrews 11. How could anyone, I wondered, find so much humor in that text? Afterwards, we had coffee and a friendship was born.
That’s how Pete operated.
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Pete Hammond was a unique human being. Friend. Mentor. Entrepreneur. Author. Rascal. Anyone who ever heard his laugh will never forget it. And Pete laughed a lot.
From his office overlooking Ground Zero in New York City, Jimmy Lee is still close to the Wall Street world where he worked for many years. But now his focus is on different worlds: the worlds of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
From his office overlooking Ground Zero in New York City, Jimmy Lee is still close to the Wall Street world where he worked for many years. But now his focus is on different worlds: the worlds of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
The integration of faith and vocation, the foundation underlying InterVarsity’s Following Christ 2008 conference, was promoted at the conference in the Bosscher-Hammond awards competition. Twenty-five semi-finalists received free registration to the conference, December 27-31, 2008, in Chicago.
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The integration of faith and vocation, the foundation underlying InterVarsity's <i>Following Christ 2008</i> conference, was promoted at the conference in the Bosscher-Hammond awards competition.
Pete Hammond exemplified InterVarsity’s commitment to campus ministry in creative and unique ways. We are grieved at his passing but thankful that his ministry touched and enriched so many lives. Pete Hammond died last week at his home, at the age of 72.
Pete joined InterVarsity staff as an area director in 1966, working in the southeastern U.S., and he was one of InterVarsity’s early advocates for multiethnic ministry. He also became the director of Evangelism and served as vice president at large.
Ministry in Daily Life
His life touched almost every aspect of InterVarsity.
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InterVarsity mourns the loss of Pete Hammond, a creative and gifted senior executive
Former InterVarsity staffer Andy Crouch wants to know, what do you make of the world? In his new book, Culture Making (July 08 release from InterVarsity Press), he challenges Christians to move beyond the “culture wars” and simply condemning, critiquing, copying or even consuming culture. Instead he unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians make something of the world—by creating culture.
Andy skillfully unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture.
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Christians are challenged to move beyond the culture wars and become culture creators.
The school year is coming to a close. Students are deciding what they will be doing during the summer. Regina, a graduate of the University of California–Davis, thought she might participate in an InterVarsity Global Project in East Asia. God brought her to the point of considering this program and then guided her to her final decision. In the following selection, Regina relates the process in her own words.
“I graduated in the summer of 2007 and started a job on a local newspaper.
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Regina had plans for her life but then God intervened
Bette Lau is completing her education as an art student at Western Michigan University (WMU). She attended Urbana 06 where the Lord gave her a burden for people suffering from the AIDS epidemic in Africa. As she thought about the horror of their suffering, she was moved to prayer. Though she felt hopeless in light of the many problems created by the epidemic, Bette wanted to do something more.
As she prayed, she thought of organizing an art exhibit centered on the theme of AIDS awareness.
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A vision at Urbana 06 to help AIDS victims leads to a student art exhibit
Jen Albrecht, Convention Facilities Manager for Urbana 06, InterVarsity’s 2006 Student Missions Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, has been selected as Meeting Professional of the Year by the Association for Convention Operations Management (ACOM). The award was presented at the ACOM Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 12, 2008.
“I accept the award on behalf of my wonderful team of InterVarsity staff and volunteers,” Jen said.
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Jen Albrecht, Convention Facilities Manager for Urbana 06, InterVarsity's 2006 Student Missions Convention in St. Louis, has been selected as Meeting Professional of the Year by the Association for Convention Operations Management.
