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Discerning: Exploring God's Call to Ministry × Discerning: Exploring God's Call to Ministry: Online Resources about God's Call to Ministry

Online Articles and Essays about God's Call to Ministry

"Vocation: Discerning your calling" by Timothy Keller, in Gospel in Life.com, 2007

"Calling and Career in Christian Ministry", by Richard W. Christopherson, in Review of Religious Research, 35. 3 (1994).

"Vocation and Mission: The Role of the Laity in the Mission of Christ", by D Nadasdy, in Lutheran Mission Matters, 2016.

"The Vocations of Christians and the Ministry of the Church", by David VanDrunen in Modern Reformation, 2011.

"How Do I Know if God Is Calling Me to Vocational Ministry?" by Ken Keathley, from Center for Great Commission Studies. (2023)

Vocation: The Theology of the Christian Life
by Gene Edward Heith, and Patrick Henry College
from the Journal of Markets & Morality, 2011.

Open Access Databases and Websites to Explore

Open Access Digital Theological Library This link opens in a new window
OADTL provides links to numerous ebooks, articles and dissertations re: "Call of God"
ATLA Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Open Access articles on "Ministry as Vocation", etc., from the "Atla Digital Library", For example, see below: "The Sense of Vocation in Ministry"

"The Sense of Vocation in the Christian Ministry" by Herbert Farmer (1962)

Christian Classics Ethereal Library This link opens in a new window
Search here for "call to ministry," etc. among many of the Church Fathers, as well as more recent theologians--Calvin, for example (below)

"Call of God" in the Institutes of John Calvin

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Websites and Organizations Focused on Vocational Ministry

Theology of Work Project (especially "Types of God's Calling", and "Vocation, Ministry and Mission").

Interested in learning more about this topic?

Check out the course that accompanies this resource guide: Discerning God's Call