Summer 2017
God’s urgent call One evening some years ago, I helped serve what was called a midnight breakfast at the college where I teach. It was scheduled during final exam week in order to provide a break for the students, and faculty and staff were asked to help fill the students’ plates. Before we did so, we were told to put on a pair of plastic gloves in preparation for handling the food. “Do these come in different sizes?” asked one faculty member. “No,” was the reply. “One size fits all.” Our clumsy attempts to don the gloves revealed that that was not the case. Neither does “one size fits all” apply to how God calls people to serve him—or for that matter, to how people respond to his call. Both are illustrated time and again in this series on “God’s Urgent Call.” A specific call Consider our first unit of […]