Hey, everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, hey everybody.

Thanks for listening to the Strange Bible podcast.

This is going to be the first of just a short two-part series.

These were two teachings that I contributed to a teaching

series at Door of Hope Church. Thinking about work and career and vocation, we were at a moment,

we had a ton of young 20-somethings, meant dozens and dozens of whom were brand new followers

of Jesus, living and working right in the

core of Portland. And we sensed at that moment in the church, we needed to help guide many of these

people in helping them think about their work and vocation as a part of how they follow Jesus,

of viewing their careers and vocations as a part of how they follow Jesus, of viewing their careers and vocations as a part of their discipleship to Jesus. And there were a number of recent books

out on the topic by Timothy Keller and a New Testament scholar, Ben Witherington. And so we just

thought, man, let's go at this. So these were two teachings that I contributed. This was the first one in the series that's called a story about work. And essentially, I try and draw together portraits of what constitutes meaningful work in modern American Western culture versus the conception of work that we find in the storyline of the Bible.

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