Join us here in Ogden this June for our annual New Christenum Press conference.

This year's theme, The War for Normal, features a great lineup of speakers, as well as a whole bunch of fun events to make new friends with like-minded saints.

Tickets are more affordable than ever this year, with a brand new family pass covering your entire household for one low price.

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Brightheart, on being human, we've been talking about four

aspects of life where a man or a woman can grow and improve or become more fruitful, the physical,

the spiritual, the social, and the vocational. Over well over a dozen episodes, we've worked

through those first three categories now, laying out a vision for embodied in physical life,

the life of the soul, living well in the community of the family and church, et cetera,

your people in place. And now in this episode of Brightheart, we begin to take up that final category,

the vocations of life. Imagine this. You wake up each morning to the seemingly ordinary tasks.

There's diapers to change, three meals a day to make, heading to work, building a business,

getting some exercise, helping little sit through family worship, disciplining your kids with

patience. There's a lot that goes into being a godly man or a godly woman in a productive

Christian household. The question I want you to consider is simply this. What are you doing in all of

these things? What we tend to think of as random chores, tasks, or even annoyances are often something

much greater. They're the tasks of our various vocations, callings which God himself

calls us to. The word vocation comes into English from the Latin vocatio, meaning a calling.

It's the same language that Scripture uses to describe the life and the roles that God assigns us.

And this is how the Bible talks. For example, in 1 Corinthians 717, the apostle Paul

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