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Hello and welcome to another episode of Ask Into Write Anything, the program where we answer your questions on Jesus,

the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College, and I'm here with.

I'm Tom Wright from Whitcliffe Hall in Oxford. And we're having a good time in London,

going through the very many questions we get, the short, the long and everything in between.

Tom, this week, we've got a good diverse array of questions. We've got the kingdom of God,

incarnation, and when is Jesus coming back? You know, should I put that on my calendar? Do we have a day we can mark? You know, I've like to know what I'm doing in the coming years.

Well, anyway, our first question is from Yu Juan Chong, from Singapore, wonderful city, beautiful

city. I love Singapore. And he's got a question about building for the kingdom. And he says,

Hi, Reverend Dr. Wright and Reverend Dr. Bird, very gracious, respectful

greeting. I really appreciated Dr. Wright's book surprised by hope and was especially encouraged

by the section talking about earthly, material, daily mundane work in Building for the Kingdom.

I wonder if you could share more about this,

or if you could point me to other books that might explore this theme deeper, academic or otherwise.

I have read Daryl Kodstans, The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work, and Miroslav Wolf's Work in the

Spirit. Are there other books, too, that you might know of?

I was especially touched by what Reverend Dr. Wright wrote about our labor in spirit-led works,

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