Vocation Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/vocation/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:18:33 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Vocation Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/vocation/ 32 32 93416650 The Proverbs Project: Know your name… https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-proverbs-project-know-your-name/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-proverbs-project-know-your-name/#comments Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5011 A few weeks back I alerted you to my proverbs project – spring boarding from the thirty sayings that start in Proverbs 22:20. “How is it going?” I hear you ask. “Pretty well,” I reply. “I am up to number 23, and my plan is to drip feed them out over a longish period – […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-proverbs-project-know-your-name/feed/ 3 5011 On Launching a Book: The Stirrers and Saints Story https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4938 There is a fair chance you already know that my latest book, “Stirrers and Saints: Forming Spiritual Leaders of Skill, Depth and Character” was recently launched. It’s my 7th, and I like to remind people that in the Bible 7 represents a complete or perfect number – so hopefully that says something about the book. […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/feed/ 3 4938 Because you can’t spend 5 days waiting for 2… https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-cant-spend-5-days-waiting-for-2/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-cant-spend-5-days-waiting-for-2/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4484 Is most of your week spent hanging out for the weekend, insufferably long hours in the office slowly ticking away while you wait for the magical 5pm Friday moment when you are free to go and enjoy life?For many people work is a drudge, a necessary evil that provides the money to keep food on […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-cant-spend-5-days-waiting-for-2/feed/ 8 4484 Redeeming Work: Job, career, or calling? https://brianharrisauthor.com/job-career-or-calling/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/job-career-or-calling/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:00:11 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2071 A significant portion of our life is engaged in ensuring that we have a roof over our head and food on the table. Some of us are able to work in such a way that life’s basic needs are just taken care of, for others it’s a pathway to wealth. But how do you view […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/job-career-or-calling/feed/ 0 2071 When God writes straight with crooked lines… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:00:36 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2017 Ever heard someone’s story, scratched your head and thought – ‘that doesn’t make sense. Surely this story is not over yet’? Sometimes you get to hear the sequel, sometimes not. When it’s not, you simply have to trust that God is fully competent, and makes God sized decisions based on significantly fuller knowledge than you or I will […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/feed/ 2 2017 On turning 59… https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-turning-59/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-turning-59/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:00:34 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2006 I turned 59 on Wednesday. It’s an awkward kind of a birthday 59 – it feels like an unspecified space. When you turn 39 or 49 people joke, ‘almost 40’ or ‘almost 50’. But 59 is different. People politely say, ‘I would never have guessed it’ – as though you are about to enter territory […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-turning-59/feed/ 8 2006 Developing a personal plan: Reeb’s From Success to Significance https://brianharrisauthor.com/developing-a-personal-plan-reebs-from-success-to-significance/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/developing-a-personal-plan-reebs-from-success-to-significance/#respond Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:00:31 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1937 It’s the marking time of the year – oh joy. Actually sometimes it is a joyous occasion, when a student greatly exceeds my expectations or highlights something I have not thought about before. True, it can take a fair few essays before I read one in that category, but it happens just often enough to keep me hopeful… […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/developing-a-personal-plan-reebs-from-success-to-significance/feed/ 0 1937 Retirement musings… https://brianharrisauthor.com/retirement-musings/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/retirement-musings/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:00:29 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1617 No, I don’t have plans to retire any time soon (how could you even think it?), but I recently attended a function to celebrate the retirement of two colleagues. One, Peter Lu, had worked for the Baptist Union of Western Australia for over 20 years, and the other, Terry Hicks, for 17 years. A lot […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/retirement-musings/feed/ 4 1617 To Strive for Great Things: Is Ambition OK? https://brianharrisauthor.com/to-strive-for-great-things-is-ambition-ok/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/to-strive-for-great-things-is-ambition-ok/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:00:52 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1145 J. Oswald Sanders starts his classic book Spiritual Leadership by contrasting 1 Tim 3:1 To aspire to leadership is an honourable ambition with Jeremiah 45:5 Are you seeking great things for yourself? Seek them not. There is a creative tension between the two sentiments. Is there a place in the life of a Christ follower […]

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