Living Your Heart's Desire

"Ever notice the career section of your favorite bookstore? There must be a lot of discontented people in the workforce these days. Are you one of them?

If you've ever daydreamed about alternate paths or wondered how you can find peace in today's rat race, this book is for you. You can find your true calling where God's grace and the daily grind meet.

Many of us follow a seemingly arbitrary and rushed path to a paycheck. Once you're out of school, whether it's high school or college, you're expected to go to work. You work hard to pay your dues . . . then, one day, you feel stuck. You feel restless and like a mercenary: the "it's-just-a-job" mentality. Soon, these feelings of alienation and cynicism spill over into the rest of your life.

Clapper goes beyond the usual career counseling formula in Living Your Heart's Desire. He explains why it's more helpful to understand the theology behind work, calling, and human freedom. You'll discover a variety of visions of what it means for you to lead a life of Christian faithfulness in all realms of existence.

"We must ask if the life we are living is a worthy expression of gratitude for what God has done for us," Clapper writes. "Our most important response is the shape of our entire life. It is, in short, our vocation."

Easy to read and relevant to today's economy and world (with many references and lessons from movies), this book can help you lead a more fulfilled, rewarding, and joyful Christian life — regardless of how you earn a paycheck.

Learn to see your "Office Space"-like world as a Spirit-filled and vital calling in Christ. Take comfort in knowing that God has a plan for your life. Revel in it."
 
Endorsements

"Tired of the rat race? Looking for something beyond a paycheck to give meaning to your work? This is the right book for you and for many Christians in our age. Greg Clapper draws us back to the ancient, spiritual roots of our calling. He rightly sees vocation as a Spirit-filled calling in Christ, grounded in faith, hope, and love. I hope this book inspires many readers to a renewed life of faith in the midst of their daily rounds — our true vocation in Christ."

-- Alan G. Padgett
Professor of Systematic Theology
Luther Seminary
 

"Rather than offering simplistic platitudes on how to find some previously undisclosed divine plan, Clapper instead makes use of ancient Christian wisdom and contemporary popular culture to help us discern God's call by listening for the voice of God in our lives."

-- Douglas M. Strong
Professor of the History of Christianity
Wesley Theological Seminary


"Greg Clapper invites you to catch a glimpse of the mystery of who you are and what you are called to be and do as a beloved child of God. Drawing deeply from the wells of Christian tradition, but also 'listening' intently to the voices of selected contemporary films, he woos you graciously into the possibility of a transformed life that is truly worth living."

-- Paul Wesley Chilcote
Professor of Historical Theology & Wesleyan Studies
Asbury Theological Seminary