Program: #5004
Topic: Calling
First air date October 22, 2006
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Journalist Judy Valente tells how God took her passion for finding a good story and focused it on stories about people of faith.

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Sermon Segment

 
Dr. Thomas Long, Professor of Preaching at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, shares a message called "Where You Never Expected to Be." He says God calls us to tasks we never imagined for ourselves and places we never expected to be. If we know how to listen, we can hear God's call right now.

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Quotation


God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

 
                                                       — Arthur Guiterman

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Thomas Long on the topic of our calling. He says the call to serve God is always costly, but never ourtside the range of our abilities. God uses the gifts and passions we have already been given to equip us for whatever it is to which we are called.

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Reflection Segment

 
Vicki Garvey, Director of Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, says that God calls us to care for both the magnificent and the mundane.

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