Articles by Jeremy Robertson

About Jeremy Robertson
Jeremy Robertson has served as a Minister at the Edmond Church of Christ since 2010. After 13 years of Youth Ministry, he transitioned to Family Life Ministry in 2013. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian University with a bachelor’s degree in Ministry/Bible and later earned a master’s degree in Family Life Ministry from OC. In his role, Jeremy leads ministry and outreach efforts for marriage enrichment, young adults, men’s and women’s ministry, and other family life contexts. He and his wife Ashley have two sons.
Last time, we discussed the church’s tendency to conflate outreach with inviting people to church. While inviting people to church is a worthwhile and important mission, we shouldn’t believe that inviting people to church is what saves them. Jesus saves; a church building does not.
Read MoreI wonder if we have unintentionally obscured Jesus’s famous commission at the end of Matthew when he tells his disciples to share the gospel message.
Read MoreWork is good. Faith is good. Can they be good together? I won’t belabor the false dichotomy of faith vs. career since we have discussed this topic in previous articles. But if Christians believe that God made humans to work and that by working, humans can experience their God-given identity as caretakers of creation, then Christians should enjoy their work. God made work good.
Read MoreI do the dishes because I must. I feel no sense of joy or fulfillment. It’s a task that must be done. I do the laundry because I must—knowing full well that the hamper will quickly return to an overflowing state, necessitating a return to the laundering process. I clean the bathroom because…well, you get the picture. We do some things because they must be done, not because we receive joy or fulfillment from them.
Read MoreA false dichotomy presents two seemingly opposite choices as the only potential choices. False dichotomies are fallacies that ignore a wide range of potentially nuanced outcomes.
Read More“Who am I?” “What should I be doing with my life?” “Where can I find fulfillment?” These are massive questions that require wisdom, discernment, and introspection. They feel ominous. The weight of these questions too often burdens a person to the point of inaction. “I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing since answering those questions requires too much of me.”
Read MoreTogether, let’s recover our sense of vocation. You might have heard someone say, “I don’t know how to live out my faith at work.” Maybe a friend or coworker has said this. Maybe you feel this. Faith matters to us, but we struggle to take it beyond the walls of the church building and into the office building.
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