{"product_id":"reflections-on-my-call-to-fred-craddock-9780827232570","title":"Reflections on My Call to Preach: Connecting the Dots","description":"Travel with revered preacher and author Fred Craddock through his early years as he considers what made him take to the pulpit. \"For some reason, I felt I had to say 'Yes' or 'No' to the ministry so I could feel free again. My siblings and friends talked almost casually about options and preferences as to careers, but with no evident sense of urgency. Not so with me. I did not then, nor do I now know whether the burden of choice was a trait of personality, a kind of super-conscientiousness, whether the calling to ministry itself carried a weight, a burden, peculiar to the task itself. Rightly or wrongly, when I thought of possibly becoming a journalist, that would be a choice, 100 percent mine. When I considered becoming a minister, that was not totally my decision; I was responding to God's will for me. Of course, I had been told that journalists, lawyers, teachers, merchants, farmers-all could understand their lives as a vocation, a calling, but what I am telling you is that I perceived, I felt, I experienced the idea of being a preacher as different, and that difference was sobering, even burdensome. That's why advice about not being in a hurry, taking my time, was not helpful even if wise. If it was my decision, why could I not make it now; if it was God's decision, why did not God tell me, or at least tell my father or my mother? I prayed for the ache to leave me.\" -Excerpt from Reflections on My Call to Preach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Craddock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0827232578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780827232570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chalice Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Fred Craddock","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072832467199,"sku":"9780827232570","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11063ef8-f594-430c-ba6b-3fc0abd8bde2.jpg?v=1685444193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reflections-on-my-call-to-fred-craddock-9780827232570","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}