DeLano J. Sheffield is the Business Resource Specialist for Goodwill of MoKan where he connects to people on the fringes, training them to reach their full potential through learning and the power of work; he also is on the frontlines of the advances of the fourth industrial revolution and coaches leaders on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. He began his career as an architectural engineer then went on to attend seminary. In every part of his life he finds ways to infuse theology into vocation, and strengthen practical connections of faith and daily activity. DeLano lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cherished Co-Laborers
When we hold other believers dear to us, we find mutual reminders of the ties that bind us together.
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“Can’t” Can’t Be, Anymore (Part 2)
How do we get to a redemptive imagination, a view of life that sees Christ involved in the life of the lost? Involved in poverty? Involved in homelessness? In brokenness and wholeness? We have to look at three things: who we worship, who we love, and what we decide to do.
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“Can’t” Can’t Be, Anymore (Part 1)
Jesus came to give us a better perspective and better imagination—a redemptive imagination, really; a view of this world and life that considers the fact that if God the Father can send _his own son_ into the world and let him die for all of us so that we never have to worry about death again, then just perhaps he can use us to save others, help with homelessness, and figure out a way for us to be together even when things break down.
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Next Year’s Outlook (Part 2)
Whatever the plan is by this time a year from now, I am convinced that neither success nor failure, promotion or sending away, new friends or departure, health or sickness, graduation or ordinary mundane repetition can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus _our_ Lord.
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Next Year’s Outlook (Part 1)
You will inevitably have success at some point in an aspect of your life. Those successes should be held in the right perspective in light of Christ’s accomplishment once for all. Also, inevitably a real failure of some sort will occur. No matter how deeply real the failure is, or the lingering effects, they cannot overshadow that there is a courtroom where all your failures are paid for.
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If You Will Wait, Part 2
While we are waiting and—often—creating stories of doom for ourselves _or for others_ God has repeatedly demonstrated that if we would just wait, God’s power is perfect because we are weak.
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If You Will Wait, Part 1
Advent produces waiting. But not a listless wait with no anchor; we wait with root in the soul. We wait like a people who know that God is not done with his people. Like the practice of sabbath, or Habakkuk, or Paul, we pause and look back, look forward and rejoice and press forward.
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Remember the Place You Belong
It would do us well to remember that we are qualified in spite of good or bad circumstances.
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Human Significance, Part 2
Awe in God’s majesty gives us hope and clarity that while things may be dark now, they will not always be.
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Human Significance, Part 1
God can use the vastness of creation to show us that we are valuable to Him.
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Character of God’s Kindness
Regardless of region, gender, race, background, whether we’re on a mountain peak or the stormy sea, Jesus can find us and easily reverse the domain of darkness with his Kingdom.
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Gains and Losses, Part 2
What a profound change to my perspective and the way that I carry out my work, status, choosing a neighborhood, relationship to others, etc. when Jesus is becoming absolutely sufficient for me.
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