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Available as Library eBooks

A Journey Worth Taking by Charles D. Drew
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2007
Redeeming Work by Bryan J. Dik
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2020
Visions of Vocation by Steven Garber
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2014
Calling and Clarity by Doug Koskela
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2015
Why College Matters to God, 3rd Edition by Rick Ostrander
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2021
Virtuous Minds by Philip E. Dow
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2013
The Excellent Mind by Nathan L. King
Call Number: EBOOK: COMING SOON
The ebook link for this volume will be added to this page when it becomes available in summer of 2024.

Available In Print in the Library

These books are normally on Reserve in the fall and in the main circulating collection in spring unless otherwise requested.

Rising to the Call by Os Guinness
Publication Date: 2008
An Invitation to Academic Studies by Jay D. Green
Publication Date: 2014
The Excellent Mind by Nathan L. King
Publication Date: 2021

Additional Books Related to Course Themes

Available as Library eBooks

Called by Mark Labberton
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2014
Leading Lives That Matter (2nd Ed) by Mark R. Schwehn (Editor); Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2020

Available in Print in the Library

Faculty: please let us know if you want these books (or any others) placed on Reserve; otherwise they will remain in the circulating collection.

Callings by William C. Placher (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005
Leading Lives That Matter (1st Ed) by Mark R. Schwehn (Editor); Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Learning the Good Life by Jessica Hooten Wilson; Jacob Stratman
Call Number: PN56.W54 L43 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Life Worth Living by Miroslav Volf; Matthew Croasmun; Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Publication Date: 2023

Books on Vocation in the JBU Library Catalog

Textbooks for Individual Gateway Sections Fall 2023

Available as Library eBooks

Garden City (ebook) by John Mark Comer
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2015
Limited Access: 1 user at a time.
You Are What You Love (ebook) by James K. A. Smith
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781587433801
Publication Date: 2016
Limited user access -- book may be temporarily unavailable when being viewed by others.

Available In Print in the Library

These books are on Reserve in Fall 2023.

Restless Devices by Felicia Wu Song
Call Number: BR115.T42 S66 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Learning the Good Life by Jessica Hooten Wilson; Jacob Stratman
Call Number: PN56.W54 L43 2022
Publication Date: 2022
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
Call Number: BF 353.5 .N37 W55 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Garden City by John Mark Comer
Call Number: BT701.3 .C66 2017
Publication Date: 2015
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
Call Number: BV4817 .H373 2016
Publication Date: 2016
You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble
Call Number: BV 4509.5 .N63 2021
Publication Date: 2021
You Are What You Love by James K. A. Smith
Call Number: BV176.3 .S48 2016
Publication Date: 2016

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