Christian Overman

Resources

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Book

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God's Pleasure at Work (E-book)
God's Pleasure at Work
Book Description: 

Dr Christian Overman, the Founder and Director of Worldview Matters®, has just published a new e-book called: God's Pleasure At Work: The Difference One Life Can Make. It was created for high school students, but it's just as appropriate for adults of all ages and stages in life!

The e-book is a blend of "biblical worldview" + "theology of work," containing over 50 short video clips to augment the text. It is available for reading on Mac and PC.

For more detail information about the God's Pleasure At work, go to maximizemeaning.blogspot.com

English Theology of Work in Education
The Lost Purpose of Learning
Book Description: 
 

This e-book is provided for free by Dr. Christian Overman, Director of Worldview Matters

The lost purpose for learning

We don't find meaning in learning, we bring meaning to learning. If we can, that is. “Whatever!” seems to be a common bored attitude of children toward school. Bribes, or threats, or lures of a future well-paying job fail to inspire them. This is to be expected, if we fail to give them a compelling reason for their very existence. All sons and daughters are endowed before birth with a remarkable mandate from God. It's a mandate that brings extraordinary meaning to education. The Lost Purpose for Leaning explains what that mandate is, and why it brought about such an extraordinary level of flourishing for people in the United States. Yet, it has been neglected for the past 100 years, and the adverse results are only hidden from the blind. The Lost Purpose for Learning explains in simple language what the lost mandate is, and how it can be restored to education at all levels.

English Theology of Work in Education

Document

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Syllabus for Increase Meaning: A Wholistic Approach to Christian Education
Document Description: 

This is the syllabus for "Increase Meaning: A Wholistic Approach to Christian Education" online course at Seattle Pacific University.

The course explores how an understanding of the “bigger picture” of a biblical worldview can bring greater meaning and purpose to the study of academic subject matter (K-12), and how the biblical worldview can bring meaning to extracurricular activities of students, teachers and administrators. Participants will be presented with practical learning tools (see syllabus)

English Theology of Work in Education

Blog

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Worldview Matters Blog
Website Description: 

This is the blog of Worldview Matters by Dr. Christian Overman.  Find valuable posts and resources here.

English Theology of Work in Education

Website

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Worldview Matters
Website Description: 

Worldview Matters' primary goal is "to build a biblical view of work and human flourishing in the minds of elementary and secondary students." They equip teachers to connect any subjects to a bigger picture of work and a biblical view of human growth.

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Website Description: 

FInd also some free resources made available to anyone here.

English Theology of Work in Education

Video

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Critical Issues
English Theology of Work
TDOLCM: Don Flow on Flow Automotive
English Theology of Work
TDOLCM: The Difference One Life Can Make
English Theology of Work
TDOLCM: Dr. Nancy Pearcy on Capital Hill Guilt
English Theology of Work
GPAW: Where is the Secular World?
English Theology of Work
GPAW: Gary Starkweather: Inventor of the Laser Printer
English Theology of Work
GPAW: Islam in Africa
English Theology of Work
GPAW: Bonnie Wurzbacher on The Role of Business
English Theology of Work
GPAW: Dr. Al Erisman on Business As Mission
English Theology of Work
GPAW: An Introduction to Dr George Washington Carver
English Theology of Work

Dissertation

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God's Pleasure @ Work: How a Biblical Worldview Invigorates the Workplace and Renews the Community
Abstract: 

The project described herein seeks to bridge the gap between Sunday and Monday as evidenced by members of the Body of Christ who have difficulty believing that fixing potholes in a city street, flying a 767 jetliner, or painting an oil portrait can be as much 'the Lord's work' as what their pastors are doing.
This gap is largely the result of a platonic dualism in the Church, which has produced a religious worldview that falsely divides all forms of work into so called 'sacred' and 'secular' categories. Such a bifurcation is illegitimate and debilitating to the effectiveness of the Church and its total mission in the world.
This D. Min. project is based on the belief that the removal of this faulty paradigm would go a long way toward invigorating the workplaces of the world and transforming the communities in which these workplaces are found.
The persistent problem of dualism in the Church has been identified and lamented by many, yet efforts to remove this mental roadblock have been sporadic, with limited success. We have not yet reached a tipping point with respect to the massive paradigm shift necessary for a significant change in the status quo.
The proposed solution described here is an instructional curriculum targeted to the Body of Christ, called God's Pleasure @ Work: How a biblical worldview invigorates the workplace and renews the community. It is a multivi media, audio-visual, interactive workshop that incorporates fourteen hours of direct instruction (incorporating one-on-one dialogue and small-group discussion) and a personalized follow-up process done with the help of the Biblical Worldview Integration Discovery and Alignment Tool, or, the 'D.A.T.'
The workplace is the topic of this project because this is where most Christians spend 50-60 percent of their waking hours. Furthermore, if Christianity doesn't relate to life as it is lived in the workplace, then its benefits and blessings are severely truncated, and the community fails to be transformed to the degree that it can be. God's Pleasure @ Work was created to address this matter directly.

Publishing Info: 

Bakke Graduate University, 2007

English Theology of Work