#43 Missie Branch, Contributing Author to Women & Work

Missie Branch serves as Asst. Dean of Students to Women and Director of Graduate Life at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in NC. She is also currently a student there completing her graduate degree in Ethics, Theology, and Culture. Missie is married to Duce Branch and together they have four children. She is passionate about women seeing themselves as theologians and disciples first. Missie is a contributing author to The Whole Woman: Ministering to Her Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength and the co-host of the Women & Work Podcast. Currently, Missie is serving as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Lifeway Christian Resources.

 

In this episode, Courtney interviews her co-host, Missie Branch, as Missie discusses the chapter she authored of Women & Work. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Image-Bearing and Your Good Works.” Missie shares:

• Her own work at Southeastern and how she has recently seen the faithfulness of God as she works, serves, and finishes up her Master’s degree
• What it means that we are image-bears of God and why that’s important to our work
• How our identity gets a makeover when we become believers in Christ
• The amazing benefits of knowing Christ and how that relationship with Him infuses our work with even more meaning
• What it means that we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10)
• And more!

 

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission Through Our Work
• The Whole Woman: Ministering to Her Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength 
• Women & Work Podcast, Episode 29 
• Women & Work Podcast, Episode 31
• Women & Work Podcast, Episode 34 

 

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