“You can try to sell good coffee, but you won’t make any money at it.” The chill of the early morning wrapped around us as we sat across from each other…
Kingdom Business And The Baker’s Dilemma
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The Stone Table Welcomes Bill Tibbetts as VP of Education & Multiplication
[Indianapolis, May 1, 2024] – The Stone Table proudly announces the appointment of Bill Tibbetts as the Vice President of Education and Multiplication. With an illustrious career as the former Dean of the College of Business and Technology at North Central University,...
The Goodness of God Across Cultures
I lived among an unreached people group for 2 months in Africa, and this is what I learned. What is an unreached people group you may ask? According to The Joshua Project, “An unreached or least-reached people is a people group among which there is no indigenous...
Upside-Down Kingdom Business: The Many Bottom Lines of BAM
For years, discussion around the multiple bottom lines of BAM has been heated. Spiritual only? Spiritual and profit? Maybe CSR, CSR+, or a quadruple bottom line with social and environmental issues.
Upside-Down Kingdom Business: Evangelism Vs Social Responsibility
Social responsibility and evangelism are not diametrically opposed to one another. They are rightly seen as partners to the same end when rooted in love.
Upside-Down Kingdom Business: A Response to Milton Friedman
For fifty years, Milton Friedman’s doctrine has embedded itself in the minds of America’s best and brightest business leaders, but it is good and godly business?
10 Quotes on the Sacred-Secular Divide
As followers of Jesus, we almost instinctively separate our lives into sacred and secular partitions. Going to church is seen as a sacred activity, but going to work is secular. Preaching a sermon is an obvious godly endeavor, but managing apartments, waiting tables,...
Top 10 BAM Books: Roadmap to Business as Mission Success
Top 10 BAM Books including Missional Marketplace, Missions Disrupted, Tentmaking, BAM Global Movement, The Missional Entrepreneur, Scatter, and more
Business as Mission: When Business Is Not Your Gifting
The Missionary Band is the marrying of business-background and ministry-background believers in a mutual business partnership for a common ministry goal.
Beyond Resolutions: True Transformation For The New Year
It’s the year 2024.
Seeing that date in writing feels like the opening line of a sci-fi movie to me. I guess living in a world where we can order food to the house, turn our lights on and off, and play any song we can think of just by speaking into the air is kind of like living in a sci-fi movie. We’re just a flying car away from being the Jetsons. Oh wait, we have those, too? And don’t even get me talking about generative A.I. Welcome to Orbit City.
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Crisis and Compassion: Finding Empathy in the Heat of Adversity
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When Promotion Feels Like Punishment | Sanford Swanson
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Unpacking Gospel Outreach to Unreached People Groups | Interview with Missionary Bob Holloway
We just got back from a whirlwind three days in Peru, up in the Andes Mountains, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. I've almost recovered the oxygen I lost during that trip. While we were there, we got to talk to my new friend, missionary Bob Holloway,...