I’ve defined myself a number of different ways over the course of my years on this earth. I will often open my speaking engagements by telling the audience I’m probably the most confused person in the room, yet they gave me the microphone. Here’s why. I started my...
Project Rescue ministers to helpless women and children who have been trapped in the sex trade by evil traffickers who trick them into moving to the cities with false promises of employment. But, for the first time in our lifetime, the sex trafficking industry is...
Over the past three months, COVID-19 has literally shutdown the global economy. We’ve talked about it extensively here at The Stone Table, because we believe the marketplace is part of God’s sacred design. The economy is one of the key ways we can glorify God and love...
About three weeks into Indiana’s Coronavirus “Stay At Home” order, my 18-year old daughter and I were looking for (another) movie to watch. A few year’s back, I listened to the audiobook of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson’s powerful account of fighting to overturn...
A few years ago, our company adopted an unofficial motto: We wash feet. It really stuck. I see it regularly on email tag-lines, hear it in meeting discussions, even see it in pictures and graphics hung around our offices. We’re in the housing business, we’re not...
The Coronavirus has changed everything and it’s stirred up a lot of emotions for everyone in the process. Whether it’s about the health of our communities or the desire to reopen the economy, everyone is talking. As a faith and work organization we wanted to speak up and clarify because what we have been talking about for years is now on full display. That’s what Erik shares in this week’s video.
More than a dozen years ago we were working in a war zone in Northern Uganda. It seemed there were needs all around us. No amount of resources could seemingly meet all the needs that were represented by these precious people. Murders, abductions, mutilations and many...
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said, read, or heard “these are strange times,” I’d be able to take my wife out for a really great dinner; that is, of course, whenever we’re once again allowed to go to a restaurant. Indeed, these are truly unprecedented days....
Earlier this year, my brother-in-law visited a dear friend who lives in the Middle East. They spent a day traveling to historic sites, including what many archaeologists now believe is the actual Mt. Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments. At the base of this...
Our friends at Sinapis are doing beautiful work through raising up and empowering Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs in poor countries around the world. We are big believers that business is vital part of God’s Kingdom work, both here at home and to the ends of the earth....
Our non-profit organization is dedicated to bridging the gap between faith and work through global missions efforts. As a marketplace-rooted brand, we believe that spiritual fulfillment and professional success go hand in hand. In this video, we explore how our mission is to empower individuals to bring their faith into the workplace and make a positive impact on a global scale. Join us as we work towards creating a world where faith and work are seamlessly integrated.
Let me tell you what the Gospel is not. The Gospel is not, “I am a Sinner; I work hard to improve myself and God approves me because of my effort.” That is not the Gospel. This is the Gospel: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
You know when I was a pastor, my passion was the Gospel; the proclamation of Jesus Christ and the discipleship of people through the local church. That was my job. So, my job was pastor, my passion was the Gospel. But now for the last decade or so, I have been back in the marketplace. And you know what? My passion is still the Gospel. I sit at a different seat now. I’m in a marketplace seat. I’m involved in managing apartments and developing apartments and Realestate but my passion as a believer is still the same. My job is different but my vocation (my vocation or “vocare” from the Latin word “calling”) is still the same; the Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ. I just do that now from a marketplace seat. So, I want to encourage all of you, whether you work in a church, whether you work in a marketplace, whether you’re on the mission field, the vocation and calling of every believer ultimately is the same. It is to embody the kingdom and to proclaim and glorify the name of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. That’s your job, that’s your vocation.