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Business as Mission: When Business Is Not Your Gifting
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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.
Together, Our Lives Bear Fruit
Together, Our Lives Bear Fruit Mandy and I just spent a few days with some of our life-long friends. We met Nathan and Trish when we were first married. They had just moved to Indianapolis and found their way to the church Mandy and I had been attending our...
The Next Generation of Missionaries
How will they know unless someone tells them? This is the missional call of Romans 10:14. It is our call. Yet today we wrestle with another question: How can they know if no one is legally allowed to tell them?
Marketplace Skills are Missionary Skills
Marketplace skills are Missionary skills. I use this phrase a lot. The alliteration flows off the tongue, and it's just enough out of the box to grab people's attention. I throw it out in general conversation, when I preach, on videos we produce. And I truly do...
Is an A.I. Powered Church Really a Church?
Did you hear about the AI-powered church service that was held in Germany a couple months ago? The sermon, the worship songs, and even the prayers were all written and delivered by Artificial Intelligence. There were AI voices and realistic avatars delivering...
Leadership Through the Lens of the Gospel, Part 2
In part 1 of this article, we explored our tendency to define leadership the same way the world does. But godly influence is not the same as fame and notoriety. Jesus must become greater, and we must become less. Let’s continue with Part 2 and unpack a few more...
Leadership through the Lens of the Gospel, Part 1
I'm going to say something that may initially sound crazy and counterproductive, but hang with me. I'm suspect of our obsession with leadership development in Christian circles today. This may seem strange since I serve on the board of the Sagamore Leadership...
Trivial Obsessions: How a Missionary Encounter Reordered My Priorities
I recently attended a missionary conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. It's an event that only happens once every four years – like a "Missions Olympics" of sorts – where 400 missionaries and their families gather together to learn, be encouraged, and...
The B4T Canvas: Finance
Step 4 of the B4T Canvas is financial analysis to determine the viability of the business model.
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Your Missions Vision Starts With One Simple Decision
How Proximity Unlocks Your Vision for the Great Commission Twenty years ago, Bill Tibbets had zero interest in moving to Minnesota. He and his wife were living comfortably in Indianapolis when an opportunity to interview for a professor position in Minneapolis came...
The Mission Field You’re Already In
Why Your Marketplace Skills Are Missionary Skills There's a 99.99% Muslim island in the Indian Ocean where no indigenous church existed until a few years ago. Today, multiple generations of believers worship Jesus there. The catalyst? Not a traditional missionary. An...
God Is Not Finished with Sarajevo
Overview Sarajevo is a city marked by the beginning of World War I and the devastation of the Bosnian War. Physical scars still line its streets, and memorials call its people to remember lives lost. But beyond the visible damage is a deeper reality—Sarajevo is a city...