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...
Keep giving to your local church. Perhaps I’m the right one to say this as I have no direct personal upside from the conversation. What I do have is a deep belief in God’s Word, a love for the mission of God in the world, and a network of dear friends leading this...
How do you keep Gospel centered missions at the forefront of your church? This week we talked with Adam Detamore who is the Lead Pastor at Realife Church in Greenfield, IN. We asked him why it's so important for him to keep Gospel centered missions at the forefront of...
The more we pray, the more our desires are shaped by God’s Spirit. The more our desires are shaped by God’s Spirit, the more our requests align with His will. The more our requests align with His will, the more we will see God answer when we call.
The Stone Table was honored to be included for the 3rd time in a vibrant roundtable convened by our friends at OneHope. Pastors, businessmen, and ecumenical leaders from 12 countries on every inhabitable content gathered just outside of Geneva for two days of powerful...
hen I was growing up, there were two major life paths we discussed within the context of our youth group and church culture (that is, when we weren’t debating the spiritual impact of Amy Grant’s crossover albums or whether movie-going became...
hen I left my job in full-time ministry, I thought my pastoring days were behind me. I was trading coffee shop counseling sessions for board room strategy sessions, Oswald Chambers for the Wall Street Journal, pulpits for P&L’s. Who needs a...
A Baptism That Changed Everything Picture this: a single man standing in a small inlet of the Indian Ocean, about to be baptized. It sounds like a simple moment, maybe even ordinary. But this baptism was anything but ordinary. This young man was the first known...
The Lunch Tray That Changed Everything Picture a school lunch tray. You know the one: rigid compartments keeping the mashed potatoes far away from the fruit cup, the main course separated from the dessert. For many of us, this tray has become an unintentional...
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...