As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered these words I wrote nine years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. I hope it encourages you. Momentary affliction is our current reality, but resurrection is our eternal promise. And resurrection dawns in the...
Do you find yourself striving for success, looking for certain markers to prove that you have arrived? What if everything you thought about success, achievement, and high performance was skewed? Well in this week’s video, we are discussing the secret to high performance and how to achieve it with ease, but it might not be at all what you are thinking. Let’s dive in.
If there is a mantra of the modern world, it's "be true to yourself." It's the spoken and unspoken worldview that drives so much of our culture today. It can even infect how we follow Jesus, embracing faith as a self-help strategy to live our best lives now....
In the 1987 cult classic The Princess Bride, Vizzini, the Sicilian mastermind, is constantly outmatched by heroic Wesley. Every time his new scheme is thwarted, he looks at his hired henchman and declares with a lisp, “inconceivable!” This happens again and again as...
At the moment, I’m sitting at the table in my apartment, watching the snow fall out my window on campus at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. We are receiving our third or fourth “snowmageddon” this winter and I’m watching the wind blow the snow...
If you've heard me talk about the gospel and the marketplace, you've probably heard about my definitive psychological disorder: Brumotactillophobia. These 19 letters spell out one of my greatest fears – the fear of food touching on my plate. I can't stand when I get...
Today, the question of the age is not “will you be worshipping,” but it has become “what are you worshipping?”
My wife and I are less than a year away from an empty nest. We've known it was coming, but as every "last" crosses our calendar – last parent/teacher night, last high school football game, last school musical, last spirit week – there is a bittersweet reminder that a...
Worshipping God is not just an activity, but it’s a lifestyle. And a lifestyle of worship is not something that lasts for a season or shows up as a passing trend, but a lifestyle of worship is meant to carry us into eternal life.
We don't just honor God and love our neighbor through acts of charity, we can honor God and love our neighbor through acts of commerce as well. This statement usually gets some pushback, and I understand the visceral reaction. Many of us have mentally abdicated the...
Here at the Stone Table, we’re passionate about global missions. Sometimes, that passion can get us a little ahead of ourselves—just like Marketplace skills are also missionary skills. A few years ago, I learned this the hard way. A headline hit the news about a man...
Business Leaders, here are a few things you can learn from the pastors and church leaders in the room. 1. Relational Currency is More Valuable than Actual Currency In the church, relationships are the currency for getting things done. Often, in the business world, we...
Imagine walking into a room this morning, looking around, and realizing, I am the most important person here. I don’t know who that is today. Maybe it’s Adam, whose church in Greenfield is thriving. Or perhaps Jameson, who ran for Congress. Micah, who's running for...