We had the honor of hosting 41 Business as Mission (BAM) missionaries here in Indianapolis last week for two days of training with our friends from the BAM Office at Assemblies of God World Missions. We learned together, we prayed together, we laughed together, and we...
In this episode, we learned about the concept of retirement. Not from our typical Western perspective, but rather from a place of understanding that work is not the enemy, that we aren’t just running to the finish line, and that retirement actually isn’t in the Bible!
We hosted thirty-one people at our house for Thanksgiving this year. We setup tables in three different rooms as well as a make-shift football watching zone in the garage. It was a festive family kickoff to the holiday season. There was no tryptophan rest for the...
If we're going to see the Great Commission fulfilled in our lifetime, we have to tackle the crippling power of the Sacred-Secular Divide. This heresy has left so many of us on the Kingdom sidelines 40-50 hours a week, living as if our spiritual life and our everyday...
In episode 7 of the Missional Marketplace Podcast, “Can You Fire Someone to the Glory of God?”, we explored this very question, unwrapping the relevance of whether or not we can “do all things as unto Christ” even in hiring & firing employees.
Often cast as the enemy of all small businesses, elementary schools, and after school programs, the businessman has been portrayed as the greedy Hollywood antihero for decades. However, this unfortunate representation of business, and its leaders, is merely a reflection of its counterfeit image.
I am in Springfield, Missouri this week to meet with our friends and partners in the AGWM BAM Office. As a missions organization rooted in the marketplace, The Stone Table is so passionate about BAM – or business as mission. But if you ask twenty people to define BAM...
Work is not just work. A job is not just a job. Our vocation is a missions field, just like we’ve been exploring through this podcast series, and our vocation is an opportunity to worship God. What an honor it is to simply work!
My guess is that most of you don’t have a well studied, reflective, or overtly taught theology of everyday work. I certainly didn’t. My work theology was assumed, and it’s safe to say I mindlessly inferred at least some of it from Saturday morning cartoons. I call...
In Episode Four of the Missional Marketplace Podcast, we learned the foundations of a good work theology. Erik & Darren unpack what a basic work theology looks like from a Christian perspective and give some insight on how we can live out our lives missionally with this new perspective.
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As I look back at old photos, I realize the true value in life lies in the relationships we cherish. Take a moment to appreciate the people who have made a difference in your life. "You know, when I take time to contemplate the most valuable things that I own,...