I just returned from a week in Southeast Asia. It was my first time to this part of the world, and our whirlwind tour with a prolific, Christ-centered ministry that is rescuing young girls from the vile evils of sex-trafficking left my head spinning and my emotions...
When we look at the scriptures the people of God never got themselves in trouble until they began to look to themselves and the powers of this world. It's when there eyes shifted away from God that everything fell apart. This week Erik, the President of The Stone...
Business as Mission is the perfect mechanism for both embodying and proclaiming the Gospel all over the world, but we are seeing unique impact with this strategy among unreached people groups. At its core, business is about adding value to people’s lives, meeting a...
We talk a lot about business as mission (BAM) and how powerful we believe it is in taking the Gospel to the hard to reach places around the world, but we often aren't allowed to share the amazing stories that are happening. This week we got the chance to sit down with...
I was laying in bed late Saturday night flipping back and forth between the Indianapolis Colts’ third preseason football game and other mindless drivel when my phone rang. It was my son calling. From the basement. “Dad please tell me it’s not true about Andrew Luck,”...
The easy to reach places in the world have access to the Gospel, so today we have to go to the tough and hard to reach places. We have to go into all the world to share the good news to all people. This is what we are passionate about. This week we sat down with...
Faith and Work. Business as Mission. The Gospel and the Marketplace. These are all phrases we throw around regularly in our discussion of how the Kingdom of God collides with our day jobs. It’s a big topic theologians and missiologists have wrestled with for...
"Your kingdom come, your will be done" is a very powerful, even dangerous, prayer that can change everything. When we begin to pray this simple prayer God begins to not just change our circumstances, he changes the things that we want. The Gospel is not an outward in,...
This week we asked Stone Table board member, Pastor Rob Ketterling, about the heart of global missions. Rob is the founding pastor of River Valley Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the top missions giving church in the Assemblies of God fellowship. When we hear the...
During the General Council for the Assemblies of God, Erik was able to sit down with a few leaders in the business as mission charge. Their stories are humbling and call us to action in new and important ways. Today you are hearing from a business as mission attorney...
https://youtu.be/9BtAu1qddZs This week we are sitting down with Erik Cooper, the president of The Stone Table to talk about knowledge verses wisdom. After sending his daughters off to college he hopes that they attain knowledge, but seek out wisdom.
https://youtu.be/PFpbuofX2FE This week we sat down with our good friend and board member, Rob Ketterling to talk about how the marketplace is ministry. It's easy to think that only the select few that get to "do ministry" are pastors and missionaries, but that's far...
Since it's released back in July, my family and I, like so many others, have become almost mildly obsessed with the musical Hamilton. It’s a fantastic, really a masterwork, by Lin-Manuel Miranda that brings together pop culture and history and kind of this beautiful...