A few years ago, our company adopted an unofficial motto: We wash feet. It really stuck. I see it regularly on email tag-lines, hear it in meeting discussions, even see it in pictures and graphics hung around our offices. We’re in the housing business, we’re not...
The Coronavirus has changed everything and it’s stirred up a lot of emotions for everyone in the process. Whether it’s about the health of our communities or the desire to reopen the economy, everyone is talking. As a faith and work organization we wanted to speak up and clarify because what we have been talking about for years is now on full display. That’s what Erik shares in this week’s video.
More than a dozen years ago we were working in a war zone in Northern Uganda. It seemed there were needs all around us. No amount of resources could seemingly meet all the needs that were represented by these precious people. Murders, abductions, mutilations and many...
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said, read, or heard “these are strange times,” I’d be able to take my wife out for a really great dinner; that is, of course, whenever we’re once again allowed to go to a restaurant. Indeed, these are truly unprecedented days....
Earlier this year, my brother-in-law visited a dear friend who lives in the Middle East. They spent a day traveling to historic sites, including what many archaeologists now believe is the actual Mt. Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments. At the base of this...
Our friends at Sinapis are doing beautiful work through raising up and empowering Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs in poor countries around the world. We are big believers that business is vital part of God’s Kingdom work, both here at home and to the ends of the earth....
There’s a scene in the iconic Frank Capra classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey fights off a run on the Savings and Loan. In the chaos that ensues, Bailey successfully talks down a lobby full of panicked customers demanding the immediate withdrawal of...
As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered this article I wrote a few years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. In light of all we are facing right now, all the sorrow, the sickness, the anxiety, pain, and loss, I thought it might be an encouragement to...
Like the rest of the world, I’m wrestling with the emotions of this historical moment we are living through. I ride the waves of encouragement and despair, parsing the data, looking for voices I can trust, trying to find some glimpses of hope as the global war on...
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...
Erik Cooper and David Cooper guest starred on the Daron Earlewine podcast. Hear from them as they discuss the “Ezra Calling.”
What are the two characteristics every leader should have when leading through a season of crisis? Hear from President Scott Hagan, PhD as he shares his advice on this topic of leadership. — Comment below if you agree!
We had the honor to sit down with President Hagan, PhD from North Central University as he answers “How do you see the marketplace becoming part of God’s mission?”