I just returned from 8 days in China with a group of pastors and businessmen. (I’m still recovering from the 12-hour time change and gluttonous platters of Kung Pow Shrimp, so please take that into account as you read this). We spent a week exploring some powerful new...
Recently I passed a life milestone, a major milestone – retiring from my “day job.” This wasn’t like hitting age 40, 50 or 60; those are just numbers. Retiring is a significant life change, one which – as my wife likes to point out – does not affect just me. A...
This is an interview with one of our Business as Mission (BAM) practitioners using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
I worked in the mail room at Word Records when I was in college. I was a student at Belmont University, ground level for a lot of starry-eyed artists looking to break into the Nashville music scene. This mail room gig gave me a chance to rub shoulders with some of the...
The day of my accident began normally, with the early morning sun poking holes through the makeshift shade my husband rigged up the night before. Daylight came early in Honduras so no alarm clock was needed to get us up and going. Our missions team had come to...
This is a story of a Business as Mission (BAM) practitioner on the field using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
It’s August in Indiana and that means corn around every corner. Where the modern world has not yet stomped in to plop down a strip mall or housing addition, there grows corn taller than most men. The farmers rejoice because 2018 has been a bumper year for the farmer...
I was a musician in a prior life. A music pastor actually. It was a beautiful season of life, a season where I was able to leverage gifts for the piano, music composition, and arranging that I had been cultivating since I was a little boy. It was also a season where I...
This is a story of a Business as Mission (BAM) practitioner on the field using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
I went looking for happiness, but she’s hard to chase down. I pursued her through hidden corridors and back alleys, occasionally catching the faint gleam of her beautiful hair blowing in the early morning light. But to no avail. She was there and then she was gone....
Work-life balance can look different to people of different generations. In the past The Stone Table has released videos talking about work-life balance from an older generation perspective, but how do the younger generations view work-life balance?
Struggling with managing both Work and your personal Life? Check out this video where Erik Cooper of The Stone Table speaks with Professor Dean Tibbetts of North Central University.
BAM stands for “Business as Missions”. This means your business acts as a way to reach others in a mission’s way. We challenge you to try BAM and see how God can use your work.