We have a passion for unreached people groups here at The Stone Table. Three billion people around the world have no adequate witness of the Gospel, and a major portion of our mission investment is aimed at proclaiming Jesus and planting the Church in these unreached...
Recently I sat in a hotel conference room in Dubai for a three-day meeting with the following list of people: The head of the Russian Pentecostal Church who oversees a Gospel movement that stretches across 11 time zones. The pastor of a multi-site South African Church...
Did you know that until this year, Indiana was only one of three states that did not have a state insect? That changed this March when Indiana Governor Holcomb signed Senate Bill 236 into law making the Say’s Firefly Indiana’s state insect. For me, fireflies stir up...
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have...
If I asked you to join me for lunch with a successful Chinese businessman… A major chicken producer, including all the KFC’s in northern China. An exporter of medical gloves, shipping over 7 billion units his last year in the business. A man who oversaw nearly 10,000...
My seven year old has become a bedtime theologian. All day long its glitter, dancing and unicorns and then magically after getting tucked into bed, prayers said, kisses given...out pops true deep theological questions. You know the kind; maybe you have had a night...
Our jobs aren’t just about making money, they’re also about establishing social status. Some jobs are celebrated and others are just tolerated. But whether you’re a six-figure brain surgeon or you clean toilets at the local Taco Bell for minimum wage, does all work...
Researcher Christian Smith uncovered some fascinating insights while working on the National Study for Youth and Religion at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill a few years ago. When asked the question, “what is the purpose of this life?” a majority of...
On a plane ride home from the Middle East after a month of work with the organization Live Dead, Hayden Mills wrote down his new life’s mission God had given him while on the trip: “My mission is to make Jesus Known in all the world through the creative use of...
I would suspect we have all had an instance of working for or alongside a leader who didn’t lead well. Given no one is perfect, I suspect it happens more often than not. So, what is one to do when your leader doesn’t lead well? Here are a few options: Create an exit...
You know, it’s an interesting season for us here right now. We are in the middle of trying to close multiple large real estate transactions. We’ve got a new assisted living facility that we’re planning for Whitestown (Indiana) and we’re trying to get the economics worked out for the beginning of The Stone Table Campus hopefully sometime next year. And it becomes obvious to me very, very quickly how inadequate I am as a leader.
Some people do stupid things and call it faith, while others sit on opportunities and call it wisdom. There’s always tension between these polarizing sides, so what do we do with it? We need to lean in and listen for God to speak. Just like Peter who asked Jesus to call him out on the water, we need to wait for Jesus to call us. We have to move and get out of the boat…
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.