Most people in the world view work as a necessary evil to be tolerated. In fact, our negative view of work has found its way into at least one hundred pop culture radio hits over the last fifty years. From the Beatles A Hard Day’s Night, to Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5....
Our family is a huge fan of the TV Show Psych, where a quick-witted smart-aleck with a photographic memory deceives the Santa Barbara police department into believing he has supernatural crime-solving abilities. My kids can probably quote some Sean Spencer quips...
Raised as a pastor’s son in rural upstate New York, Dave Cooper recalls a unique call for world missions from an early age. “Growing up with my dad as a pastor we always had missionaries around. In fact, they would often stay with us for long stents. I recall even...
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...
Dick Brogden of Live Dead and Erik Cooper of The Stone Table discuss reaching unreached people through missions, and the importance of using business as a vessel to do so.
Do you ever struggle to find meaning and purpose in your everyday work as a Christian? Do you ever struggle to connect your, your faith and your passion for God and for his kingdom with your day job? Well, I've certainly been there and I think countless Christians...
In 2021 let’s be careful of the danger that is workism and evaluate our personal work so that it may honor God.