Faith and Work - The Stone Table

Our Everyday Work: An Opportunity to Partner with God

by Erik Cooper | Jun 21, 2018

We visited Hoover Dam today. Nothing can mentally prepare you for the sheer size of this engineering masterpiece. There is enough concrete in the dam structure to build a 4-foot wide sidewalk around the equator of the earth! That’s a lot of cement. As we toured the...

When Titles & Dreams Didn’t Matter

by Karen Cooper | Jun 19, 2018

Today’s guest feature from Karen Cooper focuses on the legacy left by her father. His Depression-era faithfulness to the Lord showed clearly through his everyday work, a forced career-path many today would find disappointing and difficult to embrace. Join us as we turn back the pages with Karen to see what faith and work lessons we can learn from the Greatest Generation.

But Money Is The Root Of All Evil…

by The Stone Table | Jun 14, 2018

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...

Work, Identity and Suicide

by Erik Cooper | Jun 12, 2018

It’s been a tough week. The world lost two famous faces to suicide – fashion designer Kate Spade and culture and travel television host Anthony Bourdin. Coincidentally, the CDC just released new statistics showing suicide rates have increased 30% in half the states in...

The Joy of Work

by Susan Rozzi | Jun 7, 2018

People so often think of work as a burden. But work is everything I do from the moment I get out of bed to the moment my head hits the pillow at night. My work includes loving my husband, taking care of our home, praying for our kids, volunteering, exercising, running a business, being a listener and (sometimes) an advisor, enjoying time with friends, and, even, watching a few TV shows.

This is the work that my heavenly Father has set out for me to do. Every part of me is being used every day to work in some way.

VIDEO: How does your work in technology fulfill The Great Commission?

by Darren Cooper | Jun 6, 2018

If you struggle to find meaning in your work maybe it's time to shift your perspective and begin to see your work through The Great Commission. Your work is important even if you are not a pastor or a missionary. No matter what field you find yourself in, we need...

A Power Much Greater Than Willpower

by Erik Cooper | Jun 5, 2018

Our everyday work is actually a response to God’s lead and surrender to His will. That’s the fuel. If we want more power in our everyday work, we need to stop trusting so much in our own human willpower and place our dependence where it belongs – in the finished work of Jesus.

Called- One Young Woman’s Journey To Living On Mission in the Big & Little Things

by Ericka Bethel | May 31, 2018

Sometimes God has to take us halfway across the world to remind us he can also use us right in our backyard. Christa Hitchcock was raised in the church but it was in middle school that her faith became very real and her journey to live missionally in the place God put...

The House Where Grace Lived

by Erik Cooper | May 24, 2018

Today's feature is a creative story surrounding the “work underneath our work". This story is a beautiful illustration of how Jesus came to do the work we can’t do for ourselves so that our work can become what it was designed to be. Maybe you too have taken a journey...

An Unlikely Partnership- God’s Purpose for Human Work

by Brian Hudson | May 22, 2018

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....