This is the fifth part of a five-part series of blogs that chronicle the journey of a cohort of business leaders who together pursued deeper relationships with God and the integration of the resulting spiritual transformation in their personal lives into their roles as leaders in their businesses, and ultimately into the culture of their businesses as a whole ...
This is the fourth part of a five-part series of blogs that chronicle the journey of a cohort of business leaders who together pursued deeper relationships with God and the integration of the resulting spiritual transformation in their personal lives into their roles as leaders in their businesses, and ultimately into the culture of their businesses as a whole ...
This is the third part of a five-part series of blogs that chronicle the journey of a cohort of business leaders who together pursued deeper relationships with God and the integration of the resulting spiritual transformation in their personal lives into their roles as leaders in their businesses, and ultimately into the culture of their businesses as a whole ...
This is the second part of a five-part series of blogs that chronicle the journey of a cohort of business leaders who together pursued deeper relationships with God and the integration of the resulting spiritual transformation in their personal lives into their roles as leaders in their businesses, and ultimately into the culture of their businesses as a whole ...
This is the first part of a five-part series of blogs that chronicle the journey of a cohort of business leaders who together pursued deeper relationships with God and the integration of the resulting spiritual transformation in their personal lives into their roles as leaders in their businesses, and ultimately into the culture of their businesses as a whole ...
Undoubtedly, Christians in America should be commended for the growth of missions in the last two to three decades, and specifically the growth in short-term mission trips (STMs). In 1989, there were 120,000 American 鈥渟hort-term missionaries.鈥� This number has exploded to 2.2 million at a cost of $1.6 billion in 2006.[1] This statistic comes from authors Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert in their somewhat controversial book, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor 鈥� and Yourself. The natural question that the authors consider鈥攁nd one that we all should as well鈥攊s whether we are being good stewards of God鈥檚 money and resources with each STM.
The grind of the 9 to 5 work life has perplexed many a believer who sometimes stops to wonder, 鈥淚s this all there is?鈥� No doubt, since the Fall of Humanity (Genesis 3), work has indeed become something altogether different than God intended prior to our expulsion from Eden. Even so, many believers may come to wrongly conclude that work is, well, just 鈥渨ork.鈥� But nothing could be further from the truth. Work matters ...
The Acton Institute is a think tank located in Grand Rapids, Michigan to produce many initiatives connected with freedom of religion, economics, and politics. These three areas of thought and practice are usually segregated, but Acton brings them together. The largest initiative is the annual Acton University, a four-day conference in Grand Rapids to draw the strands together with diverse conversation partners ...
... The topic is work. Something important for all of us, and it鈥檚 one that has interested me in particular teaching already five years now a theology of work course for Biola鈥檚 Crowell School of Business MBA program. Work is also a topic that naturally engages the desire for kingdom impact in the culture, because, as Karl Barth says, 鈥渉uman culture is produced in work. So the Faith and Work movement is right on target for engaging a ready audience in a worthy endeavor. This of course isn鈥檛 the only good of theology of work ...
Poverty. It is no respecter of persons. It is a global reality that exists in Calcutta and Compton; Tokyo and Timbuktu; San Francisco and S茫o Paulo. Poverty is seen in nations and neighborhoods. It ravages urban, suburban, and rural areas. And despite the enormous wealth of some areas, make no mistake: poor people reside in Beverly Hills, Dubai, and Midtown Manhattan. Destitution is not limited to places like Dhaka and Detroit. Quite simply, there are examples of poverty everywhere. That isn鈥檛 to say poverty is equally distributed or equally affecting. In some areas poverty is more relative and sporadic. In other places, it seems absolute ...
In Part 1 we examined how a biblical concern for the poor can be syncretistically mixed with socialist economic ideology in a way that undermines a biblical view of people and thereby hurts image-bearers of God. In Part 2 I clarify three specific bad ideas about people that have had very bad effects on people in hopes of breaking the spell that socialist ideologies increasingly hold on younger evangelicals ...
At the heart of human identity is the fact that God made us in his image. In other words, at the heart of human identity is a reference to someone else. This is a striking reality! One of the foundations of the biblical account of the world and our purpose in it is an indication that we can鈥檛 look to ourselves in order to know what our purpose is. We have to look to God since we are made to be an image of God ...
Over the last year, as the Republican and Democratic voters sparred within and between their respective parties over the best candidate to lead our country from the White House, socialism became one of several hot button issues in our national dialogue (or national shouting match). It was the first time in our nation鈥檚 history that a candidate identifying as a 鈥渄emocratic socialist鈥� garnered so much popular support, particularly among the college age demographic. Of course, this is not the first time that young Americans have been captivated by socialist ideals. With the 1960s and 70s came the Port Huron Statement according to which 鈥渟tudents must consciously build a base for their assault upon the loci of power,鈥� and free market capitalism became a favorite 鈥渓oci鈥� to assault. Herbert Marcuse鈥檚 One-Dimensional Man, a scathing indictment of all things capitalist, became something like inerrant sacred scripture to many budding ideologues. In the new millennium the socialist ethos has experienced new iterations as the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 99%, and, most recently, the widespread support for Bernie Sanders on university campuses around the country. Although Sanders did not procure the nomination of the Democratic Party, he succeeded in revealing a deep affinity with socialism among the millennial generation that will hold an increasing share of policy-shaping power over the decades to come ...
En los 煤ltimos d铆as se ha dicho y escrito mucho sobre Cuba. La muerte de Fidel Castro ha originado un sin fin de perspectivas sobre su legado, sobre la Revoluci贸n Cubana y sobre el bello pa铆s de Cuba en general. En lo personal, he tenido el privilegio de viajar a Cuba en trece ocasiones, de convivir con much铆simos cubanos en diferentes contextos y de hacer una investigaci贸n sobre la educaci贸n teol贸gica en Cuba. Me gustar铆a resaltar que en Cuba ha habido un avivamiento espiritual por much铆simos a帽os en donde el Esp铆ritu Santo ha estado obrando poderosamente a lo largo de la isla. El crecimiento de la iglesia ha sido tal que muchas denominaciones no se dan abasto en la preparaci贸n de l铆deres y en el discipulado de los nuevos creyentes.
One of the benefits of being part of a Christian university is the opportunity for collaboration with colleagues across the disciplines. For theologians this is gold. Questions for integration of faith in science, history, politics, or psychology? I鈥檝e got specialists across campus, all with the same mission, who have been thinking about such things for a long time. One recent opportunity in this direction was participating a colloquium with the faculty of Biola鈥檚 Crowell School of Business. Among many topics opened that day, one in particular has haunted me these days in the interim. It was a question that revolved around a start-up competition the Business School sponsors. Students are encouraged to submit business plans for the hope of some start up seed money to launch. But what should be the criteria for judging 鈥渂etter鈥� proposals? Beyond certain received best practices for the business side, does God prefer some business plans to others? Following is my original Yes and No answer to the question; what comes after is now another rather late Yes for the conversation. God does prefer some businesses to others ...
El evangelio seg煤n San Juan empieza con una declaraci贸n asombrosa que describe el origen del universo y nos da una descripci贸n de Jesucristo: 鈥淓n el principio era el Verbo, y el Verbo era con Dios, y el Verbo era Dios. Este era en el principio con Dios. Todas las cosas por 茅l fueron hechas, y sin 茅l nada de lo que ha sido hecho, fue hecho鈥� (Juan 1:1-3) ...
The title of this post is the exact title of a new little book written by Andrew David Naselli & J. D. Crowley and published by Crossway. This new book is intended for a general Christian (non-academic) audience, addressing an oft-neglected subject: the conscience. Discussions of this topic have been few in recent years, despite the fact that the Greek word for 鈥渃onscience鈥� (蟽蠀谓蔚委未畏蟽喂蟼) appears 30 times in the New Testament (20 times in the writings of Paul). The book is short (142 pages without the appendices and indices). Thankfully, it is also clearly written. One can easily imagine a book dealing with the so-called grey areas being less-than-clear. The authors have done a fine job in making a complicated subject easy-to-understand.
Do you like the idea of Advent candles, but you are confused about how to approach this family time? One of the biggest difficulties in our home through the years has been to find an advent candle reading plan that fit our family. We bought many books, searched websites, and listened to the ideas of others. Eventually, I made my own. I think that the following is a compilation of many resources, but it is what we have used to celebrate advent through the years. It is good for young and old alike, and I believe that it crystallizes the advent story.
En los pr贸ximos d铆as terminar谩 la campa帽a electoral para elegir al nuevo presidente de los Estados Unidos. Puede ser que cuando lea estas l铆neas estemos a pocas horas de las elecciones o quiz谩 las votaciones ya hayan terminado. Independientemente del que resulte ganador, los 煤ltimos meses han sido muy pesados y el ambiente social demasiado tenso en todos los sentidos. Expresiones de desaliento, frustraci贸n o hartazgo se convirtieron en el com煤n denominador para muchas personas que ven con alivio el fin de la larga carrera presidencial.
This was a question posed to me by NBC News reporter John Larson a few years ago. The interview was part of a Dateline episode that explored the topic of Satan, evil spirits, and supernatural evil. As often happens in the editorial process, only a small portion of the 45-minute interview was included in the show. I thought I would share a more complete account of the interview.
Each time I have read through The Chronicles of Narnia I have been struck by some apparent linguistic and cultural allusions to the Turkic-world in C.S. Lewis鈥檚 beloved series for children. Two of these seem beyond any reasonable doubt to be allusions to things Turkic, others seem very likely to connect somehow, and still others feel to the present author like connections, but may not in fact be. As a non-specialist, I list these for the consideration of those who are more familiar with linguistic/cultural influences on Lewis than I. I am a professor of New Testament who happens also to fluently speak and read modern Turkish. Moreover, I genuinely admire Lewis鈥檚 writings. These are my only qualifications. Readers who understand Lewis can research my suggestions further.
I remember sitting in my office with a student who was thinking about moving out of evangelical Protestantism and into a different church tradition. He began thinking this way after he had started reading widely in the writings of Christian authors from earlier eras. After being exposed to various authors who sometimes expressed divergent viewpoints from his own, he became increasingly unsure about whether the Bible on its own was clear in what it taught. He was considering changing to a church tradition that could interpret the Bible for him. Since, in his thinking, we can鈥檛 be certain what the Bible actually means when we read it, we need an authoritative guide. Let me assure you, there are people out there who will gladly tell you what the Bible means if that鈥檚 what you want! Another conversation with a different student also comes to mind. She wasn鈥檛 sure whether she could really give herself to Christ in faith because she didn鈥檛 know if the message of the gospel was actually true. But the more we talked together, the more I realized that she wasn鈥檛 struggling with which truth claims were correct and which were false; she was struggling with whether anyone could know something was true at all. So whenever I appealed to the Bible I didn鈥檛 get any traction in our discussion because she didn鈥檛 think we could actually come to know truth through a written text. Both of these students were struggling with whether the Bible was clear.
鈥淭odos somos Marcos鈥� se convirti贸 en una popular frase en M茅xico y en muchos lugares del mundo. El primero de enero de 1994 el denominado Ej茅rcito Zapatista de Liberaci贸n Nacional inici贸 una lucha armada en el estado de Chiapas en el sur de M茅xico. El subcomandante Marcos era el l铆der de este movimiento que buscaba justicia, trabajo justo y equitativo entre otras demandas b谩sicas. El subcomandante Marcos se convirti贸 en un personaje carism谩tico y enigm谩tico porque ten铆a un pasamonta帽as que cubr铆a su identidad. Para protegerlo y para identificarse con las demandas de este movimiento muchas personas empezaron a decir 鈥渢odos somos Marcos鈥� y de esta manera borrar las diferencias entre esta persona y ellos mismos ...
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