I just read a wonderful and prophetic post that stirred my (white collar) heart over at TallSkinnyKiwi:
God is doing a new thing in this country and those with blue collars will have special honor.
GOD LOVES BLUE COLLARS.
And I know He loves white collars also and has used white collars in church leadership for hundreds of [...]
Archive for April, 2007
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2007
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God loves Blue Collars
Published by 2 years, 10 months ago in Business as Mission and Wisdom. 0 CommentsApr
2007
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Carbon Offsets: just hype or the real thing?
Published by 2 years, 10 months ago in Business as Mission and Environmental. 0 CommentsIt depends…
Joel Makower (a blogger every Business as Mission practitioner should read) writes today about the smokescreen some carbon offsets really are.
Last month, Business Week investigated some offset providers, tracing some of their offset projects to their source, concluding that many of the offsets weren’t “additional” — that is, they would have been created regardless [...]
As Jon alluded to in the previous post, a lot of people have been asking what we’ve been doing to prepare for India. Since we’ve returned from our preview trip, we’ve mostly focused on downsizing our belongings (as you’ve already read) and casting the vision for what we’re going to be doing.
We’re finding that it’s [...]
Apr
2007
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The right foundation
Published by 2 years, 10 months ago in Business as Mission. 0 CommentsBeth and I have been bumping into the same scriptures and concepts over and over in the last few weeks.
From email lists (Ransomed Heart) to books (Irresistible Revolutions) to the conference (Rekindling Your Marriage) we attended this weekend, it’s all about the right foundation.
What’s the foundation? Jesus
Programs, rules, systems, knowledge, and religion — they all [...]
Apr
2007
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Sell everything you own and…
Published by 2 years, 11 months ago in Business as Mission. 0 Comments…move to India!
Lots of our friends are asking what’s happening with the India thing… and our answer lately has been… purging. Right now it’s the thing most on our minds, as we feel overwhelmed by our stuff (see Beth’s post below). Instead of trying to pull off a massive last ditch effort right before we [...]
