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For InsideWork the question was, “So when’s the last time you heard a sermon on cash flow?”

Not money—not giving or tithing or alms or stewardship or benevolence, but cash flow, receivables, write-downs and balance sheets. InsideWork's Al Lunsford recalls where we came from and points to where we're headed.

Since relaunching InsideWork as a media platform June 30, we’ve given away copies of Seth Godin’s The Big Moo and Eugene Peterson’s The Message New Testament. Look for a new door each Monday from now through August 4, 2008.
InsideWork / Jul 15 2008
InsideWork® grew from the realization that life doesn't have to be fragmented.
Donald McGilchrist tackles the foundational nature of developing a robust biblical worldview.
Learn the joyful, life-renewing difference that screams to be integrated into life.
What do employees need to know in order to do their jobs? Studies large and small show a strong link between performance and expressions of commitment from bosses.
Whether we see it or not, there's an element of imagination in Bible-reading just as there is in reading history, poetry and narrative stories - if we weren't there, we can only imagine what it's like.
The life of the godly is justly compared to trading, for they ought naturally to exchange and barter with one another in order to maintain intercourse; and the industry with which every man discharges the office assigned him, the calling itself, the power of acting properly, and other gifts, are reckoned to be so many kinds merchandise; because the use or object which they have in view is, to promote mutual intercourse among men.
Al Lunsford is convinced InsideWork's most significant offerings are built around helping business people reform their worldviews around biblical perspectives.
For all of us, everything passes through the filter of our worldview -- wherever it came from, however carefully or carelessly it may be constructed and for whatever it's worth...
Jim Hancock / Jan 31 2006
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Glenn McMahan's misfortune in Argentina leads him to make extraordinary observations on why work can be so soulless and deadening. He also shares how to find hope and meaning in the midst of the drudgery.
Many contemporary Christian views about money have lost touch with the historical roots of capitalism, not to mention the essence of what the biblical texts teach about capital and wealth. Glenn McMahan explores Rodney Stark's remarkable book on the rise of capitalism in the ninth century.
Glenn McMahan / Feb 24 2010
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