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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.
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...
Revising the Revised History of Capitalism
Rodney Stark's The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
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.






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