Posted on November 9, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
October 15th, 2009
Extracted from Darrow Miller’s Memoirs during his recent visit to teach in Peru.
I have been encouraged and gratified by the numbers of people who have come up to me to say that they have read Discipling Nations or have attended a conference, and about the impact that the school of thought has had [...]
Filed under: Business, Church, Culture, Development, Effective Evangelism, Language, Missions, Poverty | Tagged: biblical worldview, Church, Culture, Discipleship, Missions, Vocation, wholistic ministry | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is the final installment in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
The modern evangelical church, instead of providing a worldview that will challenge the tragic impoverishment of the animistic and materialistic paradigms, has largely withdrawn [...]
Filed under: Business, Church, Culture, Economy, Ideas Shapers, Language, Missions | Tagged: Church, Materialism, work, biblical worldview, Culture, dualism, Purpose, Sacred vs Secular, Relationship | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 19, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is fifth in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
In some developing countries you will find men with very long fingernails on their pinky finger as a sign of their disdain for work. Because one [...]
Filed under: Business, Culture, Ideas Shapers, Language | Tagged: Business, Corruption, Leisure, Morality, Poverty, Productivity, TGIF, work | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 17, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is fourth in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
Billions of people in the developing world are also dying to hear this open invitation from the Creator and Savior of the universe. Unaware of their [...]
Filed under: Business, Culture, Development, Economy, Ideas Shapers, Language | Tagged: Development, Economics, greed, Politics, Poverty, work, Worldview | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 14, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is the third in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
Social critic Os Guinness describes the shift away from a biblical worldview in Western societies as a move from a “calling economy” to a “commercial [...]
Filed under: Business, Culture, Economy, Ideas Shapers, Language | Tagged: Career, consumption, Culture, Education, Money, Scripture, Value, Wealth, work, Worldview | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 4, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is first in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
Most adults in the Western world spend half of their waking hours at work. In many developing countries, the number of hours spent at work is even [...]
Filed under: Business, Culture, Development, Ideas Shapers | Tagged: biblical worldview, Culture, Vocation, work, Worldview | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 31, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
I enjoyed reading “Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues” by Stephen Malanga. Darrow talks extensively about the Protestant work ethic that can help impoverished peoples understand the biblical worldview that lifts people out of poverty and toward a culture of beauty, [...]
Filed under: Business, Culture, Development, Economy, History, Ideas Shapers, Language, Politics, Poverty | Tagged: America, Article, Benjamin Franklin, Capitalism, Economics, Materialism, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic, work | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 26, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
Finally, Darrow Miller’s new book is available for purchase and immediate shipment! Through August 31st, you have the opportunity to buy this book at a deep discount of $8.95. Anyone who desires the Church’s deeper impact in all areas of society should own, study, and share this book.
In addition to the long-awaited book, comes MondayChurch.org [...]
Filed under: Art, Business, Church, Culture, Development, Economy, Effective Evangelism, Family, Ideas Shapers, Language, Missions, Politics, Science | Tagged: Business, calling, Church, Culture, Vocation | Leave a Comment »