Extreme Stewardship

How do we use the tool called money? Prioritize proximity. Prioritize Necessity. Prioritize Probability.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

Fruit, Seed, and Weeds. What kind of work is your money doing?https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

There's no such thing as the right (or wrong) amount of money.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

Where does money fit into our theology of work? Is it a good gift from our Creator, or is it a lordless power and the root of all kinds of evil? Yes. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Ryan and Tafilowski and David Buschart's book Worth Doing, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about David Jensen's book Responsive Labor, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Larry Peabody's book God Loves Your Work, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Jordan Raynor's book The Sacredness of Secular Work, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about David Bahnsen's book Full-Time, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski's book Faithful Work, which you can purchase here.

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Doug Wilson's Book Ploductivity, which you can purchase here. 

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about John Mark Comer's Book Garden City, which you can purchase here. 

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/This episode is about Tim Keller's book Every Good Endeavor, which you can purchase here. 

https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/1. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to tell a four-part story: the goodness of work, the corruption of work, the redemption of work, and the restoration of work.2. If you're going to have a theology of work, you also need to have a theology of rest.3. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to quote Dorothy Sayers.4. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to talk about being made in God's image.5. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to reject the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred. 6. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to name quality as a virtue. 7. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to name both the intrinsic value and the instrumental value of work.8. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to name the overlap between work and worship. 9. If you're going to have a theology of work, you need to see work as love for neighbor.  

God has only one mission. He's always had that mission. His strategy and tactics vary, but his mission stays the same.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

The doctrine of the Trinity and the Commander's Intent. It matters. It really does.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity: https://www.ivpress.com/delighting-in-the-trinity-2012

Greek words for love and how God doesn't need us. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.gnu.edu/

Mission, Strategy, Tactics, and the fact that 613 laws is not very many. 

It's time to take some extreme stewardship and get off the crazy cycle. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/

It's really dumb to hide from God. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/And check out Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book Creation and Fall.

Why doesn't work always work? There's no one to blame but us. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/And check out Cornelius Plantinga's book, Not the Way It's Supposed to Be. 

Work is good, God is not Marduk, and some versions of the Eisenhower Matrix are bunk.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/

Labor Day. A fitting day for an episode on how labor happened in the first place. Genesis 1. Five kinds of questions. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/

If we ask the right questions, the answers will take care of themselves.https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/

Nothing matters more than our commander's intent. How do we figure out what that is? We ask the right kinds of questions. https://www.kibbeconsulting.com/https://www.goodworkconference.com/

I don't rest, becase I think I am God. I am wrong. 

This episode is about how to navigate our own personal rhythms in relation to the rhythms of the world and the people around me.

This episode is about the various rhythms (daily, weekly, yearly, etc.) in which God created us to move back and forth between work and rest.

This episode is about why we, as creatures and as God's beloved children, must rest.

This episode is about all—well, some—of the reasons why we don't rest the way God has invited us to rest.

This episode is about how to distinguish between legitimate rest and illegitimate laziness.

Leadership is a multi-generational undertaking. 

Skill matters. Character matters more. 

Leadership begins and ends with humility. Here are a few more reflections about what that looks like in real time.

Humility is the sine qua non of leadership.

What does Extreme Stewardship have to do with being a leader? It starts with recognizing that leadership means not only getting others ready to do the work, but also that leadership means getting others ready to do the work WITHOUT US. 

This life is practice for the next.

Work can still work, because Jesus is still working.

Work was supposed to be good. What went wrong?

Leadership is recognizing that the game goes on after we leave it.

Think Strategically. Act Tactically. 

Work is good, and so is rest. Laziness, not so much. 

All work is worship. 

Seed, fruit, and weeds. One of these things is not like the others.

God is with us. Especially when we work. 

Work is a good thing. Don’t let the Babylonians tell you otherwise.

Improving Creation 101: make it more productive, more orderly, more beautiful, more virtuous, and more fun.

Creation needs improving. It always has.

God made us so we would improve the other stuff he made.

We can’t use words to communicate if we don’t know what those words mean.