FBCA BLOG
According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, “purpose” has become a victim of its own success. Corporations are increasingly expected – by their customers and employees – to be able to articulate their contribution to society… beyond simply “making money.” Patagonia’s “in business to save our home planet” and Tesla’s “to accelerate the world’s…
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What the American Church Must Hear from the Global Body of Christ “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” —1 Corinthians 12:26 This summer at the Baptist World Alliance Congress in Australia, I sat shoulder to shoulder with leaders from Syria, Indonesia, Nigeria,…
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Throughout history (and never more so than today) humans have embraced the mistaken idea that it’s all about them. They try to find happiness and meaning in life and fail miserably. Why? Because they start at the wrong place. They start with themselves! They ask self-centered questions like: “What makes me happy? What do I…
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God is always up to something. That’s not really a secret – the Bible spells that out for us. God is up to nothing less than an all-encompassing reconciliation project (Col. 1:20), and this reconciliation project, which is cosmic in its scale, has also been put in our hands to be worked out in the…
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My Uber driver Duke was turning the corner into my neighborhood. We’d spent the drive from DFW Airport talking about life and connecting over our similarly aged children. Over the course of the ride, Duke had shared about his life’s experiences with me: growing up in Afghanistan, working as journalist supporting the US backed government,…
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I like to fish, and there are lots of ways to do it. Fly-fishing a mountain stream is a precision technique that focuses on a specific target. Tossing cut bait into salt water is a more indiscriminate method that produces a variety of results. Industrial fishing is a whole different approach. Large commercial trawlers can…
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Our “Flourishing Together” journey is a 3-year shared learning experience focused on “living life as God intended.” We will continue to explore the domains of happiness, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, close relationships, financial stewardship, and (our current study) character and virtue. Virtue may be defined as moral excellence. It’s a manifestation…
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So much of life comes down to our habits – those things we do overtime that become so engrained we do them without thinking. When I first moved to Arlington, I needed navigation to go everywhere: church, my kids’ school, a friend’s house; you get the picture. A few years into life here though, I…
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At FBCA, we began our 3-year “Flourishing Together” journey back in January at the Launch Weekend. We learned about the Global Flourishing Study. We were introduced to the 6 flourishing domains and the 12 question “Flourishing Measure.” We heard from Kate Long and Scott Heare about this landmark project and confirmed our church’s participation. …
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