by Darren Cooper | Sep 8, 2026 | Podcast
You Only Get to See the Next Step My brother Erik runs two organizations in Indianapolis that use affordable housing to fund global missions work. He is the president of The Stone Table. He sits in executive leadership at Community Reinvestment Foundation, the...
by Darren Cooper | Sep 1, 2026 | Podcast
Why Does God Care About Renting Apartments For twelve years, my brother Erik stood in front of a room on Sunday mornings and talked about God. Then he took a job renting apartments. The transition was not dramatic on paper. He had started his career in business, gone...
by Darren Cooper | Aug 25, 2026 | Podcast
Why 48 Was Not Too Late I have heard people write themselves off at 26. Not out loud, not in those words, but in the shrug that comes when you ask what they are working on and they say they missed their window. They have decided the story is already written. They are...
by Darren Cooper | Aug 18, 2026 | Podcast
The Open Doors That Built a Hundred Million Dollar Mission The man across from me quit his first real job over lunch. He did not agonize over it. He did not run a five-year projection or wait for the perfect quarter. He sat across a table from one of the partners,...
by Darren Cooper | Aug 11, 2026 | Podcast
The First Domino That Ends the Waiting There is a thing we do in the Midwest that Bryan Neale swears the rest of the country will never understand. A car gets stuck in the snow. Three or four people appear out of nowhere, put their hands on the bumper, and start to...
by Darren Cooper | Aug 4, 2026 | Podcast
You Will Never Be Ready, So Stop Making That the Requirement I want to tell you about a man who used to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, sweating, certain that the sound outside was a tow truck coming for his car. His bed was on the floor. There was no frame, because...
