Joel Plotnek
@joelplotnek
Jesus revolutionary, redemptive entrepreneur, leader in church property & finance, cultural philosopher, muso & writer, advocate for God's economy in our world!
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I’m in a study group exploring the Sermon on the Mount and someone brought up this quote by Robin Meyers. What do you think?
Sacred Cash Cows and the Prophets of Baal – Part I sacredcashcows.com/2022/03/18/sac…
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Sacred Cash Cows and the Prophets of Baal – Part I
A barren land stretched out below from the mountain top with not a drop of rain in sight from where the sky met the sea to the east. It had been this way for years and the country was on the …
Trump’s False Prophets III: Discerning the prophetic voice in Australia sacredcashcows.com/2022/03/04/tru…
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Trump’s False Prophets III: Discerning the prophetic voice in Australia
There were many prophecies in 2020 that Donald Trump would win re-election. And interestingly, many of the prophets that foretold a Trump triumph have now come out publicly to repent.1 Two ‘stars’ …
Trump’s False Prophets II: This is not America sacredcashcows.com/2022/02/18/tru…
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Trump’s False Prophets II: This is not America
2021 storming of the United States Capitol1 Culture is a slippery concept for Christians to navigate and engage. Do we seperate from culture to keep ourselves pure and sanctified from the wor…
Does a false prophecy make a false prophet? There were many prophecies in 2020 that Donald Trump would win re-election. Can the church still recognise a prophetic voice within its ranks and if so, how do we discern our prophets' messages? sacredcashcows.com/2022/02/04/tru…
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Trump’s False Prophets I: How do we know when God speaks?
Does a false prophecy make a false prophet? There were many prophecies in 2020 that Donald Trump would win re-election. Can the church still recognise a prophetic voice within its ranks and if so, …
This Australia Day raises more questions on our identity. Covid has revealed cracks in our Federation as the States withdraw to colonial borders. Why the paranoia of alien invasion and contagions? What past trauma might have possesed us? sacredcashcows.com/2022/01/21/wha…
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What The Bloody Hell Is An Australian?
This Australia Day raises more questions on our identity. Covid has revealed cracks in our Federation as the States withdraw to colonial borders. Why the paranoia of alien invasion and contagions? …
Is It A Wonderful Life? Why we make New Year resolutions sacredcashcows.com/2022/01/08/is-…
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Is It A Wonderful Life? Why we make New Year resolutions
What is it about a New Year that compels us toward new beginnings and resolutions with born again fervour? Why not birthdays which are personal New Years or Sundays, the start of a new week o…
Is Apple TV's Ted Lasso a Christ figure that inspires us to live like Jesus? Or does he represent a Christless Christianity that sells us God's kingdom without the king? Did Ted Lasso do what Jesus would do this Christmas? sacredcashcows.com/2021/12/03/jes…
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Jesus On TV (Christmas Edition): What would Ted Lasso do?
Is Apple TV’s Ted Lasso a Christ figure that inspires us to live like Jesus? Or does he represent a Christless Christianity that sells us God’s kingdom without the king? Did Ted Lasso d…
Yesterday's heroes were the cowboy and rock star. Today's hero is the entrepeneur. Our heroes tell us who we are in the age we live. But can they interpret Christian life and mission? Are apostles also entrepeneurs? sacredcashcows.com/2021/11/19/the…
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The New Rock Stars: How cowboy theology is reinventing apostles as entrepreneurs
Yesterday’s heroes were the cowboy and rock star. Today’s hero is the entrepeneur. Our heroes tell us who we are in the age we live. But can they interpret Christian life and mission? A…
Can mony buy us love? Or make us happy? The Sixties revolution promised love and peace but then sold out to the market. The hippies grew up into boomer yuppies. Their children defined by demographics and brands. Can we still find love without money? sacredcashcows.com/2021/11/12/pea…
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Peace, Love & The Beatles. Part II – Mad Men and the soul factory of desire
Can mony buy us love? Or make us happy? The Sixties revolution promised love and peace but then sold out to the market. The hippies grew up into boomer yuppies. Their children defined by demographi…
We are all children of the 60s, even millenials. A lot happened then that shapes our world now. But the decade that opened with the promise of liberation and peace ended with riots and body bags returning from Vietnam. What happened to the revolution? sacredcashcows.com/2021/11/05/pea…
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Peace, Love & The Beatles. Part I – Whatever happened to the Revolution?
We are all children of the 60s, even millenials. A lot happened then that shapes our world now. But the decade that opened with the promise of liberation and peace ended with riots and body bags re…
Do accidents just happen? Or do we encourage bad driving by designing cars where we do less of the driving? Have we hard wired a consumer ethic into our automated technologies of distraction in our quest for freedom? sacredcashcows.com/2021/10/29/in-…
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In Praise of Bad Driving: Kant’s metaphysics of freedom celebrated by Kerouac’s On The Road
Do accidents just happen? Or do we encourage bad driving by designing cars where we do less of the driving? Have we hard wired a consumer ethic into our automated technologies of distraction in our…
Church authority has devolved from the Pope in Rome to the Protestant clergy industry. The increased fragmentation of denominations in a post Covid church will precipitate a further crisis in church leadership and denominational authority. sacredcashcows.com/2021/10/22/the…
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The Post Covid Church. Part III – The crisis in church leadership
Church authority has devolved from the Pope in Rome to the Protestant clergy industry. The increased fragmentation of denominations in a post Covid church will precipitate a further crisis in churc…
It's not just churches that are dying. Covid will hit church denominations as we emerge into a new post Covid world. Increased volatility will disrupt denominational structures throwing up new challenges for church leaders. sacredcashcows.com/2021/10/15/the…
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The Post Covid Church. Part II – Bursting the old wineskins of denominational structures
It’s not just churches that are dying. Covid will hit church denominations as we emerge into a new post Covid world. Increased volatility will disrupt denominational structures throwing up ne…
What will the post Covid church look like? Emerging trends indicate we will see a divestment of property as church fragments and reconfigures across hybrid networks. sacredcashcows.com/2021/10/08/the…
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The Post Covid Church. Part I – Two emerging trends that will accelerate church disruption
The post Covid church will be hybrid networks dispersed across our cities The number one question for many of us in church leadership this last year has been, what will church look like coming out …
Working from home in Covid lockdown has seen an increase in work productivity. It seems harder than ever to rest when you can't even take a holiday away in lockdown! Have we forgotten the meaning of Sabbath? sacredcashcows.com/2021/10/01/our…
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Our Sabbath Work: Why we forgot how to rest
Working from home in Covid lockdown has seen an increase in work productivity. We seem to be caught up in an endless cycle of work without reprieve. It seems harder than ever to rest when you can&#…
The Divided Church: Overcoming the politics of fear sacredcashcows.com/2021/09/24/the…
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The Divided Church: Overcoming the politics of fear
Welcome to Melbourne. The most locked down city in the world. Us Aussies are a compliant lot, but a year and a half of six lock downs are taking their toll on the easy going ‘she’ll be …
Where were you when you heard the news on September 11? And where are we 20 years later? We have seen the rise of the politics of tribes and rights. And the demand of the people for the return of a king. But which king will save us now? sacredcashcows.com/2021/09/17/gro…
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Ground Zero 20 Years On: 9/11 and the return of the king
Where were you when you heard the news on September 11? And where are we 20 years later? We have seen the rise of the politics of tribes and rights. And the demand of the people for the return of t…
The Matrix has been analysed to death but life in COVID lock down is a good time to re-visit this cyberpunk, sci-fi retelling of apocalypse and ask the question - is there still hope? sacredcashcows.com/2021/09/10/the…
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The End Of Apocalypse: The Matrix, Žižek, and Life After God
The Matrix has been analysed to death but life in COVID lock down is a good time to re-visit this cyberpunk, sci-fi retelling of apocalypse and ask the question – is there still hope? 10 minu…
The almost standard "bad take" on the Syrophoenician woman story ...ignores Mark's Jesus to produce one who performs in a way that suits us..Tthe answer to ethnic chauvinism here is not personal growth through conversation, but about the defeat of evil abmcg.blogspot.com/2021/09/learni…
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