I made a new friend recently. During our conversation, he told me about his decision to walk away from a very successful business because he felt God calling him to something different. He did not know where God was calling him, but he knew he had to follow. I think you can draw inspiration from [...]
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The Journey Begins…
This is the last in a series of 13 posts that describe, from the beginning, our ongoing journey to integrate our Christian faith into our family automobile business. This series of posts lays the groundwork for the context of this blog. This final post wraps it all up and gets it started at the same [...]
How God Led A Complete Overhaul of Our Business
This post describes what is probably the toughest change I have ever made to the business. While the decision to make this change truly was an easy one, the execution of it led me through the worst months in my memory. Want to know more? Of course you do! I mentioned two sources of godly [...]
3 Sources of Godly Wisdom
I made the decision to turn my business over to God. I was going to run it as a Christian business with an eternal purpose. Now what? What does that really look like? To tell the truth, I had no idea what a Christian business was or what it looked like. I did not even [...]
An Effective Offsite Brainstorm
After reading Loving Monday by John Beckett, I was blown away at the various ways he was able to integrate his Christian faith into his business. I began to think about how I could do the same thing with our business. As I prayed about it, I began to get a flood of ideas about how to integrate [...]
God was bringing change!
I was sitting in Kansas City, MO at a Promise Keepers conference. I was early because I wanted to get a good seat. My brother was sitting next to me and I was feeling good! He and I had a heart-to-heart talk the night before and I had confirmed that he is indeed saved and [...]
Are you listening to God?
As I mentioned in my last post, I had been actively searching for my purpose for a couple of years (’01-’03). I was doing everything I knew to do in order to allow God to speak to me. I was studying His Word, praying, participating in Bible studies, leading others in Bible study, teaching, etc. [...]
Get your fortune here!
Between April 2002 and the fall of 2003, I continued to go through the Impact Discipleship study and take others through it as well. I continued studying God’s Word on a daily basis. I started journaling on a regular basis. I was reading everything I could get my hands on in an effort to find [...]
I do not have the gift of evangelism!
I have always feared being called to be a missionary or even worse, a street corner preacher. Before you get mad, I am NOT saying there is anything wrong with either of these…I believe both are called and used by God. I was simply afraid it would be me! All of my life as a [...]
Life in a Dixie plate?
Last time, I began to tell you about another crucial step in this journey – one that changed everything for me. This crucial step was my participation in a small group discipleship study called Impact Discipleship. The material was written by Ken Adams, pastor of Crossroads Church in Newnan, GA. This is the study brought to our dealership by [...]
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