I am a strong believer in the great need for Christian business owners and leaders to begin integrating their Christian faith and their businesses. I do not think enough people are thinking this way, so I write this blog in an effort to get the message out. As part of this effort, I often include [...]
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5 Ways Prescription Drugs And Scripture Are Abused
Scripture vs. Prescription Drugs Let’s make this easy. Below is a list of ways you can misuse prescription drugs. In addition to the explanation for each misuse is a parallel misuse of Scripture. See if any of these abuses hit home with you. 1. You forget to take it. Prescription Drugs – You have the [...]
How Do You Become A Ministry Superstar?
Average is all around us. If you don’t believe me, just take a look around and see what you find. It is simply uncommon to see a superstar, someone performing at levels that most people think are beyond their own reach. Whether you are looking at sports teams, businesses, schools, or churches, average is just [...]
Are You an Impact Player?
An impact player is someone who changes the game when he or she steps onto the court. You know the kind I am talking about. When it appears they may have been injured, the crowd gasps! The team does not want to lose them, even for a short time. These are the players that we [...]
Action Plan – Step 4 In A Strategic Ministry Plan
This is number 4 in a series of 5 posts about how to create a Strategic Plan for Ministry in your business. So far, we have created an effective mission statement with an eternal perspective, identified our potential mission field, and had a brainstorm session about how we will do ministry in the course of [...]
Do You Have Leaderboard Envy?
Imagine you are a NASCAR driver and you are in the hunt for the Sprint Cup Championship. At second place in the chase for the cup, you know you are in contention for the season crown, but as things happen in this final race, you are pretty far behind in the pack while the points [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Pursue The Gifts You Have, Not The One’s You Want
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Christ and the Company Christmas Party
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Why I decided to walk away from the family business…
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What Is Anti-Audience?
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How Do You Become A Ministry Superstar?
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Is It True That God Owns Everything?
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Do You Have An Eternal Perspective?
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My First International Christian Business Conference!
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Are You Brutally Intolerant With Your Core Values?
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Why You May Not Like Tim Tebow!
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