"Are you a rich young ruler?" is a question every faith-driven leader must honestly assess if they are to lead an organization with faithful integrity in alignment with Biblical beliefs, principles, and priorities (what I will call business a better way).
With a deep-rooted identity in Christ, we can begin to find joy, inspiration, and meaning in whatever we do.
Empathy requires vulnerability. Could I be brave enough to be vulnerable? If I wanted someone to rejoice or weep with me, I needed to let people know how I felt. Trust people with my emotions, needs, and mess.
Read MoreHave you ever felt called to do something, and you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt it was God telling you to do it?
Read MoreEntrepreneurship lessons from the owner of Tacos 4 Life, a mission-driven taco restaurant.
Read More“Selling my business and taking home $100M was the worst decision I ever made,” a well-known entrepreneur once said. I was floored. How could this be?
Read MoreYou cannot grow what you do not take ownership or responsibility over the results. If permission makes the next level possible, ownership makes the next level real. It's taking dominion (i.e. dominating/ruling) over the area God has assigned to you.
Read MoreWhen I asked him the question, “What do you want?” he slowly responded with the words: “To paint again.” The slowness of his response came out of guilt he felt because he’d been led to believe that an answer like that was selfish
Read More“You are right. I have to let God paint the picture!”
Now, many years later, the picture that God painted for her is beautiful, though very different and much better than anyone could have dreamed.
Read MoreDisordered words can shape and distort our very identity and our behavior at work. In some sense, we can become who we say we are, which means we need to be very careful how we describe who we are.
Read MoreI believe that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. And I also believe that if we were to examine our hearts and minds, we would find we spend a lot of time and energy often seeking ways to be satisfied (outside of Jesus), looking to things on this earth for fulfillment, and searching for purpose and meaning to all our work and toil—and all our activities.
Read MoreI recently realized the power of fixing my eyes on beautiful things when—on a particularly frustrating day—I hopped in my car, ready to tell God how annoyed I was by various situations, but caught a glimpse of a cluster of trees that were the perfect blend of fall colors.
Read MoreMany of us entered entrepreneurial work to find a sense of satisfaction, meaning, and significance. Eventually, though, we all realize we can’t find those things there.
Read More"Too many times, I feel like a chameleon, trying to figure out what color I must become next to play things safe and prove my worth to others. As a leader, I’m constantly shifting, not firmly planted in my convictions. I don’t understand all of the reasons I act this way, but I know this isn’t the leader I want to be."
Read MoreThough most of us aren’t bowing to statues or poles, we’d argue from personal experience that many leaders’ idol of choice is the idol of our own abilities: a good thing we are tempted to distort into the ultimate thing.
Read MoreWhen we consider the true gospel, it seems as though, we almost exclusively view it in light of our personal lives. So we end up holding two very different, frankly, mutually exclusive gospels. It’s no wonder we struggle to integrate our faith and work.
Read MoreIf you do not understand who you are, you will always be looking in other places for the answer. You will take your questions of identity and self-worth to your job or your spouse or another man or woman.
Read MoreLine your life up against the right guides and they’ll guide you home. Three of the guides I use to line up against are satisfaction, leverage, and maturity. Let me tell you why.
Read MoreThe past 2 years of my life have been a long season of learning a lot about obedience. It hasn’t always (read: rarely) been a pretty or smooth process.
Read MoreConfess your sins to one another talk to each other about what's going on in your life. And that will keep you in a place of freedom.
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