Below are some of our favorite resources to continue digging into how faith, work, and entrepreneurship come together to glorify God.
FAITH DRIVEN ENTREPRENEUR VIDEO SERIES
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RIGHTNOW MEDIA AND FAITH&CO.
Entrepreneurs have a unique opportunity to step into a purpose that is aligned with who God is and how God has made them. Everywhere we look, we can see God using faith-driven entrepreneurs to bring order out of chaos, solve problems, seize opportunities, and create dignity and opportunity for those who interact with startups of all sizes.
The Top 100 Video Stories of Faith Driven Entrepreneurs
There’s nothing like an authentic story. It has the power to inspire and validate what God is doing in a powerful way—practical, inspirational, but not prescriptive. We’ve hunted, gathered, and collected the top video stories. Our hope is that you’ll watch these and realize you're a part of a larger community of entrepreneurs driven by their faith.
God is at work around the world. You’re a part of a movement of God’s people. May these videos encourage and inspire you on your journey. Join us as we countdown the top 100 videos this Summer.
The Praxis CoursE (And EVERYTHING ELSE PRAxis!)
Praxis has a great video & discussion series on redemptive entrepreneurship for founders, innovators, and creators that you don’t want to miss. Go through it as an individual, group, theres a lot of options to dive in … And it doesn’t stop there. Praxis has a regular journal where they’re sharing thoughtful conversations and ideas coming from their network.
Faith & Co Study Guides
Out of Seattle Pacific University, Faith & Co. Business on Purpose is an educational and formational experience that will deepen connections between your faith and work. It offers education through an open online course, a group study guide, and short business documentaries.
Your Church's Video Library in RightNow Media
Many people don’t know there’s dozens of great video Bible Studies that tackle the issues of Faith, Work and the pressing questions for Faith Driven Entrepreneurs. RightNow Media (The Netflix of Video Studies for the Church) has brought all of them in one place among their library of 20,000 videos. If your church has an account, you have access to these for free and can consider using them in your small group. Here’s a few of our favorites.
Theology of Work
The vision of the Theology of Work Project is that every Christian be equipped and committed for work as God intends. A Christian approach makes work more meaningful and productive, benefits society and the people we work with and for, gets us through the challenges we face on the job, draws people to Jesus, and brings glory to God.
The Theology of Work Project (TOW) is the deepest, largest, and most trusted source of biblical, theological, and pastoral material related to work.
Venture Academy
Venture Academy is a faith-based video course with Harvard Business School cases and 190+ videos broken into mini-courses. This resources comes to us from the recommendation of Wade Myers (an investor with Eagle Ventures and Boldmore), and he also recommends Startup Financial Model, which is a business planning tool that has been used by entrepreneurs in 90+ countries.
Made to Flourish
After years of pastoral ministry, Tom Nelson realized, with regret, he spent the majority of his time preparing Christians in his church for Sunday mornings, neglecting the rest of their lives as workers and participants in the economy.
If God created us as whole persons — persons who live, move, and have our being in a physical world with physical bodies and spiritual needs — our faith converges with our places of work. The sacred and the secular also converge, and God cares about how we live both our spiritual and physical lives.
Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey
They help business owners become better leaders. Their membership community equips you to grow yourself, your team and your profits.
The Nashville Institute for Faith and Work
NIFW is dedicated to helping individuals and groups integrate their Christian faith into their day-to-day work in a way that brings about human and organizational flourishing in Nashville and beyond. NIFW provides multiple programs for influencers across a variety of industries. Among these programs is Gotham, a nine-month intensive leadership training that helps individuals bridge the sacred-secular divide in their work and answer the question, “How does my work matter to God?”.
NIFW also offers an Entrepreneur Support Group that provides confidential time with other CEOs, a pastorally-trained executive coach and a curriculum focused on Christianity and entrepreneurism. Receive event updates by following them on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
make it happen - bring your idea to life
Is it possible that God has put an idea in your heart, and you can't identify the next step? Perhaps entrepreneurship is your next step.
Featuring insights and advice from 30+ Christian entrepreneurs, this course is designed to highlight seven key concepts essential to your entrepreneurial success. Join Dr. Robert Harp in Make it Happen, where he'll guide you through the following topics:
Making Failure your friend
Embracing Prayerful Risk
Collaboration is God’s Design
Planning well, and then Taking Decisive Action
Sustainability is the Secret Sauce
“Abiding in Christ” is Where the Strength Comes From
Faithfulness to God is the True Measure of Success
Biola Center for faith, work and economics
Talbot School of Theology’s Center for Faith, Work and Economics exists to equip churches to help Christians live integrated lives – at home, in their communities and in the workplace.
Building upon biblical truth and strategic thinking, The Talbot Center for Faith, Work and Economics is resourcing local churches with work and vocation theology, strategies, tools and plans in order to transform the local church, its people and the communities in which they live and serve.
Wheaton Center for Faith and Innovation
The purpose for the Center for Faith and Innovation is to develop Christian marketplace leaders through theology and liberal arts research to create innovative solutions for business.
WorkMatters
Workmatters believes that God can and will use Christians in the marketplace to see his kingdom come all over the world. They believe that this will happen as career-minded Christians understand and live God’s purpose for their work. Their deep desire and ambition is to equip one million career-minded Christians in 10,000 companies by 2025. Leaders reach companies, and companies can reach the world. In reality, it’s one person at a time, one company at a time. Are you next?
The Purposed worKING Blog
Ask Yourself, “What would be the most meaningful, long-lasting and important things you could do with the 40 (or more) hours of the week spent in the office, working?” How do we make our work also our “Kingdom Work”? God, has put us all here for a life purpose, our work included. Ours is the challenge and the opportunity to match ourselves to His purpose in our work. If we do so, expect a more fulfilled and aligned life.
This blog (started October 1, 2008) is published Monday-Friday (except for U.S. Holidays) and is written for you as an added resource to assist in bringing God’s glory to the work you, and we all, do!
Triventure
Courses. Coaching. Capital.
Triventure was created to address a major challenge in the BAM space. By integrating top-of-the-line training Courses, unsurpassed Coaching, and much-needed Kingdom Capital, BAM enterprises will be built and accelerated the right way.
Repurposing Business
The Repurposing Business Transforming Society® community, led by Brett Johnson, consists of thousands of businesspeople around the world who have trained in how to get a business into God’s business, and have “repurposed” over 400 businesses in the US, SE Asia and Africa. Their in-depth equipping empowers businesspeople to integrate faith-principles into all aspects of operations, and to strategically use business to transform society.
Denver Institute for Faith & Work
DIFW is a network of churches and professionals who came together to dream of what a broader vision of the gospel might look like for their own lives and for the city of Denver. It aims to fill the gap between faith and work, public and private, church and city. Its guiding principles are: think theologically; embrace relationships; create good work; seek deep spiritual health; and serve others sacrificially.
Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles
They are dedicated to transforming our relationship to work, fostering human flourishing and renewing Los Angeles. CFWLA provides workshops, courses, an intensive nine month fellows program and annual conferences all designed to enable theological + spiritual formation, creation of rich transformative community, and initiation of concrete expressions of cultural renewal in the greater Los Angeles area.
His Way At Work
His Way at Work is inspiring and helping Business Leaders to improve their workplace by having God at the center and caring for people as He did to create Eternal Value. They have been collecting and sharing Faith-At-Work best practices for over a decade.
The De Pree Center
The De Pree Center exists to serve marketplace leaders so they might live intentionally and wisely as disciples of Jesus in every part of life, including their daily work. They do this by providing biblically based, practical resources for marketplace leaders and churches who serve them.
enterprise stewardship
Enterprise Stewardship creates a high impact on business practices using the ES strategic framework and proven tactical tools.
They view business as an enterprise; an important project requiring effort, innovation and risk. Additionally, they believe that it should be guided by a steward; a person who is entrusted to faithfully manage the property of another.
They believe that as Christian business leaders, our role is to steward important, innovative, and world-changing projects we call business.
Surge Network
Surge Network is a movement of local churches putting Jesus on display as they equip servant-leaders to be rooted in the gospel story, sent to bless the world.
Salt&Light (Singapore)
Salt&Light was born as a platform to facilitate marketplace unity in Singapore and the region. And to root it in the principles, posture and perspectives of a God who set human beings to fruitful work as one of His first acts of Creation.