Today starts one of the two most significant times in our Christian experience. It's Holy Week ... the week Christ journeys to the cross on which he gave his life to save our lives. It also starts the last week of March and the last week of the 1st quarter of 2018. This week has the power to ignite significant…

The process of building, managing, and growing businesses can be all-consuming if you allow it.   There is always something else to do, someone else to call, one more thing to accomplish. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, under-accomplished and not ready. These negative emotions are not from God; they are from Satan himself. Satan would have you believe that if…

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. Proverbs 10:9 Integrity = the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, moral uprightness. Integrity is how you do what you do. It is necessary to build, manage and grow a business that glorifies Jesus, serves people and build sustainable wealth.…

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. Proverbs 12:9 Building, managing and growing a successful business is not for the easily distracted, easily impressed, easily discouraged or easily intimidated.   BUILDING A FOUNDATION ... The foundation of your success is the result of those things you do behind…

You have all been to the stadium and seen athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. 1 Corinthians 9:24. Athletes who win don't just show up on game day to give it their best. Winners practice winning every day.   Practice happens through the discipline of conditioning. -----> Winners condition their actions by working with wise counsel (e.g., coaches). -----> Winners condition their bodies through exercise…

Sustainable success in business requires knowing and understanding the power of "timing."   Money loves deliberate speed, but does not respond well to reckless behavior. The more thorough your plans and strategic your action, the better positioned you are to know the right "time" to take action on whatever comes your way. It's very true that opportunities vital for you…

Focus on the need. God wants us to be fruitful. In fact, the Bible references the word "fruit" more than 200 times and in more than 180 verses. Fruit is what God calls us to produce in our lives and businesses too. A fruitful business is a profitable business, or one that is on track to be profitable by design. A…

  Feeling stuck?   Look around and you'll find the answers you seek in the business (or lack of business) happening around you. Our God is one of intention. Nothing is wasted when you slow down enough to pay attention to the people, situations, words of encouragement, words of disapproval, compliments, complaints, requests, responses and non-responses that are a part…

Are you being intentional and disciplined about praying for success in business? Building a Christ-centered business in a world that seems to reward ungodly behavior requires you to: (1) release your ego and pray for success, (2) acknowledge that lasting success comes only through following Christ, and (3) increase your levels of gratitude for all that God has allowed you…