Early in our Christian journey, Kathy and I were rationalizing away any thought of increasing our giving. Then God began convicting us. So, Kathy and I made a commitment to increase our giving to 10%, which was a stretch. Then God decided to test our commitment. Soon thereafter, Kathy quit her nursing job to care for our son. Increasing our ...
One of the joys of nonprofit work is to see God working through generous people. Many years ago, Luke was in town and asked to have lunch. During lunch, Luke asked, “How many miles does your car have?” When I replied, “160,000,” Luke said, “Rick, meeting with influential business leaders, you should drive something nicer. Fly to Texas, and I’ll ...
Our “Ask Rick” section on our website invites people to seek counsel about their workplace issues. Recently, Carolyn emailed about her new job at an automobile dealership. After a few weeks, Carolyn questioned whether some of the business practices common to the industry would be problematic with her faith. Her ultimate question was, “Are there some industries that Christians should ...
People sometimes easily send me their thoughts after reading our email versions of Integrity Moments. But it’s far more difficult for our radio listeners to respond. Therefore, sometimes it feels the radio version is less effective. Unless I have encounters like I did recently. The property manager who cares for our building recently stopped me to say, “I walked by ...
This week we’re discussing the topic of Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders pursue excellence God’s way. The world often strives for perfection and personal glory, while an Unconventional Business Leader strives for excellence and deflecting glory to God. A local company was known for providing an excellent service to the community. Their true motive was for God to receive ...
This week we’re discussing Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders are people who cherish relationships. Paul was a business owner who admits he used to be a tyrant. Over the years he developed a philosophy that his employees owed him, and that Paul didn’t owe them anything, but, a paycheck. After working through our “FIRE in the Workplace” study, Paul ...
This week we’re discussing Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders are people with integrity. While the world often focuses on doing only what’s legal, God’s standard is much higher. He desires our ethical decisions to be moral and beyond reproach. A friend of mine had a minority stockholder in his business that had accused him of shortchanging her financially on ...
This week we’re discussing the value of becoming what we call an Unconventional Business Leader. Unconventional Business Leaders are people with courageous faith. Their faith drives their decisions, and also impacts those around them. When challenged by God to deed his entire company over to a foundation to fund evangelism, although this plan didn’t make sense, Stanley Tam took that ...
The Barna Group’s research discovered that 20% of practicing Christians believe that their meaning and purpose are based only on “earning as much as possible so you can make the most of life.” God wants more for us. Yesterday, we discussed that only 8 million people have a biblical worldview at work. That leaves 147 million working without the timeless ...
Opportunities to compromise just this one time because so much is at stake will open paths to more compromise. Integrity is a straight path. Crooked paths, even toward justifiable causes will destroy our peace, our marriages, and our businesses. Abraham desperately wanted a son and couldn’t wait for God to come through. He violated integrity when he impregnated his wife’s ...
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