In a Christianpost.com article, Michael A. Youssef, pastor of Church of the Apostles, emphasized that a Lifeway study reveals that 53% of Protestant church goers admit that many who know them do not know that they are Christians. Pastor Youssef highlights that “a silent Christian is not a neutral Christian; a silent Christian is a weakened witness. Because truth that is never spoken will eventually become truth that is never seen.” If we go to work with ...
The stories of the Biblical prophet Elisha in the Old Testament book of 2 Kings offer relevant wisdom for our work today. Seeking a cure for his leprosy, the army commander Naaman offered gold, silver, and clothing to compensate Elisha for healing him. Yet Elisha refuses to accept any payment. Seeing an opportunity for himself, Elisha’s servant Gehazi follows after Naaman and makes up a story to get some of the wealth for himself. Upon his return, Elisha confronts Gehazi ...
As Kathy and I toured Richard Nixon’s Presidential Library, we learned a more complete picture on this complicated man and time in history. Many believe Watergate wasn’t President Nixon’s biggest problem; it was the cover up. Some doubt President Nixon even knew about Watergate before it happened. But his lies and deception made the cover up far more harmful than the Watergate break-in itself, destroying his presidency. King David knew about sin and cover ups. In Psalm 32:5, we read, ...
A Harvard Business Review article written by Christine Alemany focused on the changing landscape of customer trust. According to the article, building trust for your brand has become even more difficult due to the differences in information gathering by diverse age groups. Alemany discovered that older adults are more brand conscious and obtain their information from traditional news outlets. Younger ...
As a young boy, I experienced what many called “fire and brimstone preaching.” The preacher frequently shouted about burning in hell unless you came forward for baptism. It was frightening, but also motivating. Eventually, the pendulum began to swing to the other extreme. The love message has become so prevalent in many churches that many people now mistakenly ...
As followers of Jesus, we do have an enemy. The world doesn’t like discussing the devil, but he is real, and amazingly adept at deceiving us. The Apostle Paul knew we need to be prepared for enemy attacks. That is why Paul gave us tools that he labeled the armor of God in Ephesians 6. In the workplace, evil ...
Recently, I was trying to secure a female speaker for our Summit conference. This person told me that she needed to check with her assistant about her schedule. With busy business leaders, it can take weeks before you hear back. In this case, I was amazed when I received a return call 30 minutes later. Although the news was disappointing, ...
In this series, we’re highlighting the enemies of building trust in your business. The final enemy is lack of transparency. Long ago, I went into a men’s clothing store that had no price tags on any of the clothes. While I was shopping, a man asked the owner of the store, “How much are these pants?” The owner quoted him ...
In this series, we’re highlighting the enemies of building trust in your business. The third enemy is omissions. Many businesses had business interruption insurance prior to Covid. Unfortunately, very few companies collected on their policy due to insurance companies refusing to pay for financial losses related to the virus. Many insurance companies lost goodwill with their customers by not communicating ...
In this series, we’re highlighting the enemies of building trust in your business. The second enemy is lies. We were buying a software product for the ministry. It was very important to us that this new software communicate well with another software that we already used daily. Working hard for his commission, the salesperson assured us that they had just ...
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