Make Room for Healing and Joy
Don’t Hold on to Things You Shouldn’t We’ve all found ourselves in unpleasant situations. Places where we feel trapped. Sometimes it’s because of things we’ve done. Sometimes we’re there due to no fault of our own. The Israelites found themselves in bad situations repeatedly. They would go through times when they would be captives of […]
Core Values are Where Success Begins, Part 2
They Will Help You Avoid Wandering Core values are the foundation your life and business are built on. Last week I gave you a brief definition of what my first six core values mean to me. This week I’ll do the same thing with the final six. Here are the final six: Build the wall […]
A Straight Path is the Shortest Way
This Can Be Hard in the Wilderness In geometry, a straight line is the shortest distance between two points (on a flat surface). When going from point A to point B, on a map or in life, it’s rare that we can go in a straight line. In this case we want to find the […]
Core Values are Where Success Begins
Without Them You Just Wander The past several weeks we’ve been digging down in the dirt and discussing who you are. Who you are is the ground that your business is built on. That ground is what supports the foundation of your business. The foundation is your core values and principles. Last week I shared […]
A Story is a Good Way to Tell a Story
It Makes the Message More Real Stories are a way to relate to information in a more personal way. We can connect and feel stories. It taps into our emotions. It’s a way to make things more understandable. The Bible is a collection of stories. These were stories that people then could relate to. We […]
Build Your Business on a Solid Foundation
Your Core Values are the Building Blocks Over the past several weeks we’ve discussed the importance of a solid foundation for building a successful business. We talked about the ground the foundation is set on is who you are and how you can know your why. This week we’re going to go back to the […]
Who Sits on Your Throne?
It’s Up to You Too often we think we know what’s best. We want to be in control. We’ve got this. We do have the power of choice. We just need to use this power wisely. Problems begin to arise when we compare ourselves and our situations to those around us. Especially when social media […]
Knowing Your Why is the Key to Unlocking Your Success
How Do You Know When You’ve Found It? The past couple of weeks we’ve been discussing the importance of building your business on a solid foundation and what this looks like. Last week, we explored how your why is what the foundation sits on and ways to find your why. Your “why” is who you […]
What it Takes to be Transformed
It Takes Time and Work We were blessed to have a group of young people from Friends University lead our worship service this past Sunday. The message from Miles was great. He’s a pitcher on the baseball team at Friends. He shared that he wanted to pitch harder and faster. To do this he needed […]
Building Your Business on Solid Ground
Finding Your Why Last week we discussed the importance of building your business on a good foundation. And, how this can help you withstand the trials of business. We also talked about the importance of knowing what that foundation was built on. Is it dirt, sand, or rock? This gets down to who you are […]