Practical Lessons for Intentionally Living Like Jesus
Lately, I’ve been feeling a strange tension in my life. I wonder if you feel it too. It’s the tension between my career/external life and my character/internal life. On the outside, my career is flourishing. I’m getting new business, receiving new opportunities, and growing at an incredibly fast rate. On the other side is my […]
I believe our sense of meaning, value, and satisfaction with our daily lives rests on one of two ideas: either we are doing too little or we are doing too much with our days. If I had to guess what the case for you is, I would guess the latter is true. Such is the […]
This is a guest post by Paul Sohn. He started a faith that now has more than 2 billion followers and lasted 2,000 years. Jesus Christ epitomized the consummate servant leader. In fact, leadership guru Ken Blanchard said it best: “The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have […]
“Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.” -Henry Ward Beecher Christians have spent an eternity saying God doesn’t care about the jobs we take. We used to tell ourselves this as justification to not care about our jobs and status more than we care about Kingdom affairs. But a tragic shift has occurred in […]
A fundamental truth about Jesus’ work was that Jesus was giving to people what they needed. Much of the reason His ministry was so valuable was because His work was contributing to the salvation and growth of people’s lives. His work allowed for human flourishing. Today, we live in a society where not every business […]
Recently, I gave a presentation to a group of entrepreneurs in Boston. I discussed JesusHacks being both a ministry and business. Surely enough, one entrepreneur asked, “How can JesusHacks be a ministry if it’s selling its content?” I smiled as I thought: this is a valid question—worthy of a blog post. Can I Make Money […]
The business world has a bitter taste in many people’s mouths. When people typically imagine the business world, they think cutthroat, politics, and competition veiled under the glitz and glam of suits and dresses. It’s tragic many don’t hold this valuable sector of society in a very high regard. Much of this social failure stems […]