This week we’re using the acronym HEAR to talk about four ways to hear from God. The E stands for Engage in God’s Word. God’s Word is our operating manual for our work and our life. The Holy Spirit may speak individual insights to you at times, but God’s Word will teach you time-tested principles that can be applied to […]

This week we’re using the acronym HEAR to talk about four ways to hear from God. The H stands for Holy Spirit. God desires a two-way communication with His children. It’s easy to spend my prayer time on my requests, but harder to be still and listen to the Holy Spirit. Many articles I have written have come from my […]

Imagine being selected to manage a wireless phone store. The first week you leave your boss a voice mail with some concerns. But, when your boss responds you never listen to his voice mail! The next week you leave another voice mail. This time your boss mails you the operating manual, but you never read it! The third week you […]

According to Wikipedia, St. Patrick’s Day originally celebrated the priest who returned to Ireland in 432 AD to bring Christianity to his homeland. Ireland had been a polytheistic culture.   One way Patrick introduced them to Christ was by using the 3 leaved shamrock to describe the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. He made a difference by communicating in cultural […]

Many immigrants came here looking for a job and a better opportunity for their family. This places the workplace at the center of the highly-charged immigration controversy. Businesses, however, desire good employees at a fair wage, without controversy. They prefer peace. Immigration is one of those problems where you can use the Bible to highlight the need for justice, and/or […]

Stanford University researchers discovered that young people may be proficient in using social media, but they’re poor at discerning real news from so called “fake news.” Stanford’s researchers discovered that students often assume that sponsored content posted by biased parties is true, sometimes even more than real news. In one assessment, more than 80 percent of middle schoolers believed a […]

On a “60 Minutes” segment on bike racing, Istvan Varjis, a Hungarian inventor, was interviewed about a small motor that he designed that could secretly propel bicycles forward much faster. He believes that his motor has been used to cheat in the Tour de France since 1998. During the interview, Istvan was asked, “If someone told you they were going […]

Although it’s only one hour, the change to Daylight Savings Time in the Spring often leaves me feeling deprived of sleep and rest. If this is true after losing one hour of rest, imagine the impact my body experiences when God’s design is ignored and I work seven days a week!   When I worked tax seasons in public accounting, […]

In an article titled, “Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices,” the Harvard Business Review highlighted five ways that organizations needlessly provoke good people to make unethical choices. The final way discussed in this article is, “A positive example isn’t being set.” Years ago, I attended a CEO roundtable group meeting where we were surprised to learn that the host CEO […]

In an article titled, “Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices,” the Harvard Business Review highlighted five ways that organizations needlessly provoke good people to make unethical choices. The fourth way is that “Ethical Behavior is not part of routine conversations.” A strong ethical culture talks about ethics even when all is well. Tom Hill, author of “Making Character First” discovered […]