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10 Attributes of a Humble Leader

Posted in Bible, Faith and Work, Humble, Servant Leadership, Serve, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

All of us want to be humble leaders. It sounds good. It sounds right. But pride is a mighty warrior. It fights for the enemy. And we so easily fall prey to the enemy. Some of us seem to be born with more humility than others. Some of us have great mothers or fathers that [...]

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“How To” Tips for Relationship with God at Work

Posted in Bible, Faith and Work, Fast, God, Prayer, Serve, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Small Groups, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

For those of you that could not attend the WorkMatters Eight to Five event in early September, here are some tools to help you on your faith@work journey. This month we are focusing on the first and most important of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work – RELATIONSHIP. Here are seven simple “how to” tips to help you [...]

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1 + 1 = 2

Posted in Balance, Bible, Faith and Work, Family, Marriage, Prayer on March 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »

We get so strung out with the incredible pace of our lives. I am living through that right now. I just got off the phone with a business leader expressing the same anxieties and frustrations. Our work is demanding and full of pressures. We strive to be the best husbands and wives possible. Many of us have [...]

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Inspiration

Posted in Bible, Encouragement on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Do you need this for your work today? I know I do… “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and [...]

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Raising Sheep

Posted in Bible, Purpose on September 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »

…not a particularly spiritual job, is it? Do you ever feel that way about your job? You may not read the book of Amos very often. I know I don’t. But Amos, as a simple Shepherd, became a channel for God’s message to others. Your job may not make you feel all that spiritual. You [...]

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Daniel Leadership

Posted in Bible, Economy, Faith and Work, Heaven, Honesty, Integrity, Leadership, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I have been blessed to build a friendship over the past few years with a business leader who “gets it” about as well as any I know. Donnie Smith, new CEO of Tyson Foods (located here in northwest Arkansas), has worked at Tyson Foods for 30 years. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a feature interview [...]

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Making “Perfect” Decisions

Posted in Bible, Jesus, Planning, Plans, Prayer on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Ok, let’s go deep today. In your work, you make many decisions every day. You contemplate strategies for the future, right? Jesus gave us a couple of great examples why… Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough [...]

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Seeing the Cross

Posted in Bible, Jesus, Prayer on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Guest Blogger Blair Johanson, Partner, Johanson Group Recently, I was traveling east on Interstate 40 between mile markers 27 and 28 on the way to Little Rock, AR for a late-morning business meeting.  If you know this stretch of the interstate highway, you are probably familiar with seeing a large cross in a small clearing [...]

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Seize the Day!

Posted in Bible, Death, Faith and Work, Influence, Integrity, Leadership, Missions, Relationships, Servant Leadership on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I know this sounds strange, but I sometimes take notes at a funeral. It seems it is a time where all that is good, all that is important, all that transcends a life…gets shared by people who care the most.  Yesterday, we celebrated the life of Carl Carpenter, whose son Rick is a close friend of [...]

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When God Closes a Door…

Posted in Bible, Job Search on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It is amazing how a relatively obscure verse in the Bible can mean nothing one day, and then say something so specific and clear to you the next. Such was the case with these two verses below from Acts: Then coming to the borders of Mysia, they headed north for the province of Bithynia, but [...]

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