(The following was originally published at CareyGreen.com.) When it comes to your life and business, what do you HUNGER FOR? In Matthew 5:6, Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Within the business community it’s all to easy to hunger and thirst for lots of things… and righteousness is pretty far down the list. We hunger for success, for respect among our peers, or the next big account. The list of the... Read more
There is a verse in the Qur’an that basically says, “Believe what you want to believe, let me believe what I am going to believe” – kind of a “let’s all live together and everyone be happy” teaching. This was written early on in Muhammad’s dictation of the Qur’an. Later, however, there are verses like Sura 9:29, which says, “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah... Read more
At Lifechurch.tv, Christine Caine recently said, “The Holy Spirit came to give us the power to be witnesses, not to do witnessing. And so we need a generation of Christians that understand it’s not about standing on a street corner to do witnessing, but to be witnesses on the earth. To bring salt and light in the midst of our darkness. That’s what God has called us to do.” So, according to Christine, we’re not to go preach the Gospel,... Read more
(The following was originally published at CareyGreen.com.) In Matthew 5:5, Jesus tells us: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Jesus teaches that we are to be “meek.” But how does that relate to the “go, go, go” / “If it’s going to be, then it’s up to me” mentality that business can often foster? There is a principle there of “you reap what you sow”, which is true. But this principle that Jesus instructs of “blessed are... Read more