“Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, ‘I gave birth to him in pain.’ Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free […]
May 18 2020
How can you earn your next promotion?
We’ll spend two more Mondays talking about Jabez; as promised, we were going to use some of our stay-at-home time to gain some insights from the life of a man whom God chose to elevate above the mean-average impact level of his own generation, and the generations before and after him. Two verses tell his […]
May 11 2020
If you don’t start well, it won’t end well
For a few Mondays in a row, we’re taking a few minutes to ratchet-back a few millennia to be reminded of the story of a man whose life is recounted in just 63 words (in the New International Version) in the book of 1 Chronicles: “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had […]
May 4 2020
Whose opinion really matters?
If you’ve embarked on a structured reading program, intent on reading through the Bible in a calendar year – using the straight-line approach from Genesis to Revelation – the last few days would have been a real challenge for you – Chronicles. Last Thursday – April 30 – you would have landed on 1 Chronicles. […]
Apr 27 2020
What if mom said you were a loser?
For over 30 years, I’ve been writing this weekly message. My audience – from the beginning – was Christian leaders; most with careers in the marketplace, but over time, that’s broadened to include leaders from across the spectrum of careers in our culture: marketplace, ministry, military… the works. Known first as the Fax of Encouragement […]
Apr 20 2020
What if the majority doesn’t ensure victory?
Are these Hard Times, or what? We’re convening a mid-week briefing called Hard Times Heroes every Wednesday morning, from 7:00-7:15a (Pacific) on the Facebook Group platform (you do not need a FB account to view). Click here to catch the last four in the archive, or to sit-in on Wednesday this week. Join us… Over […]
Apr 13 2020
Will you make the cut?
Fear is the soil into which we sow the seeds of faith, and the fruit of faith – ultimately – is hope. Hope is the nutrition that allows us to manifest courage, and courage stimulates the confidence that allows us to run into the battle with the certainty of victory. Right now, we’re under attack […]
Apr 6 2020
Are you holding on to a Second Bull?
Crises – of every type – have always been the backdrop for extraordinary leaders to emerge from obscurity and find their place in history. As we do everything we can to rise to this difficult moment in our generation, we’re examining the model God gave us from Gideon’s life, c. 1160 BCE. Over the last […]
Mar 30 2020
Heroes, like Gideon, pay full price…
Hard Times Heroes. That’s the way we’ve branded the mid-week devo that Noah Elias and I launched last Wednesday on our Facebook Group platform. (Note: you don’t have to “be on Facebook” to view that. Click here to view the March 23rd Facebook live post without having to “join”.) Here’s the BFO (Blinding Flash of […]
Mar 23 2020
Do you think God’s still involved?
It’s fitting to find inspiration in some of the Heroes who have emerged in the Hard Times. The Master’s Program launched in 1997. Now in our 24th year, we’ve weathered multiple storms that could have been game-enders. From ’97 to ’03, the markets experienced gyrations from the collapse of the overloaded tech sector to the […]
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