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Hey, is your workplace culture such that many are “puttering around” on priorities that are secondary or even unimportant? Perhaps even your CEO is just “clocking time.” Or is your leadership team fu…
The official term “content marketing” from the American Marketing Association could well have been written after having read and embraced the New Testament! But is the mindset of many Christians trul…
Have you ever heard about that famous German pastor who was pitted against Hitler in the 1930s? Now I’m not talking about Dietrich Bonhoffer—no, I’m talking about Pastor Paul Schneider, one the great…
So, is Walmart “good” for America or “bad” for America? Well, many millions of people freely vote “for” Walmart every day, choosing to spend their hard-earned money there—they are fans! But Walmart h…
Hey, do you feel like you are more of a workhorse or more of a racehorse in your daily life? Wait, let’s be more specific: do you often feel like an unappreciated or at least underappreciated workhor…
Have you been significantly burned by relying on an “expert” in your finances…your health…your theology? Let’s face it, we live in a very complex, interdependent world where we can’t possibly know ev…
Did you know that one simple rainstorm in the Colorado Rockies can drop some rainwater that heads to the Pacific Ocean and also some rainwater that heads to the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles away…
So, how’s your “vertical relationship” with the Most High God? Well, the Biblical model—both Old Testament and New Covenant—is that the strong God-follower uses the God-vertical relationship to ancho…
What do you know about the historic “Silk Road” that was active from Europe to China and back again for many centuries? What about the modern-day “Belt and Road Initiative” by China? How does all tha…
Modern marketing in extraordinarily-effective consumer-saturated societies relies very heavily on “the nodes.” Just what types of nodes are those? And can we see parallels to the Internet’s structure…
Ever heard of Ralph Peer? Very likely not. But in very particular ways, Ralph Peer’s life’s work impacts every person who listens to popular music. Peer didn’t do just one major “thing”—he is highly …
So, what does God say about “increase” in the Bible? Well, a whole lot! That’s because God is so big on active stewardship, both His and ours…and that’s true when it comes to our family and to our gi…
Hey, have you ever considered becoming a franchisee in a successful franchise operation, perhaps like Chick-fil-A? There could be amazing fruits that come from that. But there are many franchise oper…
Is your church more like Antioch, the evidence-based, missionary-sending church of the book of Acts…or is it more like the famous saying about the famous fictional community of Lake Wobegon—where the…
It’s Walmart again, showing the way to be a strong steward of all “the little guys” in a robust system of free-markets capitalism! Now, does that sentence intrigue you…or perhaps grate on you? Well, …
So, Abraham clearly walked with God, modeling a life of faith for each of us as believers, so much so that we can be called the children of Abraham (Galatians 3:7). But what are key distractions to a…
Modern-day supply chains and markets have been dramatically impacted by entrepreneurs’ visions that were stimulated by advances in technology—just take a look at Google and Amazon! That’s evidence of…
Every day in a modern economy, we participate in a whole lot of what marketers call “bundling,” whether we fully realize it or not…from buying a combo meal at a fast food place to buying a laptop wit…
Ever heard of Ralph Carr? Didn’t think so. Well, Ralph Carr had a biography written about him that was titled The Principled Politician. So, what’s the story about that, and how can Carr’s story inst…
When it rains, it pours! Remember that old saying? The high inflation in the U.S. and Europe at the time of this crafting of this podcast episode is an example of that. And, yeah, it’s a real bummer …