As Christians increasingly come under attack, how should we respond? In light of today’s volatile economy and nonprofit concerns dealing with everything from charitable giving to Obamacare, the American church faces many serious questions about the future. “We are in a progressively anti-faith environment, and there is a tremendous shifting of churches that really believe …
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Why more ministries are handing over operations to corporate leaders—and why that’s a good thing Not every ministry leader is willing to be candid about the sluggish economy and its direct impact on the church. But Mark Walker, a fourth-generation Pentecostal pastor, likely represents many church leaders when he refers to the past four years …
I have been a pastor for more than 29 years and have ministered to hundreds of pastors and visited numerous churches over the past three decades. During this time, I have noticed often that key marketplace leaders who love the Lord have a hard time connecting to a local church. Because of this, some in …
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In God’s financial system the path to prosperity isn’t dependent on government legislation. Find out what requirements God has established that lead to a pathway of prosperity? The Bible reveals several overarching keys. 1) Seek Him. Jesus said, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” …
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One of the greatest challenges you’ll ever face in the workplace is confronting someone who is sincere, but sincerely wrong. Their absolute belief in the rightness of what they’re doing is what makes it so difficult to change their mind or offer correction. I especially see it when I work with religious organizations and encounter …
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Economist Marc Nuttle explains how Christians can prepare for a great harvest of souls—via an imminent economic disaster that could cripple our nation and the world We may be on the brink of one of the greatest evangelistic opportunities of all time. We know from Jesus’ words that people are waiting to be gathered into …
Watch Marc Nuttle explain the solution to America’s debt crisis.
The following statement from E.W. Kenyon in The Two Kinds of Life, while made many decades ago, sounds a lot like what we see happening today. “The whole human race is facing a New Era. Civilization is in a state of flux. Sense Knowledge has failed again. It has destroyed what Revelation Knowledge has accomplished …
The rising interest of believers using businesses for kingdom purposes isn’t just an American trend. Around the world God is shaping entire nations through the work of on-fire, Spirit-led marketplace ministers. “Son, if I had another life to give to missions, I’d give it to the rebuilding of economic infrastructures within developing nations.” These words …
As Christians, we know God is our ultimate source of provision. Yet even as the job market has picked up in 2012, many of us—employed or not—continue to feel a pocketbook pinch from $4-a-gallon gas, upside-down mortgages and a general increase in cost-of-living expenses. For many, the past few years have been a season of …
Proverbs 19:17 Two of the treasures we can take to heaven when we die are people we have witnessed to and the Word of God we have hidden in our hearts. There is another way we can invest in God’s kingdom here on earth and at the same time add to our heavenly bank account. Today’s reading reveals this way. It says, “He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and He will pay back what he is given.”
God’s economy is not controlled by today’s financial news. Here’s how you can thrive even in the midst of bank failures and a deepening recession. As a nation, we’re going through some tough economic times. Countless people are fearful about the economy, as well as about their jobs, mortgages, foreclosures, gas prices and a hundred …
Proverbs 17:4-5 This proverb shares how God looks at the poor. Anyone who mocks the poor reproaches God. “He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished” (v. 5).
With the stock market plunging, unemployment topping 8 percent and Congress spending nearly a trillion dollars to stimulate the economy, many people in the U.S. have lost hope. The gloom crystallized in March 2009, when the World Bank warned we were sinking into the first global recession since World War II. Nearly lost in this …
For a growing number of businesspeople, the marketplace is a platform for ministry When Debra Coover first visited Dr. Pete Sulack’s office in October 2007, she had been suffering steadily worsening bouts of pain and imbalance for four years. Plagued by muscle spasms and insomnia, she says her feet hurt so badly she often felt …
