GodIntersections.com Current Best Thinking says:

  1. God is the  Owner of our Life and we are the Steward.
  2. Good Stewards don’t make “Owner” decisions.  They simply do what they can.
  3. If God is the Owner then He gets to decide how our life turns out.
  4. If we need direction from the Owner then pay attention to the Intersections God creates in our lives.
  5. In the absence of God’s direction our Current Best Thinking is enough.  Act on what you know.
  6. If God (the Owner) wants our Current Best Thinking to change it is His responsibility to show us how.
  7. Significance is found in letting the Owner lead and simply loving the person currently in front of us.

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Mark's Meanderings

Hearing God’s Voice

I was minding my own business nursing a particular injustice this weekend when the God of the Universe showed up and provided this thought “Will you let this situation in your marriage make you more like Jesus or more like the world?”.

And instantly a whole line of thinking appeared.  That’s the way it works for me with God.  I used to think I didn’t hear His voice much. I still don’t actually hear much in the still, quiet places with Him.   Then I learned something big.  Telling God when and how He should speak to us just does not work. When I finally stopped using that approach and let Him teach me I learned some fascinating things about hearing God:

What will you do when the Prosperity Returns?

I’m seeing an interesting phenomenon these last 60 days.  Believe it or not meaningful prosperity is returning to some areas of our marketplace.  I know a banker, real estate agent and construction business owner all of whom are having their best year in the last 5.  “Life is good” but they all confess to working harder than they want.  But it is worth is because “the money is good”.

And when I ask what they do in these busy times to keep the Word of God and Spirit of God in the middle of their business they don’t have an answer.

The Two Mandates of the Christian Business Owner

I have been having a running dialogue with “the Big Guy” regarding His desires for the “authentic” Christian business owner.  In my many conversations with business owners on the topic the idea of building and stewarding a Christ centered culture is always talked about.  Christ centered culture is my term for aligning our words and actions around Christ based core values, being leaders of integrity and character, being kind and respectful  etc.  The idea is to “walk the talk”.