Essays and devotional field guides for the Christian founder — on calling, rest, money, leadership, and building something God's way.
Sometimes quitting is failure. Sometimes it's obedience. Telling them apart is the whole art.
Read the essay →The dividing line between sacred and secular work is thinner than you were taught.
Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's fear that has been handed to Someone stronger.
The way of Jesus turns the org chart upside down — and makes for leaders people actually want to follow.
Fundraising rewards confidence and punishes honesty — or so it feels at 2 a.m. before the pitch.
Fear is a liar with a calculator. Here's how to count differently.
The market will never tell you that you have enough. You'll have to get that number from somewhere else.
Business is not separate from your spiritual life. It might be one of its main rooms.
The lie every founder eventually believes is that they have to carry it alone. It isn't true, and it isn't safe.
Not a formula to get what you want. A conversation that changes what you want.
You cannot be grateful and anxious in the same breath. Try it. Gratitude wins.
Hustle culture calls rest a reward you earn. Scripture calls it a rhythm you're commanded into — for your own good.
God rarely hands founders a script. He gives something better: wisdom, counsel, and His nearness.
You don't need a monastery. You need five honest minutes before the inbox.
Failure tempts you to despair. Success tempts you to forget. The second is sneakier.
A career is something you choose. A calling is something you answer. Telling them apart changes everything.
Compete against the problem, not the person. Envy is a race no one ever wins.
Building a company on a foundation that holds when the market does not.
Waiting is not the same as doing nothing. It's working with open hands while the answer is slow.
Not a list to skim, but a small arsenal for the days that need it — grouped by the moments a founder actually faces.
Paul made tents and planted churches. Two callings, one life — it's an old, honorable pattern.
The term gets used a lot and defined rarely. Here is what it actually means to build a company as a person of faith.
The Proverbs 31 woman ran ventures, traded, and invested. Ambition and faith were never at odds.
The line between godly drive and idolatry is not how hard you work. It's what you're working for.
Your company will happily take everything you give it. Someone has to decide what it doesn't get.
Not eloquent. Just honest. Ten short prayers for the moments a founder actually faces.
You do not hire skills onto a team. You hire people into a family that ships.
Your best witness at work is usually not a speech. It's the way you run the place.
Your business can fail. You cannot fail past the love of God. Those are not the same sentence.
Generosity is not what you do with the leftovers. For the founder, it's a design decision.
Scripture is relentless about this: plans succeed with many advisers. Solo founders are rarely solo for good reasons.
Anyone can be honest when it is free. Character is what you do when the truth costs you the deal.