We recognise that money is also mammon, a rival to God for our affections and a threat to our relationships. So we believe Christian business people need to be accountable to their church community for the way they generate wealth and the use to which they put it. We want people to be generous, avoiding excessive expenditure.

Just recently I create a vision chart. The chart contained pictures, scriptures, words, and phrases that represented by goals, dreams, and desires. It encompassed core areas including my career, social life, health, recreation, spirituality, education, relationships, and self care… Although my life was not aimless, I had no tangible road map. I posted my vision chart in a prominent place and each morning upon rising I speak to my vision and tell it to come forth.

Whether or not a wife works outside the home, God’s primary calling is her management of the home. Proverbs 31 portrays her role as preoccupied with domestic duties. “It is a high calling,” says MacArthur, “far more crucial to [the family] …than anything she might do in an outside job.”

In our challenging economic times, the threat of unemployment is real for just about everyone. Here are ten tips to help you prepare for a job loss.

In today’s unpredictable economy, two things are certain: (1) the future is uncertain, and circumstances change; and (2) God is faithful, and He never changes.

When your friend has lost his job, or if he is struggling with identity in a new job, you may not know what to do or say. The first thing you can do is offer hope and encouragement. Sometimes the best encouragement is listening. Listen to your friend and allow him time to vent a little. But don’t encourage self-pity, and be careful of sounding spiritually superior.

Christian business owners say spreading the Word is no marketing gimmick. They say they feel a calling to weave their religion into their business. That can mean everything from banning smoking or cursing on the job to paying a chaplain to be available to employees.

Over the years I’ve found that God has honored every decision I made that was based on integrity. It didn’t always happen right away, but I can trace His faithfulness over and over again in the results of my life.

There are some individuals of the church who return little, if any, tithe or support the other financial needs of the church such as the local budget. This has been their practice regardless of whether there’s a recession. This observation is not meant to condemn, but to encourage. If by chance you might be one of those individuals, I appeal to your heart: Don’t get angry! Pray!

A number of years ago I watched a film about Jim Jones and his People’s Temple cult. One of the things that struck me when watching the film was how they presented themselves as a caring community. When someone came to the church without a job, at the end of the service they were introduced to their new employer. When someone came to church without a place to stay, they were assisted with that. Every week church members wrote hundreds of letters to visitors thanking them for being a part of their service, and what a wonderful church it was.

I can remember people around me shaking their heads and saying how terrible these techniques were. All the time I was thinking to myself, “Are you kidding me? If we did things like this our churches would be bursting at the seams!”

As we become conscious of God’s desire to be glorified, honored, and served with our bodies, we become duty bound to work diligently on removing the bad and building the good habits needed to restore the “temple of God” that He has placed in our care.

Everyone, without exception, needs to study the Biblical ‘how to’ book and use it (apply it) to everyday life. If you follow these keys, read carefully, you will succeed at whatever you try. You will become healthy, wealthy and wise.

The basic concept of marketing is ‘the range of activities involved in assuring that you are meeting the needs of your customers and that you are getting a valuable response in return.’ One major misconceptions of marketing is that it is only ‘advertising your product or service.’ Even though advertising is important, it is only one component in the process of marketing.