Christian Business Insights

Providing 'out-of-the-box' views of Christian Businesses, designed to help you build a powerful business, expand your impact, and grow closer to God in the process.

Are You Seeking Significance? 09/19/2023

Are You Seeking Significance? Too many Christian business people look outside their careers and their businesses for a place or a work that allows them to be significant. This search for something outside of themselves keeps them focused in the wrong place. The real source of significance is much closer to home. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27929004

Three Steps to a Powerful Corporate Culture 09/12/2023

Three Steps to a Powerful Corporate Culture Building a successful business requires serious focus on four fundamental components. Those include the three elements of infrastructure: Systems, people and money, and the glue that ties those three together and empowers them to reach their potential: corporate culture. Creating a positive corporate culture is a process, not an event. Here are three essential keys. Check out the XI (Excellence & Influence) On-line Community /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27746487

Is Your Christian Business Excellent? 09/05/2023

Is Your Christian Business Excellent? Throughout the Bible, the people of God who were business people were invariably excellent at their business. Yet, much of our contemporary Christian culture expects mediocrity from Christian organizations. Should a Christian business strive for excellence, and, if so, what does that look like? (Excellence & Influence) -- An online community promoting excellence & Influence with content and connections. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27613002

Can Your Business Have a Greater Impact for The Kingdom? 08/29/2023

Can Your Business Have a Greater Impact for The Kingdom? Most Christian business people are woefully ignorant of the impact their businesses can have for the Kingdom. God designed business to be a powerful force in the Kingdom. A Christian business is a powerful ministry. Let's dig into the details of this idea. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27355155

On Christian Business Culture 08/22/2023

On Christian Business Culture There is a pattern for the practices and principles consistently evidenced by Biblical business leaders. Leadership in the Bible often included creating an intense business culture. The right culture binds people together, stimulates them to be the best they can be, and prods the organization to excellence. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27279459

3 Essentials to Transform Your Business Into a Kingdom Entity 08/15/2023

3 Essentials to Transform Your Business Into a Kingdom Entity Christian-owned businesses have a huge potential to impact their communities. But, ‘business as usual’ will not help you realize that potential. In order to nudge your business in the direction of becoming a Kingdom business, you’ll need to build these three practices into your business routines. Holy Spirit resources: /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27267861

When You Change the Structure, You Change Everything 08/08/2023

When You Change the Structure, You Change Everything If you want to improve the productivity of your organization, and particularly your sales team, focus first on the structure. When you change the structure, you change the behavior of the people who operate within that structure. Let me explain /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27192888

To What Extent Ae You Growing Through New Ideas? 08/01/2023

To What Extent Ae You Growing Through New Ideas? In order for an individual or a society to reach its potential, it must continuously grow and develop. That requires consistent, methodical exposure to new ideas. Unfortunately, many people have arrested their development by remaining within their status quos. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27120504

Are There Any "-isms" Preventing Your Development? 07/25/2023

Are There Any "-isms" Preventing Your Development? It’s more and more popular to blame other people, or some ‘ism’ for your own circumstances. As long as we claim to be a victim we’ll never achieve our potential. As soon as we accept personal responsibility for our own circumstances, we gain the freedom to change them. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/27046062

Leverage -- How to Accelerate Your Growth 07/18/2023

Leverage -- How to Accelerate Your Growth Whether you are a small businessperson or a professional salesperson, you can utilize a powerful strategy to take your performance to dramatically higher levels -- leverage. Leverage revolves around the idea of multiplying the effects of some effort to gain more value from it. Leverage will take you to a higher level. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26988411

Churchianity or Christianity? 07/11/2023

Churchianity or Christianity? Literally millions of people have been exposed to Christ through our institutional churches. The problem is that what happens there so turns them off that they are lost to Christianity for the rest of their lives. They equate church with Christianity, and find church to be disagreeable, and so reject Christ. It’s like we are vaccinating them from ever considering Christ again. A vaccination is made from dead and powerless organisms, that, when injected into our body prevent us from contacting the real thing. That’s exactly what we are doing to the lost around us. We bring them into our churches, and it turns them off. They equate church with Christianity, and then become immune to the real power of Christ. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26915001

Are You Suffering From The Consequences of Spiritual Warfare? 07/04/2023

Are You Suffering From The Consequences of Spiritual Warfare? : The consequences of losing the daily battles to the “evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm” are larger than most of us consider. Let’s look at the impact of spiritual warfare on our businesses, our lives and our careers. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26912505

Building Biblical Principles into Your Business/Career 06/27/2023

Building Biblical Principles into Your Business/Career Western business culture is built on fundamental Biblical principles. You do not need to be a Christian to build them into your business or career and achieve greater success and influence. Let’s look at once such principle. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26842227

Are Your Sales & Marketing Efforts Like Popcorn? 06/20/2023

Are Your Sales & Marketing Efforts Like Popcorn? How do you effectively and consistently grow your business? One common mistake is to pursue a strategy I call popcorn, instead of building a solid sales system. See if this describes you. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26842428

Is the Loss of Discipline an Opportunity for You? 06/13/2023

Is the Loss of Discipline an Opportunity for You? : In recent years I’ve seen a deeper degradation in the learning potential of the work force fueled by a growing inability to concentrate. I’m afraid that much of the adult population in this country has become so conditioned to sound bites, texts and tweets that they have lost the discipline to “do the work.” Like an unused muscle, their ability to concentrate has atrophied. On the one hand, that is alarming. On the other hand, it is a tremendous opportunity for you. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26776839

Spiritual Warfare in Business? 06/06/2023

Spiritual Warfare in Business? Can our businesses and careers be subject to attack by the ‘spiritual forces of evil’? And, if so, what does that look like? Can some or much of the obstacles in your path be intentionally implanted by the “spiritual forces of evil”? Let’s dig into this together. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26775111

Personal Responsibility - 05/30/2023

Personal Responsibility - What is it that empowers some people to change smoothly and effortlessly, while getting others to modify their behavior seems like moving a mountain? What is the fundamental building block for individuals which, more than anything else, equips them to successfully implement change? It is something that is becoming increasingly rare -- a motivating sense of personal responsibility. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26704128

You or God? 05/23/2023

You or God? “How much should I expect God to do, and how much should I do?” I just fielded that question from one of my CBIG members. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard that question, and I have asked it myself dozens of times. I believe it is one of the most asked questions by Christian businesspeople. Let’s dig into it. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26633925

When You Are Expected To Do Something Unethical 05/16/2023

When You Are Expected To Do Something Unethical Every now and then, almost every professional runs into a situation where he/she is expected to do something that violates their conscience – something unethical. How do you handle that? /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26565594

Are You A Second Class Christian? 05/09/2023

Are You A Second Class Christian? For much of my Christian life, I've struggled with a difficult and painful image of myself: I was a second-class Christian. No one ever said that to me in so many words, but the practices of the Christian community made it perfectly clear. Let's take a look at thst idea. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26496717

Are You Ready for The Age of Turmoil? 05/02/2023

Are You Ready for The Age of Turmoil? We all have a sense that things are changing rapidly these days. It is more serious than that. We have entered into the Age of Turmoil and our ability to recognize and navigate it will be the single biggest challenge for the rest of our careers. The XI Community. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26428710

Making a Difference 04/25/2023

Making a Difference Many of us driven by the same motivation – to make a difference. Yet very few of us actually achieve it. Maybe something is missing. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26427567

A Bit Unfocused? Try Creating a Value-Added Proposition 04/18/2023

A Bit Unfocused? Try Creating a Value-Added Proposition There are, in the world of sales and sales systems, certain practices that have such an enormous impact on the company and the market that they are in a special class of activities that call for executive involvement at the highest levels. One of that handful of activities is the creation of a value-added position (VAP). It often forms the first impression the market forms of your company, and reaches internally to pressure you to be who you say you are. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26426904

Christian Business Principles or Practices? 04/11/2023

Christian Business Principles or Practices? Do you attempt to add Christian business principles to your career/business? That’s a great start. The next step is to move from principles to practices. Let’s look at the why and how’s of that. The Excellence & Influence Community /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26352876

Biblical Business Principles 04/04/2023

Biblical Business Principles Adhere to certain Biblical principles, whether or not you know they are Biblical, and your career will blossom, and your business will reach more of it’s potential. You don’t need to be a Bible student to discover the principles upon which you can build a successful career, you just need to study the best practices of the best in your business and the two will coincide. In this podcast, I unpack the Biblical principle of integrity. The Xi Community. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26281122

Shepherding Vs Stewardship 03/28/2023

Shepherding Vs Stewardship Every sensitive business executive faces the conflict between the betterment of the organization, and the responsibility for the care of the people. Success lies in successful navigating the intersection of those two competing responsibilities. The Xi Community /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26229036

Should a Christian Business Help the Poor? 03/21/2023

Should a Christian Business Help the Poor? Christians are expected to be generous to the poor and needy. But, is that responsibility to help the poor and needy confined to individuals? Does a Christian business have a responsibility to help the poor and needy, separate and apart from that of the individuals who own, run, or work in the business? /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26139801

What Can We Learn From Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Brock Purdy and Dan Orlovsky? 03/14/2023

What Can We Learn From Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Brock Purdy and Dan Orlovsky? What can Christian businesspeople learn from Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, Brock Purdy, and Dan Orlovsky? Each of these men are living examples of striving to achieve excellence in the job and publicly and fearlessly proclaiming their faith in God in the public arena. Let’s look at what we can learn from them. The Community for Excellence & Influence -- . /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/26059659

God Uses Business to Draw Us Closer to Him 03/07/2023

God Uses Business to Draw Us Closer to Him God uses our businesses as devices to nudge us closer to Him and to build the attitudes and practices that enable our next step up the spiritual growth continuum. Check out The Good Book on Business. https://www.davekahle.com/wordpressblogs/good-book-business/. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/25985967

Afraid to Offend Someone? 02/28/2023

Afraid to Offend Someone? Too many Christians hide their faith in the marketplace. One of the reasons is the unfounded, yet common belief that you’ll offend people if you voice your Christianity. Let’s explore belief together. The XI Community for Christian Business People. Learn more here: https://www.davekahle.com/christian-business-people/. /episode/index/show/christianbusinessinsights/id/25914030

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