Are you ready for our upcoming Northwest Center Kingdom Business Plan Competition? The Nehemiah Entrepreneurship Community Center is a Kingdom-focused entrepreneurship training and coaching organization where Christian Entrepreneurs in various business stages from the Pacific Northwest and other parts of the US find a supportive network of trusted Kingdom business trainers, coaches, and mentors as […]

Planning is essential to business success. Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” The exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Caroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland, has been recapped in the famous quote, “If you do not know where you are going, any road will take

It all started four days before Christmas 2022. But it’s not what you think. It wasn’t a panic frenzy to buy last-minute gifts or prepare food for guests. On the contrary, I was calmly sitting at my kitchen table when an idea popped into my head. I heard God’s voice. I should write a devotional

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, – Ephesians 4:1 Do you know that there is a way to determine if your business is aligned with your calling? But first, what is your calling in the context of Business Entrepreneurship?  It is

I am a creature of habit. I eat the same things, go to bed at the same time, frequent the same restaurants, and wear the same shoes.  In Texas, we call that “comfort,” and I like it.  My wife, however, calls it boring.  So, several days ago, when the Chief Servant Officer and Co-Founder of

There are various definitions of Inflation, but the one that I like the most is too much money chasing too few goods.  When this happens, prices go up or inflate.  How do you avoid the negative impact of inflation?  Here are 4 simple unbreakable Kingdom rules to break inflation in any country or economy.  When

We’ve all watched Shark Tank and seen the Sharks negotiate back and forth with an entrepreneur who has just made a pitch. What percentage of the company is the entrepreneur willing to give up to get the money? What if you could raise money to grow your business without having to borrow money that you

Despite the Fall, we have received redemption thanks to Jesus Christ and what He has done for us on the cross. This truth of what Jesus has done for all of us should inform how we live our lives as Christians. As Christians in business, how we conduct our business should reflect this as well.

What are the consequences of the Fall? How can we, as Christians in business, create businesses that look more like what God intends? Why does business matter to God? In Part 2: The Fall, Jeff Van Duzer, author, former Dean of the School of Business and Economics, and retired University Provost of Seattle Pacific University,