Building wealth is about so much more than eliminating debt. Most of the time, successful real estate investing requires using debt as leverage to purchase properties. Leverage in real estate allows...
Leadership Phases: Submerge, Emerge, and Converge
Can you see the forest for the trees? Or do you tend to get so caught up in daily details that you lose sight of the overall picture? When thinking about our purpose and God’s calling, it’s...
Should I Flip Houses? Pros and Cons
If you’ve ever tuned in to HGTV, you’ve probably asked yourself the million-dollar question, “Should I flip houses?” Experienced real estate investors know that fix and flips are worth considering....
How to Inspect a Property
In the 1986 movie Money Pit, a young couple is on the search for an affordable home. They can scarcely believe it when a beautiful mansion is on the market for a ridiculously low price. However, as...
How to Turn Leads Into Customers
If you're involved in business, ministry, real estate, advertising, or social media, you will need a marketing funnel. A marketing funnel is the process that shows you how to turn leads into...
The Wilderness of Wealth Building: A Foundation of Faith
Before you can be really good at something, you must be willing to be really bad at it. At each level of growth, there is an inevitable learning curve. For example, if you want to learn a new...
7 Keys for Effective Business Management
Proverbs 4:7-8 holds a piece of wisdom that can benefit every Christian entrepreneur. The verse advises, “Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good...
What Does the Bible Say About Work?
At the height of the Industrial Revolution, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks. Children as young as kindergartners labored in factories and mines for less pay. Immigrants...
How to Scale Your Business: Delegation and Empowerment
An entrepreneur organizes and operates a business(es), taking on greater than normal financial risks to do so. To be more specific, a Christian entrepreneur steps out in faith and operates a...
What is God’s Favor?
How have you experienced God’s favor in your life? For me, an instance of God’s favor that fills me with gratitude happened two weeks before my grandson was born. This particular grandson (I have...
Catapult Change: 3 Signs It’s Time for a Transition
Change: /CHānj/ 1. make (someone or something) different; alter or modify. For a concept that can cause so much uncertainty, that’s a pretty straightforward definition. God calls us to seasons of...
3 Ways to Cultivate Emotional Intelligence as a Leader
LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends report showed that 92% of talent professionals and hiring managers say soft skills are just as important–or more important–than hard skills. Emotional intelligence...
