Church for Entrepreneurs

Daily Word — Success in business requires your creativity. However, if you have negative emotions towards your spouse, then you are killing your creativity. Listen to today's message to explore this idea and learn steps to overcome negative emotions directed toward your spouse. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Ministry School — Are you considering enrolling in CFE Ministry School? If so, listen to this conversation with myself, Deborah Watson (current ministry student) and Stephen Hudson (graduate of ministry school) as we discuss how ministry school has been a blessing to them. In this conversation, Stephen makes a great point of not letting the term "ministry school" throw you off because CFE Ministry School will prepare you to engage with people as servants of God. Link — Ministry School

Daily Word — You are not going to walk the earth perfectly. You will mess up unintentionally and sometimes intentionally do wrong. However, in either case don't ever get down about it, but instead repent to God, take the consequences, and move on. God is not holding our mess ups against us. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed that we need to change the way we think about money. We shouldn't let money determine the value of an outcome. (Please note - this replay is shorter than normal because we edited out a few of the conversations because of the personal nature of them.) Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — Within everyone's calling are difficult moments that we must walk through in order to achieve greater levels of success. However, those difficult moments can be very stressful and cause you to become paralyzed. In today's message, discover how Jesus handled a difficult moment in His calling and learn from His example to handle your difficult moments. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — Your success is not based on hard work, your work ethic, or any other form of effort, but is based on receiving wisdom from God. God's wisdom provides you with the needed insight to succeed at your calling. Without His wisdom you are just spinning your wheel. In today's message, discover how to receive the wisdom you need for your calling. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Sunday Service Online — In any administration, there is always a succession plan. This is established to ensure the continued growth and profitability toward the vision. Oftentimes, the individuals selected to assume these roles have been mentored and trained for the appointed time. The idea of succession planning was instituted by God. He has been structuring and choosing people from the beginning to continue his administration in the earth. Jesus's mission was to establish, legislate and demonstrate how to fill God's Succession Plan. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — We can't trust God and trust ourselves at the same time. This is bad because this makes us double minded. The Bible teaches us that a double minded person will not receive instructions from God. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Roundtable — Five of our CFE Ministry students are discussing why didn't Jesus include domestic violence as a justification for divorce. This roundtable is designed to offer scriptural guidance to those who feel trapped in abusive marriages because of religion. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — We have to navigate between caring for our families and spending time in our calling. In fact, both your calling and your family are from God, thus He wants both to succeed. The tension between family and calling is not a problem to balance or solve, but just part of our life. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — I received a question from a member of our community. They wanted to know what is holding them back from their promised land. In today's message, I give three reasons Holy Spirit dropped in my spirit to share about this. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed that to hear God, we have to move our will out of the way. Once we set aside our will, we can hear God's will for our life. We also discussed that we need to get our heart ready to hear God, that God does not hold mistakes against us, and that to remove fear, we need to understand God loves us. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — I have a question: "Did Jesus miss it?" Just hearing that question sounds crazy, but there is a story in the New Testament in which it appears to have taken Jesus two tries to heal a blind man. If this is true, it opens up all kids of theological questions about the power of God. How could Jesus, who was not only the son of God but also God, require more than one time to do something right? If this is the case, this could weaken our faith in the power of God, and put in doubt some of the things we're believing for. Therefore, let's examine this question in today's message. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — There are many parts of the Bible that go against our natural understanding and are supernatural and miraculous. So what do we do with that? Well, if we doubt those parts of the Bible because it goes against our natural understanding, then we make our faith ineffective. For our faith to be strong and effective, we must accept the whole Bible and not doubt parts of it. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — This is the second part of today's open forum. In this part 2, we discuss a warning Holy Spirit placed in my heart for single ladies who are dating over 40 and 50. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — Today's open forum was broken into two parts. In this part 1, we discussed that to move forward with a decision, you need favor and peace in the situation. If you have favor, but not peace, you shouldn't move forward. We also delved into the concept that we must love the mission more than the fear, and charge the higher prices now even if clients are not showing up yet. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — There are many injustices in the world and in our local communities. However, if our outrage at these injustices goes unchecked, we will pull ourselves away from our calling. Instead, allow your calling to dictate your outrage and response to an injustice. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — If God has called you to start a ministry, a question that comes up is: should you profit from your ministry or should you just minister without asking people to sow into your ministry. Listen to today's message to examine this question from a scriptural viewpoint. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Sunday Service Online — Speaking in tongues is one of those Bible concepts that feels a little out there and has many doctrinal interpretations and debates, which cause some Christians to shy away from it. However, speaking in tongues is not complex and is a powerful prayer method for the success of the calling God has given you. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — Has God called you to start a ministry? If so, how should you fund it? Should you rely on people giving or should you sell stuff? Well, this is a big question for lots of ministries. In today's message, I share insight on how to determine if you should or shouldn't sell products and services to fund your ministry. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — I am answering a question from one of our listeners. The question is, "How do I say no to well-meaning people?" The scenario behind this question is that well-meaning people are giving them advice on what they should do to make money so they can provide for their family. However, this advice goes against the calling God has given them. Listen to today's message to discover the danger of following the wrong advice from well-meaning people, and learn how to gently (but firmly) tell them no. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — One of our Church for Entrepreneurs' members asked me to address a question in his marriage. He is considering divorcing his wife and is wondering if there are a time and season for divorce. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed that we must filter wordily knowledge of business success through a kingdom lens because God's ways of success in business are different. We also discussed how to handle people who question your decision to leave your job, how to know which plans are from God versus which plans are from you, and a few other interesting topics about your calling. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — When you are in need of money for your family, God may give you a business idea that is all about making money so you can get out of financial lack. If you don't realize this, you could over-spiritualize and complicate God's instructions, which could potentially cause the business idea God gave you to fail. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — I am answering a question from one of our listeners. The question is, "Should Christians be secretive in business dealings?" The scenario behind this question is that this listener and their cousin are starting a Christian radio station. They want to purchase a radio commercial in an effort to learn about the process of selling radio air time and commercials. However, they don't want to reveal to the radio station the real reason behind the purchase of the commercial. They are wondering whether, as Christians, can they be secret shoppers (in a sense), or should they be transparent about their motives? Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — Today we tackled the topic of dealing with grief over loved ones who have passed away, especially when we have prayed for their healing. We also address the reality that, in this season of growth, we need to have patience because growth takes time, consistency, pressure, and stretching. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — A question that comes up a lot is about business plans. Many business textbooks espouse their necessity. However, if God places an idea in your heart for the marketplace, do you need to develop a business plan to implement it? Listen to today's Daily Word to work through the scriptures with me to answer the question, "Do I really need a business plan?" Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — As entrepreneurs who believe in Jesus Christ, we are not going to work only around Christians. This is the case whether it is your own business or you are working for someone else. Most of us are going to be working around and in sinful organizations. However, while you are there, you are going to have an effect on the culture or you are going to conform to their culture. In today's Daily Word, we examine this issue by using Lot's time in Sodom and Gomorrah as a case study. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Sunday Service Online — We are continuing our series on Biblical principles to create business success. In this second message, we are learning that it is better to start than to plan. When you first start a new business or add a new product to an existing business, any projections about the future are just a guess. Once you have a "God Said," it is better and more effective to start moving on the "God Said" instead of spending months developing a plan before you start. As you act on "God Said," the plan will be revealed as you go. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — There is a big question among believers about following the Law from the old convent verses not following it because we are now under Grace. After researching the scriptures, I am comfortable saying that as new testament believers, we are under Grace, not Law. However, does this mean we can do anything we want? Well, no. Listen to today's message and learn how we do what is right because of Grace and not because of Law. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Pastoral Chat — God isn't trying to pull us out of our comfort zone—He's trying to get us into our comfort zone. In your comfort zone, you wake up excited to start the day. If you feel God stretching you, then He is stretching you to come more alive in your comfort zone. He's stretching all of us to dominate our comfort zone. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — A question I get a lot is "Are believers required to tithe?" It is a simple question, but this question has caused church splits and furious debates. Some say yes and others say no. In today's Daily Word, we will walk through the scriptures together with the goal of answering this question. At the end of this message, I will share which side I come down on regarding the question of whether there is a requirement for believers to tithe. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — I received a question from a listener who asked, "How do I get out of debt?" Well, the common answer is to cut expenses and live below your means. However, that is only part of the solution. The other half (probably the most important half) of the solution is to make more money. When we look at the scripture, the answer God gave us to get out of debt is to make more money through the blessing on the works of hand. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed that God has created us with unique skills and He wants us to go deep into them. Instead of getting better at our weaknesses, we are to maximize our gifts. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — God gives us assignments that are for a moment, season, or lifetime. As we are doing an assignment, we may not know which time frame it falls into. Therefore, it is important to stay connected to Holy Spirit and not assume an assignment from God is forever so that we can be open to hearing if (or when) a change in assignment comes. This is important because God's anointing for success follows His assignments. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — This message is to help us identify the mental storms in life, and for professionals to understand and respect the spiritual as well as the emotional relational and physical realms of life in the healing of Christians experiencing mental health issues. How does our spiritual health intersect with our mental health? How do we know if we should go see a counselor, ask for a prescription from the doctor, go to the pastor or ask for prayer? Is there ever time we might need to be delivered from a demon. These questions have traditionally not been talked about in church, The church must continue to have conversations with professionals and members suffering from mental issues to serve and minister more effectively. There is still so much to learn regarding the misunderstanding and misdiagnoses in the mental health arena. Sin, Distressing feelings and demonic influence described in the Bible, How do we as Christians respond with these issues today? A spiritually healthy Christian Prays, seeks understanding from the Word and seeks fellowship with God and others. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — Today Holy Spirit encouraged us to keep moving forward regardless of what our bank account says. It's time to grow. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — In many action movies, the villain is the CEO of some large company that's trying to take over the world or do harm to make more profits. This is the case because society has bought into the myth that business is bad, so business is vilified. Even many in the church see pursuing business ventures as ungodly. However, what does the Bible say about business? In today's Daily World, we are examining the scriptures to determine if doing business is Biblical. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — God has given you a calling for which He desires you to succeed at. However, as much as God desires for you to succeed, Satan desires for you to fail. Therefore, Satan will send many attacks your way that are designed to stop your calling and/or are fashioned to tempt you to give up. A major way we can stop his attacks is to put on the full armor of God. This is practically done by living a life following the ways of God. While living "right" doesn't save us, it can offer protection against the attacks of Satan. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Sunday Service Online — We are starting a new series on Biblical principles to create business success. To get us started, we are learning the most important Biblical success principle for business: the only good reason to start a business is because "God Said." If you start a business for any other reason, then that business will eventually fail. Failure doesn't necessarily mean it won't make money—failure also comes in the form of anxiety or a lack of peace. Without a "God Said," you are doing business by yourself without God. Business directed by God, on the other hand, creates financial success and peace. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — There are times when we need to take that entrepreneurial journey on our own. When we need to prove God for ourselves. His faithfulness, the wisdom found in His word and we need to learn to hear His voice on our own. We will get to the place where we trust Him in all things, and trust that fact the He has called you to accomplish what He placed in your heart. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — Jesus died to Sin, Once and for ALL. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — You will be encouraged so you can always have assurance in the Lord. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed that when God gives you an assignment, you don't need to know why He gave you that assignment. Needing to know why can cause you to second-guess your actions, create stress, and make you unsuccessful. We also discussed that we have to change the way we think, ensuring that we are kingdom-minded rather than worldly-minded. For example, the world says that you are successful when you make a certain amount of money. However, in God's kingdom you are successful the moment you act in obedience to an instruction from God. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — Dispite the opposition, take action and keep moving. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Pastoral Chat — There's a lie in entrepreneurship culture that I want to expose. It's a lie from Satan. A lot of entrepreneurs are starting businesses because they're chasing after financial freedom. I call this a lie because what Satan is doing, he's tricking you to think that you're not free. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — The challenge of walking out a dream or vision is often deferred out of fear and procrastination because we lack the understanding of the path to walk or the "How To." However, when we walk with God as our guide, our path becomes clear. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Open Forum — We discussed how following God's word brings us peace, but adding our words to God's words creates confusion. We also discussed what does the Bible say about re-marriage. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — As believers we may find it hard to have faith at times, especially when hard season's come. Although we shouldn't be move by what we see, it can be a challenge at times. But we have to remember the word of God and apply it, even when our faith is weakened. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership

Daily Word — We will journey through the word of God identifying, speaking, believing, and trusting that we receive the promises he has for those that believe. Links — Sunday Services, Online Community, Partnership