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God and Money: Why Work Can Be Filled With Purpose

posted by chadhovind

The Gift of Work At the heart of Godonomics is the value and God-given joy of work. Work and labor are gifts from God. He has given us talents to develop and opportunities to utilize them. God expects us to [...]

How Capitalism Saved a Drug Addict

posted by chadhovind

I spent my day with a heroine recently. He was 21 years old. He was on the crew of my moving company. As I drove from to our new house, he jumped in the car with me. I asked him [...]

God-Sufficiency Leads to Self-Sufficiency Rather than Codependency

posted by chadhovind

When God is enough, when He is your source of sufficiency, you are content that He has provided for your needs. Rather than becoming codependent on others, you are energized to steward your life to God and depend on Him [...]

Giving Your Children the Gift of a Work Ethic So They Don’t End Up Like Captain Hook

posted by chadhovind

The greatest gift you can give your kids is a strong work ethic. It’s the type of gift that lasts forever. I love the scene from the movie Hook with Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams. A sweet little girl observes [...]

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God and Money: Why Work Can Be Filled With Purpose
The Gift of Work At the heart of Godonomics is the value and God-given joy of work. Work and labor are gifts from God. He has given us talents to develop and opportunities to utilize them. God expects us to see work as a gift from Him. God wants His people working to provide for themselves and ot

posted 5:33:28am May. 18, 2012 | read full post »

Unemployment Hurts...
Why is unemployment so high? Why hasn't it gotten better? Why haven't the national credit card of TARP, Stimulus funds, bail-outs, and buy-outs made the situation any better?   It's not Obama's fault nor Bush's fault.  Or another way to say it might be: It's both Obama's fault and Bush's fault.  

posted 5:21:56am May. 17, 2012 | read full post »

Glenn Beck, Capitalism, and the Bible
I had an opportunity to speak with Glenn Beck recently about the Biblical case for free market capitalism.  Here is a clip. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DFO7mCdkx0[/youtube] I was reading the book of Ruth again this week and struck by God's powerful record of Godly business men. Â

posted 6:48:57am May. 16, 2012 | read full post »

Breakfast With Mike Huckabee
I've pastored churches that had "red-state" leanings as well as "blue-state" leanings.  I've had the opportunity to meet folks like Mike Huckabee and Jimmy Carter.    I had breakfast with Mike Huckabee this year after the two of us were both speaking at a pastor's conference.   I was speaking on

posted 9:00:30am May. 15, 2012 | read full post »

How We Can Help Our Economy
George Washington died the same way America's economy is dying: he was bled to death by his doctors. As George's symptoms got worse, his doctors siphoned out another pint of blood--believing his bad blood was the problem. With every pint pumped from his veins, he surprisingly --at least to them- got

posted 7:51:42am May. 03, 2012 | read full post »


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