KBN Weekly Devotionals

Andrew Carnegie, the famous American philanthropist, is credited with saying, “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” At some point along the startup journey 🗺, an entrepreneur will find himself or herself faced with the issue of delegation. This is usually faced in...

You made it! After experiencing the ups and downs of the startup phase, 📈 📉 after all the long hours⌛️ and late nights🌙, after overcoming road blocks, after pushing through the discouragement, after pressing forward with endurance – you finally arrived at the profitability phase!💰

In 1 Kings 17, we come to know God as the God who provides.🙌 Israel is going through a God-ordained drought, and God tells His prophet Elijah to go to a stream, where He sends ravens to feed him and provides water for him to drink.💧 God sustains Elijah for a while with this method, and when the stream dries up, He tells Elijah to go visit...

The first stage in the Kingdom business life cycle is the start up phase: the phase when the entrepreneur launches the business. This phase spans the duration from initial launch to when the business breaks even.📈

Kingdom businesses should be all about that quadruple bottom line – profit, planet, people, eternal impact – seeking to honor the Lord with these four objectives in mind. Although these four goals are what Kingdom businesses should strive for, we need to make sure that we’re not taking these objectives and reducing them to the...

In recent years, the term “social entrepreneurship” has made its way into our business vocabulary. Social entrepreneurs are creative, driven individuals who look at major social and economic issues and seek to provide solutions in a sustainable manner. Bill Drayton, CEO, chair and founder of Ashoka, the largest network of social...

📊One of my roles as a business coach and Biblical Entrepreneurship instructor is to assist kingdom business stewards generate a profit through their businesses while remaining true to their core convictions. As important as that is, it is equally important to know where to safeguard that profit without compromising those convictions. It does...

Jesus said that in this world, trouble is unavoidable.  It will happen.  No one escapes the sting of hurtful words, the pain of insult, the harshness of injustice.  Some of us may be victims of abuse and neglect.  Still others may be suffering the brokenness of failed relationships. Jesus doesn’t call us to avoid hurt...

Babylon, an ancient city in the Old Testament between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was the capital of the Babylonian Empire. It is one of the oldest cities in the ancient world.  It was founded by Nimrod, a descendent of Noah through Ham, and known as a great and mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord (Gen 10:9). Nimrod led people to...

The Bible does not say a lot about Joseph, but the little that is said about him clearly indicates the type of person he was. Just imagine for a moment that you are God. You devise a plan to save humanity from destruction and eternal punishment. Your plan involves impregnating an engaged woman who will raise the Saviour of the world with...

Among all assets that God has blessed us with, the most valuable, and most misused, is time.  Everyone has the same amount of time: 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, and 365 days a year.  ⏰

“I’m not sure what he wants from me.  I do not want his position nor am I trying to make him look bad.  I just want to help, but it seems like nothing I do ever pleases him.”  Have you ever said these words?  Or maybe you said something like, "Why is she so jealous of little me?  I am nobody."  If...

As businesspeople and stewards, we understand invoices, bills, payments, debt, and what it means to settle an account. Jesus does too.✍️ In Matthew 18, Jesus responds to Peter’s question with the story of a king who decided it was time to zero out his accounts receivable.  As this king started to tackle each line item, he came to...

Do you realize that the number one cause of sin in the life of most Christians is not the devil but a lack of self-control? We constantly blame the devil for things that we have the power to control ourselves. ✊Self-control is one of the characteristics of the Fruit of the Spirit. It doesn’t matter how spiritual you think you are because...

✙There is a difference between doing things for God and letting God do things through you, seeing Him as Savior and seeing Him as Lord. In chapter five of the book of Luke, Jesus gets into the boat of Peter the fisherman to preach the Gospel. Once he completes His message, Jesus, recognizing that Peter is a business man and that he and his...