Christian Home Business Connection

For today’s Bible verse for business, I’d like to continue on in I Corinthians 13.  Last week we looked at v. 4 “Love suffers long and is kind.”  Today, let’s go on in verse 4 and look at “love does not envy.”

As we relate this to our businesses, we need to ask ourselves if we envy anyone else.  At first glance, you may say no.  But if you look deeper, sometimes you find there is some envy going on when you see someone else’s success.  I know I have to admit I am guilty when it comes to this.

I may hear of another business owner who has a LOT more subscribers on their email list than I do.  Or they may make a lot more money.  Or they may have opportunities opened to them that I would love to have.  All of these things can make us feel envious, if we let it.   We have to guard ourselves and be truly happy for others when they achieve success.

I think one of the reasons why envy is warned against in the Bible is that it makes us feel inferior.  We begin to compare where we are with where others are (or appear to be in our eyes) and we come up short.

Comparisons can also cause ungratefulness.  You might be very happy with where you are in your business until someone else comes along that seems to be doing better.    All of a sudden, we’re not so happy anymore.  We become discontented and frustrated.   Not very godly characteristics.

Isn’t is wonderful that God says all these things for our benefit?  He knows that if we give in to envy, we are going to suffer ourselves by bringing on the feelings I talked about above.   We have a GREAT God!

If you would like some more insight into what the Bible says about running our businesses, visit Christian Business Ethics.

How do affiliate programs work?  Well, this week’s Friday freebie is all about affiliate marketing and the free report I have for you explains how affiliate programs work.

Affiliate marketing can be a good way to get started in an online business.   Read all about it in this simple to understand three page report.   You can download it below.

How Do Affiliate Programs Work?

I learned of a Christian based business opportunity that I think sounds great.  I’d like to do it myself:-)  That’s the problem with what I do – I find all these great businesses and then I want to do them!  But it’s too hard to spread yourself out among different businesses – they all suffer then.  That’s just a free word of advice:-)

Anyway, back to the opportunity.  Garden Gate Cards is a family run business.  They raise rabbits who are the models for their greeting cards.  How cute is that! The cards are beautiful!  They offer the opportunity to become a rep to retail stores.   If you have Christian bookstores and greeting card stores in your area, then you might have a market.  That is what you would need to determine – the interest in your local area.

There is a Scripture verse printed on the back of each card, which is a great way to share God’s Word.

If you have been looking for a Christian based business opportunity, this could be the one for you.   You can check it out at the link below – this will take you to a question/answer page about the opportunity.

Garden Gate Cards

This morning I was reading something that brought me to I Corinthians 13 – the “love” chapter.  I felt like I should write something about it today.

v.4 says “Love suffers long and is kind…“  How can we apply this verse to how we run our businesses?

Love suffers long, to me, means being patient with others, whether it be an employee or an irate customer.  I don’t see any restrictions on this verse that says that  if someone treats you nicely, you need to love them.   I think this means EVERYONE.

Are there times you will need to be firm?  Absolutely.  Are there times you will need to say no to someone?  Yes.  I like to think of it in terms of being a parent.  There are times you will have to deny your children something or be firm with them.  You don’t let them walk all over you.  But you always LOVE them and can respond to them with kindness.

I think we need to put this same principle into practice in our business.  Treat others with kindness and be patient with them, but don’t let them take advantage of you.  You don’t have to do everything people ask you to do, but you can refuse kindly.

I know there are times we all fail at this, but I think we should set this as a goal this year in how we run our businesses.

Want to learn more Biblical princples for running your business?  Grab my new eBook while it is still at a discounted price (through Feb.3) at the link below.

Christian Business Ethics

I got an email from Joel Comm yesterday, saying that he was giving away his Adsense Secrets v4.0 among other things.  So, if you have been wanting to learn about Google adsense, now is your chance to do it for free!

Joel Comm has been seen as the authority on adsense for years.  I’m not sure exactly why he is giving these eBooks away, but you may as well grab them and put them to good use!

You will need to enter your name,  email and phone # to be able to download the eBooks.  You can do so at the link below.

Adsense Secrets and More

Well, my eBook is ready and available!  I have written a 34-page eBook giving Scriptures and insight into running a business that pleases and honors God.

In December, I enrolled in a course that taught lots of things including writing an information product and marketing it.  Our assignment for the course was to decide on a topic to write about and get it ready to launch by the end of December.

Well, ok, I realize it’s now almost the end of January, but that’s ok.  I had permission:-)

When I prayed about what to write about, I felt God led me to write this eBook giving lots of Scriptures and topics that will guide you in running a business that pleases God.  Good “Christian business ethics,”  you might call it.

Anyway, it’s ready and you can grab it now at a special introductory price of only $9.95!  Go to the link below to get your copy.

Christian Business Ethics

Last week I wrote an article about self confidence, or should I say God confidence.  We hear so much today about self confidence and self esteem, and I do believe we should value our children, our spouses and others and let them know we do.  But I don’t think that self confidence is really the answer.

You can read the article at Improve Self Confidence in One Step.

Just to let you know, my new ebook, “Run Your Business God’s Way” is coming out on this Wednesday, Jan. 27th!  Be sure to check out my website then because you will be able to purchase it at a special introductory price.

I think I may have already mentioned today’s free resource, but I felt it was worth repeating because of my experience this week.

Open Office (openoffice.org) is a completely free program that allows you to create documents (like you would in Word) and then convert them to a pdf file.

I have always used Adobe Acrobat for my pdf converter.  Until this week when I realized it didn’t work with Windows 7.  I had to get a new computer about a month or so ago, and it came with Windows 7.  I hadn’t had the cause to create a pdf file before this week, and I was so disappointed (and frustrated!) when I found I couldn’t use Adobe anymore.

I hunted for a free version that would allow me to do this, but the ones I tried didn’t allow for clickable links in the document.  Since I was updating my home business guide and needed to covert it to pdf format, this wouldn’t do because there are tons of links in it.

So, my husband started searching for an upgrade to my Adobe Acrobat, which we found there is one but it costs $99.

We prayed (when all else fails? Should have been our first choice of action) and I read a post about Open Office being able to act as a Word processer and pdf converter.  I tried it and it worked and let me put clickable links in!

So, I thought I would share about Open Office again in case you have the same problem I did or are just in need of some free help.

You can download it at openoffice.org