Sibling strengths and synergy
My last reflection focused on Moses’ unwillingness to accept God’s call. One of Moses’ many excuses was that he wasn’t “eloquent,” he was “slow of speech and tongue.” God was angered by Moses’...
Faith & Family Business
How many ways can you (try to) say no?
November 4, 2024
My last reflection focused on the way God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, and Moses’ first reluctant response to God’s call. Well, Moses’ second, third, fourth, and fifth answers to God were...
The complexity of the call
October 28, 2024
Last week I reflected on the idea that Moses was wired to care for his people, who were suffering in slavery under Pharaoh. Moses flees after killing an Egyptian, and after some time, God appears to...
Wired to care in the family and business
October 20, 2024
As I mentioned last week, my reflections on Moses will focus on certain situations, instead of walking through the entirety of his life. But to get us started, recall that Moses, after he was born,...
Reflecting on Moses
October 13, 2024
For the remaining weeks of the year, I invite you to study aspects of the life of Moses with me. He is perhaps the most famous Old Testament character, combining the roles of prophet, lawgiver, and...
Final family business lessons from the book of Judges
October 6, 2024
In my study of the biblical book of Judges, and in particular Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson, I was interested in the idea of repeating cycles. The book of Judges is chock full of examples of Israel’s...
A sense of place in the family business
September 29, 2024
In my last reflection, Samson wrestles with the difficult choice of whether to admit to Delilah the secret of his strength. He chooses to do so, and she in turn tells the Philistines, who torture and...
Painful trade-offs in the family business
September 22, 2024
My last reflection used Samson’s weakness — his lust — to ponder our own vulnerabilities in the life of the family business. Delilah keeps pressing Samson to divulge the secret of his strength, and...
Vulnerabilities in the family business
September 16, 2024
When I decided to write about three Judges — Gideon, Jephthah, and now Samson — my knowledge of Samson was informed primarily by my Sunday school recollections, storybook pictures of Samson’s long...
From exhaustion to revitalization in the family business.
September 9, 2024
My last post focused on the back-and-forth, revenge-focused battles between Samson and the Philistines, which continue to escalate until he kills 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey....