by John Garfield | October 3, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Discipleship, Kingdom Corporations
I few to Phoenix for a marketing workshop last weekend. I was braced for the normal fast-taking hype, tall tales, and upsells. But what I experienced was mostly believers in a business culture of helping one another succeed. There was a younger generation of 20’s and...
by John Garfield | September 26, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
Success in the business world is typically an outward measure of the size of your business, the quality and popularity of your offering, the money you make, and the visibility you have in your sector. It’s often no different in a Christian business except we refer to...
by John Garfield | September 20, 2024 | Blog, Greatest Hits, Initiative, Kingdom Corporations
Clean food and reformation of Health Care and Health Insurance have some prophetic juice right now. I watched Kennedy’s speeches where he recommended the Tucker Carlson interview, got that, and then followed up with the audio book by Calley Means. All were...
by John Garfield | September 19, 2024 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Uncategorized
Stewardship is taken for granted as an intellectual Christian virtue. The problem is that it chains people to the concept of being a servant and treating others like servants. We all go through a maturing process where we steward another man’s vision and serve their...
by John Garfield | September 12, 2024 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations
As business owners or leaders, we’re all in the people business. The best leaders or sales staff are always personable, able to communicate and connect with people’s hearts. They make you feel valued, known, and esteemed. They make us feel like a friend they’ve always...
by John Garfield | September 5, 2024 | Blog, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset, Uncategorized
All business works on two principles: we create value in practical products that are useful to others and then we influence someone to buy. In the Kingdom we have a similar injunction to go into all the earth and to be the salt and light (also rather salesy!). Most of...
by John Garfield | August 29, 2024 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
In the motivational world of self-help, getting something for nothing is the marketing message. The something is nearly always related to making more money. Unfortunately, having more stuff isn’t directly connected to happiness and dreams coming true. You can get some...
by John Garfield | August 22, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
There is an amazing functional transition in leadership happening right now. The business payback for instilling relational sonship in our staff culture has an incentive that overwhelms our principled, professional, impersonal, and aloof identity as business leaders....
by John Garfield | August 15, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
Our identity guides the choices we make in life. The current cultural recipe is deciding to do things we’re good at, that match our personality, or that feel fulfilling and make us successful—like helping others or making money—and say it’s what...
by John Garfield | August 8, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, In Christ, Kingdom Corporations
Sons who ascend to the Council see what Father is doing and where it will lead, the intention in Father’s heart. As sons, we share Jesus’ role in going before others in awakening, intercession, and leadership on earth. Part of our role is going before others to...
by John Garfield | August 1, 2024 | Blog, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
These are raging times of confusion and change, yet there is clearly an awakening to what Father is doing that leads us beside still waters. Jesus and the early church faced the same and have a simple approach, He could see that His Father was always working and...
by John Garfield | July 25, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Discipleship, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
Self-improvement is the holy grail of business management, coaching, religion, and the whole personal growth industry. You’re already awash in the media propaganda for self-awareness, self-discipline, self-help, self-concept, self-care, self-love, self-actualization,...
by John Garfield | July 18, 2024 | Blog, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
The surprising nature of Kingdom business is that our Kingdom purpose is a huge drawing card for staff and customers. They like what we’re doing and the atmosphere in our staff doing it. Leaders realize the privilege of pulling sons into the dream of their own Kingdom...
by John Garfield | July 11, 2024 | Blog, Courts & Council, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations
We all have roots in the Spirit of Religion… where we had the answers, proof texts, and knew what to do because we know what God wants without talking to Him. We’ve read His book, have systematic theology, know all the principles and promises! Sonship starts...
by John Garfield | July 5, 2024 | Blog, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
The Old Wineskin – The concept of God fulfilling His Kingdom purpose in a business culture is new and exciting. It’s a big change in business and in our hearts. We all come from a church culture and most of us carry some baggage about what ministry is. I was...
