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We have a special guest on the show today Chris Lim, you can find him on Twitter @meritandgrace and you can find his company Theotech at www.theotech.org. We discuss his career at Amazon, how he has learned to depend on God through his experience founding his company, and a special encouragement to the church. Chris Lim’s blog and translation services product Spf.io

Get more of the Westminster Confession of Funk at the WCFunk podcast, hosted by CrossPolitic. Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. Visit Jovial Press for more.

Let’s discuss how to enter the promise of rest and a stress free life.

Let’s talk about what to do when you feel like you’re an impostor in your position and someone is going to find out you are a fraud and don’t deserve your success.

Let’s discuss why data quality matters, why you should always ask questions, and present data in a clear articulate way.

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On today’s show we talk about Trump’s comments about Dr. Ford, and dive into the closeted liberalism that we are seeing in mainstream evangelicalism!

YouTube Video Let’s go through a case study based on an article written by Warren Shoulberg Senior Editor of Forbes. Article: Pier 1 is sinking  These are the facts of the case: “Unfortunately, the disaster befalling the home furnishings retailer… [is] result of man-made decisions and circumstances that are increasingly making its long-term (maybe even short-term) prospects look pretty gloomy… Another rotten quarter – …increased losses and failure to meet even the most pessimistic of forecasts… the stock has lost half its value since the start of the year… Pier 1 has been awash in problems for a generation but the difference this time is that most retailers that sell home furnishings… are having pretty decent years, benefiting from demographics, a good housing market and an overall economy that play to the segment’s strengths… How did the retailer get lost at sea? Let us count the ways: 1. First off there is a physical store base that reflects a different era in retailing… vastly overstored for the current retail climate. Many of those locations are free-standing, often in mall adjacency areas, but as its no longer a destination store it has none of the advantages… 2. Starved for cash over the past decade, the stores have grown tired and rundown. Competitors like Target are spending billions to update their physical plants, Pier 1’s budget has significantly fewer zeroes. 3. Layouts are cluttered, not particularly intuitive to shop and merchandise classifications are oddly over-assorted in some areas and under represented in others. Furniture floor samples are sometimes broken, damaged or otherwise uninviting to shoppers. 4. While about a quarter of the company’s sales are now online, that drastically trails competitors that get half their sales through the web. a. The company is still paying for shutting down its e-commerce operation years ago during a particularly nasty cash crunch. 5. Earlier this year the CEO said the company realized, after doing some research, that it had misjudged its customer profile and was targeting a much more upscale shopper than the people in fact who bought at the store. It’s not clear what’s more troubling: not knowing your customer…or admitting it.”

We had the pleasure of having Dr. Michael Kruger, President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary Charlotte, to discuss liberalism and its infiltration into the church. Below is an excerpt from his blog and you can find more on The 10 Commandments of Progressive Christianity by following this link: The abiding presence of liberal Christianity struck me the other day when I came across a daily “devotional” from Richard Rohr. Ironically, it was entitled, “Returning to Essentials.”  And that devotional listed out 10 principles that Rohr thinks Christianity needs to embody (his list is actually drawn from Philip Gulley’s book, If the Church Were Christian). As I read over this list, I realized that it is essentially a confessional statement of liberalism (while, at the same time, pretending to deplore confessionals statements).  It was, more or less, a “10 commandments” for progressive Christianity. And when you read these 10 commandments, they sound not so much like they were gathered on the mountain top but rather in the university classroom.  It’s less about God revealing his desires, but more about man revealing his.  It’s less Moses, more Oprah. But take note:  each of these commandments is partially true.  Indeed, that is what makes this list, and progressive Christianity as a whole, so challenging.  It is a master class in half-truths which sound appealing on the surface until you dig down deeper and really explore their foundations and implications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV6qSDkQ-l8 Let’s discuss with my wife Kelli what it’s like to be an entrepreneur’s spouse, the emotions, the support, and her role she had to support the family and the business.

Welcome to this episode of The Westminster Confession of Funk. A Podcast about storytelling, fatherhood, music, poetry, food, literature, the creative process, theology and the perils of trying to live the good life. I am Jason Farley, author, teacher, pastor, and publisher at Jovial Press. Get more of the Westminster Confession of Funk at the WCFunk podcast, hosted by CrossPolitic. Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. And visit Jovial Press for more.

Let’s discuss with my wife her career in Commercial Property Management. We discuss what to expect in a career in property management and what trends there are in the industry for those looking for a new property for you business or company.

Let’s talk about the new USMCA/NAFTA deal Trump made with Canada and Mexico.

Let’s discuss how to not be greedy in a capitalistic society when pursuing a successful business and/or career.