The Christian Trader: I Bring a Sword

Tweet “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall…

The Christian Trader: Do Not Hate

Tweet “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.  And unto him that…

The Christian Trader: The Narrow Way

Tweet “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it . Beware of false…

The Christian Trader: Being Chosen

Tweet “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world [hates] you” (John 15:19, KJV). Being Chosen Trading is generally of the world and in the world. But what if God chooses…

The Christian Trader: A Blossoming Attitude

Tweet “Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was…

The Christian Trader: Be Still

Tweet “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear . . . Be still, and know that I am God . . .” (Psalm 46:1-2, 10, KJV). Trouble As a trader, trouble will soon find you. A position gone bad, a loss of Internet connection while…

The Christian Trader: Healing Your Shadow

Tweet “Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool,…

The Christian Trader: Serve God not Money

Tweet “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and [money]” (Luke 16:13, RSV).   Money is energy. This energy can be put into growth or regression. Worshipping money is…

The Christian Trader: Putting God First

Tweet “Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it,…

The Christian Trader: Drink the Living Water

Tweet “Jesus said . . . ‘but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life’” (Jn.4:13-14). Has your motivation to trade dried up? Have new trading ideas evaporated? Perhaps your…