Whitestone Podcast

This is an era that disproportionately rewards lifelong learners and knowledge workers! That’s why strong leaders leverage their time and enhance their skillsets with quality book reviews. Hear Kevin’s narrative about books and book reviews—and why strong leaders devour both!  // Download this episode's Application & Action questions   and PDF transcript at whitestone.org .

Daniel is exceedingly relevant to your leadership—in many dimensions! This episode, Kevin lays the foundation for the most important of all, your time and place. Be encouraged as Kevin refreshes how every serious believer is placed at exactly the right time! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions   and PDF transcript at whitestone.org .

General Electric was a powerhouse company during the entire 20th century. But now it’s struggling. And it faces exactly the challenges you do in your business or nonprofit! Kevin’s discusses how free markets really work and the core keys to stewardship by every organization’s leaders. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions   and PDF transcript at whitestone.org .

Just what’s exactly in play with tariffs? Is it crucial policy or just politics as usual? The purpose and impact of tariffs and their justifying public policy rationale is framed and on the table. And Kevin wraps it up with just the twist the topic of tariffs calls for: just who is the Christian’s neighbor?  // Download this episode's Application & Action questions   and PDF transcript at...

Uncertainty has gotten a bad name—everyone naturally works to eliminate it from their enterprises. But handling uncertainty with the right mindset is what can bring opportunity…even epic opportunity! Kevin flips it all pretty much upside down here. Uncertainty…good? Also—the wrong certainty can kill you…? // Download this episode's Application & Action questions   and PDF transcript at wh...

Benchmarking to greatness is the only path to sustainable success for your workplace enterprise! While many strong leaders and organizations can and should be candidates for benchmarking, Kevin builds the case for the Uniquely Best as the ultimate benchmark for every one of our organizations. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org. 

Are you in full-time ministry? Well, if you’re a serious Christian, of course you are! In this episode, Kevin dives into why and how all Christians—no matter where they work—are called to be astute, effective ambassadors for God’s Kingdom! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org .

Are you as a branch abiding in Christ the true Vine? That’s what He has taught His disciples to do, of course, then and now! But there are many other competitors to that operating in the church over the past couple of thousand years--like the Mosaic Law, politics, and cultural rules. Join Kevin as we take a dive into being a branch like us abiding on the only true Vine, Christ! // Download this ep...

Do you have what some people call a “Biblical worldview?” Of course, so many Christians clearly do focus on that. But often that very approach can and does devolve quickly—it often actually tends to cement into trying to change behaviors of unbelievers through power politics and culture wars. Join Kevin as we look instead at something better because it’s based on the “better” New Covenant—and that...

Who or what are Christian disciples of? That’s the question every Christian through the ages must be able answer clearly and succinctly. But for centuries, many have put undue emphases on denominational emphases. And now, political and cultural issues have crowded onto the platform of matters of grave concern for self-professing Christians. Join Kevin as we ask this key question: who or what are C...

Have the macro uncertainties of global economics, wars, crime, and cultural change detrimentally impacted you? How about seasons of life encompassing aging parents, career threats, and technological change? What does the Bible say about God’s assurance and our responses to these issues that can seem so overwhelming? Join Kevin as we take a look at both “heaven and earth” perspectives. // Download...

Hey, have you personally experienced God’s dramatic breakdown of barriers for the whole world? It’s true—access is open for each person to commit to Christ as Lord and Savior! But just what are the established barriers that God has broken on behalf of us? Join Kevin for an amazing journey detailing God’s dramatic breakdown of barriers for us! // Download this episode's Application & Actio...

The Bible account is clear: God gave the Law to the Israelites because they did not obey His voice. That’s amazing! But what’s more amazing is that God’s disciples this very day can know His voice by simply reading the Bible. Then they can obey that. And there’s nowhere where and when God’s voice is more clear than when Jesus personally commissioned all His disciples, then and now, to go forth and...

Modern marketing is absolutely remarkable when it’s done by capable practitioners, especially with the advent and blossoming of digital capabilities! But it was God Who actually invented the elements of modern marketing—and His ways eclipse the digital capabilities of business marketing today! Join Kevin as we take a tour of vital elements of marketing today and a canvassing of how God invented mo...

One of the elements of modern life that many in our era hold dear is the idea of empathy—the direct caring for others whose current plights are difficult. And of course, believers are commanded to love their neighbors as themselves. But many exploit the idea of empathy to indicate that the need is not for them to love their neighbors, it’s that others like the rich who must pay the price for their...

There’s a modern phenomenon in a place like America of pushing many young people into a relentless pursuit of being perceived as a leader. The pressure is on! But just what does that mean in God’s economy? Well, it means the pressure’s off! Join Kevin as we take a look at three Bible passages that help bring discernment about God’s ways in an era of omnipresent pressure on young people to be leade...

Hey, Kevin Miller here. It’s really a blast teaching organizational dynamics and ethics, especially to young people. This episode brings you a brief story about how I often introduce to students contrasting views of ethics, all the way to what’s taught in a business textbook and back. Prepare for an illuminating and entertaining tale about contrasting and conflicting views of ethics in the modern...

Sometimes American leaders invoke the idea that their policies and practices are on the “right side of history”—and that their opponents are therefore on the wrong side of history. What does that mean, that perhaps what’s popular right now is the right side of history? Or that a certain political perspective is the right side of history? Or the opposite? Join Kevin as we take a dive into the topic...

Would you let a brain surgeon operate on you as to core knowledge of their craft? Well, welcome to the world of AI in the workplace, where most everyone is tempted to rely upon AI as part of their core sourcing of knowledge! Join Kevin as we dive into the world of intentionally and wisely handling knowledge debt!  // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcrip...

Hey, do you remember the story of Enoch in the Old Testament, the man who “walked with God” and was taken up without dying? What a remarkable story it is! Join Kevin as we remember the stunning story of Enoch and learn from one of our great ancestors from the Bible’s “Hall of Faith.” // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

Hey, it’s time for yet another season of government-forced virtue ideas and proposals! From the Communist mayor of New York City to public-school employees to folks who simply want a more virtuous culture, there’s no shortage of approaches for making citizens more virtuous! Join Kevin as we dive into a discussion of the political and cultural approaches that pop up that are designed to supposedly...

As a Christian, have you sometimes found yourself angry that friends or family members have fallen into grave difficulties and God doesn’t seem to be answering or acting as you wish He would in that circumstance? In such times, have you worked to align fully with God’s ways for believers? Join Kevin as we take a look at fruitfully living out God’s ways in the New Covenant! // Download this episode...

As a Christian, do you limit yourself by not delegating your essential thinking to others? Do you know the Bible to command the essentials of God’s love, salvation, and making disciples? Or do you get tied up with opaque theories and theologies that obscure the simple yet profound purposes of God? Join Kevin as we take a look at the topic of limits and the inappropriate delegation of thinking! //...

The basic of living out faith in Christ can pretty much be boiled down to eight words: love God, love neighbors, go forth, make disciples. But do you really believe that? Do you truly act on that? How about your church and its focus? Join Kevin as we dive into the topic of “God’s Three Overarching Directives to His Disciples”…and be prepared to be either affirmed or challenged…or both! // Download...

How about God’s perfect offer that was manifested upon Christ’s sacrificial atonement on the Cross?! For two thousand years or so, the Church’s message and discipling is to be grounded upon this signature event…and God’s perfect offer to all people that resulted completely redefines risk! Join Kevin as we dive into the episode topic of “God’s perfect offer redefines your risk!” // Download this ep...