Whitestone Podcast

In your work life, your church life, and your personal life, are you most focused on your leadership or your stewardship? Is there a difference, or is there a gap between the two, as happens so often? Join Kevin as he helpfully contrasts the very real gap that is common in many organizations regarding its perceived leadership versus its long-term stewardship and the failure that results.  // Downl...

Daniel’s life is full of examples of God using him to proclaim truth-filled “links to the future.” Like a hyperlink that takes readers to a new webpage they’ll find helpful, is your life also providing the effective gospel-truth links to those around you? Join Kevin as he uses several of the narratives in Daniel’s life to lay the groundwork for how we are equipped to communicate God’s links to the...

In your life, do you think you are more of a “patient” person or an “urgent” person? OK, got that, but what does God specifically call you to be—for the Kingdom, for your family, and for your workplace? Join Kevin as we explore the very effective patient urgency that God calls all believer to in their lives! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at w...

John Boyd was an amazing man who was a groundbreaking influencer at a very high level in several key areas. But he wasn’t alone: how about Jesus, the Apostle Paul, Martin Luther…and you?  Join Kevin as we set the stage for understanding how God has positioned us all to be groundbreaking influencers. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone...

Do you live a life of few regrets? If so, are you really good at assessing your personal opportunity costs? What guidance does the Bible have that helps us lead lives of few regrets? Join Kevin as we explore the very helpful world of opportunity-cost, God-guided thinking! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

God completely upended the whole idea of ownership—but can we tell that by Christians’ lives? Join Kevin for an exciting trip as we look at a number of Scriptures that corral the whole idea of ownership for the Christian—both for the kingdoms of this world and the Kingdom of God. Where will you land on the idea of ownership? // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PD...

Have you identified and kept up with the key dimensions that can enable you to be a world-class steward for both your workplace and for the Kingdom? Frankly, if you’re not doing that, others are and you are falling behind. Join Kevin as he details four key areas that have led to widespread prosperity in the modern era and can also lead to your own powerful impact!  // Download this episode's...

Are you one of those people who happily left studying history long ago? Please reconsider—understanding history well is vital to good decision-making! In fact, you are receiving history right now and you are living out history right now! The question is, are you receiving and living well, in service to truth…or are you in service to something actually quite deficient? Hear Kevin’s fruit-bearing ta...

Do you have the vital personal and workplace skills of distinguishing between need and demand ? Whether you are innovating at your workplace or starting a new business or proclaiming the gospel, this skill is vital. Join Kevin as he applies dust-shaking to all areas of life! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

Some big waves in life are calamities. Some big waves in life are opportunities. But we can drown in a little bitty wading pool, let alone a big wave. Are you ready and willing to surf the biggest waves in life? Are you ready to disciples other in doing that, too? Join Kevin on the waters today as we explore the story of Daniel and his life’s biggest waves. // Download this episode's Applicat...

Let’s face it, there are few things more frustrating than needing to get something done and your path to the end is stopped by incompetence. What are the sources of the competence for so many organizations? How do you handle incompetence? How did Jesus teach about this issue? Join Kevin as he identifies key sources of the incompetence that torpedoes stewardship and how God handles that very issue....

When you make decisions, on whose behalf are you working? In other words, who do you really work for every day? When you work for God, how does that really look? Like a Pharisee? Like Daniel? Like Jesus? Join Kevin as he explores the ideas of motives and self-righteousness and witness in our walk with Jesus in the workplace. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PD...

Do you know a Christian who has a nagging sense of a lack of victory in a key season of life? Perhaps that’s something that has even plagued you in your walk with Jesus. Falling out of a victorious mindset happens a whole lot for Christians! So what the antidote? Join Kevin as he provides the reliable path for residing in the victory won on our behalf by Jesus at the Cross. // Download this episod...

How long has it been since you’ve considered the essential importance of the “limited liability” embedded in so much of what we do? For business? For society? For treasures in heaven? Excuse me, did you say limited liability …what’s that even mean? Join Kevin as he opens up a conversation about this little-discussed but vital feature of everyday life. // Download this episode's Application &a...

What do you think is a tougher competitive landscape—sports or business? Well, we’ll never get full agreement on that, but, of course that’s what makes for a great discussion! Join Kevin as he takes a look at the significant differences between competition in sports and competition in business. And, of course, we’ll finish with the Kingdom’s uniqueness to top it all off! // Download this episode&a...

What assumptions have you embedded in all your decision-making that can be fatal to your results? Do you routinely challenge your key thinking? Do you gladly embrace needed change? Like the Russian dolls, we all have established “nestings” that serve our purposes, for better or for worse. And we are all challenged to keep up with new nestings that are emerging. Join Kevin as he frames a path for g...

Have you ever heard the phrase believe the best, expect the worst ?  Well, that’s one of the keys for the effective leader of a healthy organization. And we can see God’s hand using the same principle. Join Kevin as we explore the super-helpful framework for us to believe the best and expect the worst! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitest...

So, what are the key action verbs that characterize so many of the events in the book of Daniel? And just who is appointed to “do” the action, the Jesus-follower or God Himself? And what does that mean for us as Jesus-followers today? Join Kevin as we explore the pattern of seek , reveal , and speak in the book of Daniel. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF t...

Have you experienced the power of a major snowstorm and then tried to dig out? Were you grateful for any role the sun may have had in making your task far easier? Yes, the positioning of the sun in your circumstance can make all the difference. Likewise our spiritual lives. Join Kevin as he astutely delves into our positioning with the Son of God for the storms of life! // Download this episode&ap...

Have you run into people who are “blockers” who keep you from doing things you need to do in and for your organization? Of course you have! That’s bad. But sometimes blockers are good for our organizations. Join Kevin as we explore “blockers” in the journey of John Boyd, with an eye towards addressing the bad blockers that inhabit and inhibit so many of our organizations! // Download this episode&...

So, just how is a Christian’s character forged? Is it primarily by a parent, a pastor, a teacher, a coach? Well, there is a superior answer to that question, direct from the Scripture. Join Kevin in the discovery of the simple, profound, elegant, unique way that character is best developed in the Christian!  // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at w...

Do you as a leader focus more on the dotted line or bottom line? Well, those two ideas are exactly what we must address simultaneously as leaders. And that can manifest as competing stewardships. Join Kevin as he unpacks the typical tension between serving customers and serving owners—and how astute leaders resolve that tension! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions an...

Do you have a healthy, Biblically-informed understanding of performance? Are you erroneously trying to work your way to heaven? Are you going too far in the opposite direction, relying on God’s grace such that you don’t have any performance goals at all? Join Kevin as he goes right to the heart of just what rightly-pursued Biblical performance is and is not ! // Download this episode's Applic...

Have you confined yourself to utilizing the Bible only for what’s typically considered “approved” spiritual focus? Or do you consider the Bible the ultimate source for the leader in gaining uncommon wisdom for business and nonprofit leadership? Join Kevin as we look at the Bible as the business and nonprofit leader’s ultimate source for research, wisdom, and action! // Download this episode's...

How many times have you heard someone advise others to follow their passion ? Well, that may be exciting to hear, but is it really sound advice—especially for a young person just starting out? Join Kevin as he parses the idea of “following your passion” and considers adjusting that framework so as to bear real fruit. // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transc...