Imperial Valley Christian Center

            The Bible word “righteousness,” and the related words “justify,” “justification,” etc., are the most important words in Western, i.e. Roman Catholic and Protestant, Christianity, but it turns out, “righteousness” doesn’t even necessarily mean “righteousness.”
 

            The problem shows up most clearly in 2 Corinthians. In chapters 8 and 9 Paul is writing to the Corinthians about raising money to help the Christians in Jerusalem. Paul finishes by telling them that the more they give, the more they will receive:

 A wonderful online talk by Guy Kawasaki about how to be an entrepreneur. Guy Kawasaki is very well known in Macintosh Computer circles as the Mac Evangelist. He began working for Apple Computer when they were first developing the Macintosh computer and his job was to "evangelize" programmers to write software. Since then he has gone on to start a "venture capital" firm which invests in technology companies.

This talk is apparently based on his book, The Art of The Start. He covers 10 points to starting your venture. I think these points apply to any kind of venture, a for profit business, a non-profit business or even a ministry. Here are the 10 points with brief comments in parenthesis by yours truly: