Bigger isn’t always better. Smaller isn’t always holier.


​Dear Sam Reader,​

1. A quick word from Zach

This week, I’m wrestling with a question a lot of Christian men in business quietly carry: should you try to grow your business as much as you can, or keep it intentionally small? I don’t think the deepest issue is growth or restraint by itself, but the motive underneath either choice.

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2. Something worth reading

Read Proverbs 14:23, Proverbs 16:8, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Timothy 6:6-19, and Matthew 6:19-34 in that order. Together, these passages surface the tension between diligence and contentment, stewardship and restraint, but the lynchpin to all of it is Jesus’ admonition in Matthew 6:19-34 - God alone must be our Master, never money.

3. Something worth thinking about

Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,
lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.

~ Proverbs 30: 7-9

4. Something worth trying

  1. Read the passages above in order.
  2. Pray Proverbs 30:7-9 for yourself.

That's all for now.

To thriving,

Zach Wise

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