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Christian Men at Work Podcast


Sep 23, 2019

What You'll Hear:
  • Jeremy joined Facebook about 12 years ago and found he was spending a lot of time on it and often got into an argument about politics or college football
  • He ended up canceling his accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
  • John McArthur said social media exists for one reason: self promotion
  • You can stumble onto wicked content easily on social media especially Twitter
  • Jeremy connects with clients and people he used to work with through LinkedIn, he find LinkedIn pretty useful
  • There's an undertone on LinkedIn to keep content business related and not personal
  • His faith related comments are less on Christian doctrine and more on Biblical worldview
  • You can have a company page on LinkedIn, you could use that for a ministry you're involved in
  • "Abraham Kuyper said that there's not one single square inch of creation that Jesus Christ doesn't look upon and say 'mine'"
  • Jeremy became CFO for a home builder and started doing real estate deals in the summer of 2008.
  • The builder could see the collapse coming and took some steps to prepare and went into a hunker down mode
  • "When the tide's coming in and all the boats are floating, it masks all sorts of management and accounting problems"
  • Real estate is difficult to predict and carries its own type of risk
  • "Diversification is always your friend"
  • "When you're young, concentration creates wealth, when you get older, diversification preserves that wealth"
  • Peru Mission started when a young man in Peru named Alonzo Ramirez had a sudden conversion through some Scottish missionaries
  • Alonzo wanted to go to Edinborough Seminary but didn't have the money, but a woman had willed the money for someone from Peru to go to seminary
  • Alonzo started Second Presbyterian Church in Peru which is now self-sustaining and even started other churches
  • Go to www.PeruMission.org
  • Check out the book "The Way of the Dragon and the Way of the Lamb" and "Weakness is the Way"