The Shepherd's Guide Blog

5 Tips for Parents of Graduates

June 10, 2022

300 feet. 2 seconds.

These numbers may not mean much to you, but if you were a pilot sitting on the deck of an aircraft carrier, they would mean a great deal.

300 feet. That’s the entire length of a runway in front of you. That’s all the distance available to take your plane from a dead stop to airborne, to gain enough speed and achieve enough lift to a safe takeoff. And it all has to happen in 2 seconds.

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Limit God in our Businesses

June 3, 2022

Today I want to talk to you about taking the limits off of God in your business. Christian entrepreneurs, quit tying God’s hands and take the limits off of what he can do along your entrepreneurial journey. Your current circumstances are not too big for God. The thing you’re dealing with, God has seen it before. There’s no recession that God hasn’t brought us out of. There’s not a business partnership that he can’t restore. There’s not a contract he can’t give favor to. However, you have to trust him and take the limits off of him. Limits are things that are bound or restrained or confined. A machine that can only produce 100 widgets in a day has reached its limit. A person that can only make 100 phone calls in a day has reached his limit.

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Don’t Make These Mistakes with Your Social Media Video

May 27, 2022

Have you opened your social media accounts today? If so, what caught your attention first?

Was it a puppy video? An influencer sharing about some product that they are “totally in love with and have an exclusive offer for”? Or was it a business doing a trending TikTok dance together? 

No matter what you saw, there’s a huge possibility that you consumed video content. Let’s read over a few stats on video content published to social media provided by Sprout Social. 

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