Profit and Principle
Applying biblical principles to the real-world challenges business people face every day. Profit and Principle takes you deep into Scripture and pulls out timeless truths about leadership, integrity, money, relationships, and decision-making — then shows you what they look like when you apply them where you work.
Each episode connects a specific business challenge to a biblical principle and gives you something concrete and practical you can act on this week. No fluff. No theory for theory's sake. Just Scripture applied to the pressures, decisions, and relationships you actually face.
Hosted by Dr. Darrell Stein, Bible teacher and host of Grasp the Bible, this podcast is built for experienced business people — entrepreneurs, owners, managers, and executives — who want to lead with integrity and build something that lasts.
New episodes every Wednesday. 10–15 minutes. Something you can use before your next meeting.
Episodes
25 episodes
Listening: The Most Underrated Business Skill - Episode 23
Most leaders have invested heavily in how they speak. Almost none have invested in how they listen. This episode makes the case — from Scripture and from the business world — that listening is not a soft skill. It is one of the highest-leverage...
Giving Difficult Feedback Without Destroying People - Episode 22
There is a conversation you have been putting off. And the longer it waits, the more expensive it gets — for the organization, for the relationship, and for the person who needs to hear it. Avoidance feels like kindness. Scripture says it isn’t...
The Power of Your Words In The Workplace - Episode 21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue — and Solomon wasn’t being poetic. This episode examines what your words are actually doing in the workplace: in the meeting room, in the performance review, in the small moment that seems inconsequ...
Planning for Lean Seasons - Episode 20
The ant has no overseer, no officer, no ruler telling her winter is coming. And yet she prepares. Because she understands something the sluggard has missed: the lean season arrives whether you prepared for it or not. Epi...
Stewarding Abundance - Episode 19
Moses warned Israel about the danger of abundance before they had experienced a single day of it. The forgetting, he said, was not a risk. It was a certainty — unless the leader was deliberately, actively working against it. <...
Paying People What They Are Worth - Episode 18
Episode Summary Compensation is the most direct communication your business makes about what you think your people are worth. Everything else — the culture, the values, the appreciation — gets measured against the number on t...
Generosity as a Business Strategy - Episode 17
Generosity is not primarily about what you give away. It’s about what it does to you and to your organization — and what it builds around you that no marketing budget can replicate. Episode Summary This i...
The Danger of Debt in Business - Episode 16
“Debt is just a tool” is only half true. The half it leaves out is the half that has destroyed more businesses than any other single factor. Episode Summary The standard business case for debt treats leve...
Managing Cash Flow with Wisdom - Episode 15
More businesses have been destroyed by cash flow problems than by bad ideas. And in almost every case, the cause isn’t that the numbers were against them — it’s that nobody was watching them closely enough. Episode Summa...
Your Business Is Not Yours: The Stewardship Mindset - Episode 14
Ownership and stewardship produce different decisions — not just different attitudes. The question “what do I want?” and the question “what does faithful management require?” take you to different places. Every time. Epi...
Keeping Your Word: Contracts, Commitments, and Character - Episode 13
The test of a commitment isn’t whether you honor it when circumstances stay favorable. The test is what you do when they don’t. Episode Summary Most commitment failures in business aren’t failures of inte...
Transparency and Trust - Episode 12
Your competitors can match your price and improve their product. They cannot manufacture a reputation for transparent dealing that you’ve spent years building. Episode Summary Most leaders underestimate h...
The Hidden Cost of Compromising Your Values
The most dangerous outcome of an ethical shortcut isn’t getting caught. It’s getting away with it — because that’s what teaches you it’s safe. Episode Summary Every compromise comes with a benefit that la...
When Ethics and Profits Collide
Ethics are easy when they’re free. The real test comes when doing the right thing has a price tag — and you’re the one who has to pay it. Episode Summary You’re sitting across the table from your biggest ...
Honest Dealings in a Dishonest Marketplace
The pressure to shade the truth in sales, negotiations, and client communications is constant. This episode is about what it actually costs — and what God actually says about it. Episode Summary Dishonest...
The Danger of Surrounding Yourself with Yes-Men
Every major strategic blind spot in your organization is almost certainly hiding in a conversation no one has been willing to have with you yet. Episode Summary Nobody goes looking for yes-men. What you g...
Leading Through Crisis
Every leader gets a crisis. You don’t get to choose whether it comes. You only get to choose what you do with it when it arrives. Episode Summary Crisis communication plans and business continuity documen...
Humility As A Leadership Superpower
The most dangerous leadership failure doesn’t start with a scandal. It starts with success — and a leader who quietly stopped being curious. Episode Summary Humble leaders consistently out-perform arrogan...
Developing Leaders Around You
If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, what happens to your organization? If the honest answer is “nobody” or “I’m not sure” — you haven’t built a business. You’ve built a job. Episode Summary Every business e...
The Courage to Stand Alone
There is a specific kind of loneliness that only leaders know — the moment when you’re the only person in the room who thinks the deal is wrong, and everyone is waiting for you to get on board. Episode Summary <...
Making Hard Decisions Under Pressure
The pressure to just decide is where most leaders get into trouble — they confuse urgency with clarity, and mistake decisiveness for wisdom. Episode Summary Every experienced leader has made a bad call un...
Servant Leadership: The Upside-Down Org Chart
he most effective leader you’ve ever worked for probably didn’t lead the way you expected — and there’s a two-thousand-year-old reason why. Episode Summary Roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement c...
Leading with Integrity When No One Is Watching
What would change about how you run your business if every private decision you made this week was played back to your employees on Friday? Episode Summary Most integrity failures aren’t a moment — they’r...
An Interview with a CEO - Introductory Episode
Your faith might walk into church on Sunday — but does it walk into your office on Monday?Most Christian business leaders believe their faith matters at work. But when pressed to name a specific decision shaped by a specific passage of ...
