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Our Mandate to Rule, Create, and Cultivate By Dr. Zenet Maramara

Our Calling and The Stewardship Mandate God’s first mandate to humanity, found in Genesis, is often called the creation or cultural mandate. This foundational calling entrusts humanity with the care of creation and establishes our stewardship mandate: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…

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Stewards Not Owners By Dr. Zenet  Maramara

Life as a Steward, Not an Owner Embracing the role of a steward instead of an owner and the one in control of my destiny marked a profound paradigm shift in my life, altering its trajectory and transforming my approach to work. Surrendering everything to the one true Owner brought liberation—I no longer carried the…

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Stewarding Our Relationship with Creation By Dr. Zenet Maramara

Stewards Care for God’s Creation Among the four fundamental relationships that stewards must nurture—our relationships with God, ourselves, others, and creation—our relationship with creation is often neglected. As image-bearers of God, we are entrusted with the privilege and responsibility of caring for His creation. Genesis 1:26-28 commands us to multiply and sustain the earth’s resources,…

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The Blessedness of a Thriving Leader By Dr. Zenet Maramara

The Blessedness of a Thriving Christian Leader   A thriving Christian leader is a joyful, obedient steward of God who is blessed by the Lord. Psalm 112 paints a picture of a thriving follower of God. That person is blessed because she fears the Lord and finds delight in obeying God and his commands. Her…

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Response to a VUCA World By Dr. Zenet Maramara

The Steward Leader’s Response to a VUCA World What is the steward’s response to such a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) of the world around us? The persistent presence of Covid-19 virus may make you may feel like a prisoner of the pandemic. Or maybe you live in a comfortable bubble, oblivious…

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