From Pulpit to Publisher: Dr. Philip Nation on Hearing God in Business on Exploring the Marketplace (S:5 - Ep: 5)
Exploring the Marketplace
Charisma Podcast Network
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson sit down with Dr. Philip Nation, VP-Publisher at Thomas Nelson Bibles. With a rich background as a pastor, church planter, professor, and author (*Habits for Our Holiness*), Dr. Nation shares how his faith has guided him through both ministry and the business side of Christian publishing.
Now leading a Bible imprint within a global, for-profit company, Philip opens up about the tension between spiritual leadership and corporate responsibility, the challenges of pride, and the supernatural increase in Bible sales. His story is a powerful testimony of aligning marketplace work with Kingdom purpose.
Tune in for an inspiring conversation on hearing God in business, surrendering to His process, and walking in humility even at the top.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Explore the Marketplace, a podcast all about how faith impacts our guest careers and lives. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Sean Bowles here with my co-host. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Bob Hastin, and we're here to bring you unfiltered, powerful conversations with industry leaders, |
| 0:12.1 | entrepreneurs, and culture shapers for living out their faith in extraordinary ways. |
| 0:16.5 | From a billion-dollar boardrooms to creative industries, we reveal how God is moving through |
| 0:21.2 | everyday ordinary people just like you. |
| 0:24.2 | And this podcast will give you courage, which is our goal. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, these are the stories you don't get to hear on Sundays. |
| 0:29.1 | Plus, we get to dive deep in the latest trends in business, finance, entertainment, and politics, |
| 0:34.0 | giving you real insight from a kingdom and biblical perspective. |
| 0:37.0 | This is where faith meets influence. |
| 0:38.9 | This is exploring the marketplace. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.7 | It's going to be a meaningful one. |
| 0:48.5 | Sean, what are we talking about in Real Talk? |
| 0:50.9 | I love Real Talks. |
| 0:52.1 | And we get to ask each other, is it even worth a publisher to build a |
| 0:55.4 | platform or to create something new when the market feels so oversaturated and social media feels so |
| 1:00.0 | impossible to break into right now? And publishing is it fading kind of. I mean, we've seen like a lot |
| 1:05.7 | of publishers and whether there's books or movies or TV shows, it's hard. But here's the truth. |
| 1:09.8 | God's still giving people a voice and there's more ways than ever to bring the kingdom influenced in the culture of all types. And we're going to share some stories of encouragement to help you keep building. Yes, Bob, we're doing it. Okay. Well, that's cool. It's a good thing that we're talking about that because we're sitting down with Dr. Philip Nation, one of the voices behind |
| 1:28.1 | Thomas Nelson Bibles. It's going to be amazing. Yeah, he's such a pillar in publishing. And did you |
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