For 11 years in a row, Little League Baseball was the love of my life. Each summer most of my time was invested in practices and games. What we lived for was the game, but most of our time was invested in practice.

Some of my peers hated practicing so much that they would skip them thinking that they could show up and play on game day, but most coaches would bench them. These coaches realized that without regularly practicing the basics, these players were unlikely to perform well come game day. Without relentless infield and batting practice I would have never honed my skills enough to field the tough ground balls automatically on game day.

In order to truly live out our faith at work the same principles apply. Tough decisions come our way each day. If we respond without understanding and practicing the basics it's doubtful we will be responding according to God's standards.

Our desire here at Integrity Resource Center for 2012 is to be like that coach that each night pounded ground ball after ground ball at me, so that come game day I instinctively made the right moves to field our opponent's ground balls. We desire to encourage and equip each of you by focusing on the basics.

In the very beginning of this ministry we developed 10 Biblical Business Principles that we believe are basic to responding to the challenges we each face daily in the workplace. Each month of this year we will be focusing on one of those principles, with June and December left open for game day types of discussions. Please stay tuned so that on those game days in your workplace you will be prepared to please God with your instinctive responses.