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Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
START WITH WHO
This post is submitted by a B4T worker in the Arab world. In his book, Start With Why, Simon Sinek lays out a central problem of companies and organizations: they start with the wrong question. Asking “what” or “how” before “why” can lead you to do so many things that...
SAFE OR RADICAL?
Around the turn of the century—the 20th Century, 120 years ago—a band of brave missionaries bought one-way tickets to the mission field. Instead of suitcases, they packed their belongings into coffins. As they sailed away, they waved goodbye to everyone they loved and...
THE VALUE OF NETWORKING
This post is contributed by a B4Ter in the Arab world. "I well remember," Hudson wrote a few years later, "how I used to wish for money and a fine horse and house when I was in the Bank. Then my whole heart was set on this world’s pleasures, and I longed to go hunting...
DISCIPLESHIP IS A RELATIONSHIP
The Injury Many moons ago, I played semi-professional basketball. One practice the other team stole the ball and had a fast break. I was trailing the play and the guy who stole the ball missed the layup, so I leaped to grab the rebound. The guy running alongside me,...
TRUE FREEDOM
In Genesis 16 we read the story of Hagar, a slave, who Abraham bought and brought from Egypt. Over a decade after leaving Egypt, Sarai and Abraham still had no children. So, Sarai decided that Abraham should give her children through Hagar, a pagan custom that was...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 3.0
This is the final article in a 3-part series on integrity in business which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. We have defined integrity as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles” and “the state of being whole and undivided.” It may...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 2.0
This is the second article in a 3-part series on integrity in business, which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. In most Muslim countries, both the people and the governments are closed to Christian activities . . . or are they? Is there a kind of Christian...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 1.0
This is the first article in a 3-part series on integrity in business, which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. We all intend and assume that whatever we do, we do with integrity. But do we? After almost 30 years living in a Muslim country and watching many...
GET REAL
Solomon writes, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin” (Proerbers 20:9). But who can say this? Others may pretend to be pure and holy, others may strive to cover up their failures in life and the pimples on their faces; but we need not go to such...
DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT?
A friend shared this story with my wife. I was watching a sculptor begin work on a gigantic marble block. He had a huge hammer and a large chisel. He knocked off a large piece of the marble block and then another, pausing occasionally to work on the marble with the...
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