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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.
DISCERNING GOD’S WILL
At the recent B4T Expo several young people asked, “How do you discern God’s will?” This is a common and important question. In “Pursuing God’s Will Together” Ruth Haley Barton gives 9 ways that she determines God’s will. I have used and agree with Barton’s 9 and have...
REDEEMING COMPANY CULTURE
This post is contributed by a worker in the ME. You don’t have to let something slide for long before it becomes the new normal. Culture is what culture does. Culture isn’t what you intend it to be. It’s not what you hope or aspire for it to be. It’s what you do. So...
THE LEAST WE CAN DO
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you. Colossians 1:3. William Carey was born in Northhamptonshire, England in 1761. He apprenticed as a cobbler at fourteen and became a Christian at age eighteen. By age twenty, he had mastered...
GOD HAS AN ANSWER
Remember, for all the negative things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive answer for it. You say: "It's impossible"God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27) You say: "I'm too tired"God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30) You say: "Nobody...
DISCIPLES LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR OTHERS
Part 5 of a series of 5 posts on being a disciple. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. In one of the last conversations Jesus had with His disciples, He said, “Unless a kernel of...
DISCIPLES ARE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Part 4 of a series of 5 posts on being a disciple. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. Jesus announced and commanded His disciples to tell the people that the Kingdom of God has come...
DISCIPLES ARE ONE WITH JESUS
Part 3 of a series of 5 posts on being a disciple. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. In John 15, Jesus speaks of abiding in Him. “If you abide in Me and I in you … you will bear...
JESUS’ LAST WORDS
Part 2 of a series of 5 posts on discipleship. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. Much has been made of the importance of a person’s last words. And we all know Jesus’ last words in...
ON BEING A DISCIPLE
Part 1 of a series of 5 posts on being a disciple. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. In Matthew 9, we read that Jesus was traveling and teaching around Galilee. One day He stopped...
IS CALLING ENOUGH
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Middle East. B4T can be likened to the entrepreneurship of missions. This is mostly true in a literal sense – the majority of B4Ters are business owners. In his book, “The Founder’s Dilemmas,” Noam Wasserman of...
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