B4T Blog
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.
TOO BUSY FOR JESUS?
This week I met with 3 Christian workers. When I asked each of them about their devotions that day, all 3 remarked that they were too busy. Too busy for Jesus?!? Yes, our jobs, our family, our outreach, etc… do take a lot of time. But all of our life, and so all that...
REST
Once a business owner went out with a few of his salesmen to test the interest in a new product they had developed. Their product was much better, but very different than the old one. They wished to see how homeowners would accept it, so they went out into a local...
FIRST THINGS FIRST
This blog is contributed by a B4T worker, working in the Arab world. Pitching…determines what I eat, when I go to bed, what I do when I’m awake. It determines how I spend my life when I’m not pitching. If it means I have to come to Florida and can’t get tanned because...
EYE TEST
In a small town in Indonesia, there was a man who lived alone and could not see. He was blind and yet, he carried a lighted lamp with him whenever he went out at night. One night, while coming home from a dinner with friends, he came across a group of young travelers....
JESUS & SCUM
Photo credit: Wooden Earth Ltd.But when some of the Jewish religious leaders saw him eating with these men of ill repute, they said to his disciples, “How can he stand it, to eat with such scum?” Mark 2:16 LB I have been studying Mark 2 this week. I find the Living...
A GOOD TEACHER
Two neighbors were living side by side. One of them was a retired school teacher, and the other was a young computer programmer. The computer programmer loved technology and loved to study and acquire the latest gadgets. One Spring day, both men decided to plant a...
LEADING BY CHARACTER
The story of the “Rich Young Ruler” is the story of a young, rich ruler who is seeking, truly seeking, the Kingdom of God. He has obeyed all of the laws, followed every rule. “Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you...
LESSONS FROM JESUS & NIGERIA
This morning I was in Matthew 7 where Jesus says, Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your...
A PARABLE
There was a huge, 3-day business conference being held downtown for which people paid a hefty price to attend. During a break on the second day, a woman who had not paid the registration fee snuck into the conference hall. She wanted to meet the Leader of this...
DO YOU COUNT EVERYTHING AS LOSS?
The following was submitted by an OPEN worker in the Arab world. Paul tells the Philippians,For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. Philippians 3:3 Paul points out the differences...
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