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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.
GIVE & TAKE
I am reading the book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant. The book explains three styles of interpersonal dealing: taking, matching, and giving. Givers are people who give more than they take. Matchers are people who try to give and...
IS YOUR FINGER DIRTY? A LESSON IN PATIENCE
Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can crush strong opposition.Proverbs 25:15 One of my objectives this year is to set goals based on qualitative metrics and not quantitative ones. It’s proving to be much harder than I thought! Consider patience. Good...
ENDURE IN PLOWING
For nearly three months now we’ve been studying Matthew 13, the parable of the sower. This is the last blog on this passage. If you are new to the blog you may wish to go back to November and reread the thread of the lessons we’ve been discussing. Bottom line: if a...
IN TIME A HARVEST WILL BE REAPED
We are studying in Matthew 13, the parable of the sower. We are learning that if he expects to reap a harvest the sower needs to prepare both himself and the soil. Does plowing (prayer and love) work? Do 10,000 hours really make a difference? Allow me to...
TALK IS CHEAP
We are studying in Matthew 13, the parable of the sower. We are learning that if he expects to reap a harvest the sower needs to prepare both himself and the soil. Hard ground, hard hearts, people who have their eyes shut and their ears closed. How do you open them?...
B4T – THE FINGER OF GOD!
We are studying in Matthew 13, the parable of the sower. We are learning that if he expects to reap a harvest the sower needs to prepare both himself and the soil. We’ve determined that there are two ploughs needed for breaking up hard ground; prayer and love. And one...
A MASTER BUILDER
We resume our study in Matthew 13 of the parable of the sower. We are learning that if he expects to reap a harvest the sower needs to prepare both himself and the soil. We’ve determined that there are two ploughs needed for breaking up hard ground; prayer and love....
IN ALL YOUR GETTING – GET WISDOM
How much better to get wisdom than gold, and understanding than silver! Proverbs 18:16 Get the truth and don't ever sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and discernment. Proverbs 23:23 Think about this, get wisdom, get discipline, get discernment, because only fools...
CHRISTMAS IS AMAZING!
We will continue our study of Matthew 13 in January. Happy Jesus’ Birthday! What an amazing time of the year! Luke writes about Jesus’ birth and the visit of the shepherds; And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. –Luke 2:18 We must not...
SEEING IS BELIEVING
We’ve been studying in Matthew 13–the parable of the sower. We are learning that if he expects to reap a harvest the sower needs to prepare both himself and the soil. We’ve determined that there are two ploughs needed for breaking up hard ground; the first plough is...
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