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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.
SAYING “NO” IN A WORLD OF “YES”
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Ephesians 5:1, NIV)We moved back to the States right about a year ago. One thing I noted immediately was how many opportunities one gets...
NEHEMIAH 6: Stopping the Enemy
This is part 7 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.When you have made significant progress in God’s work, the enemy will have no choice but to do his worst to stop you. After suffering through culture shock, mastering the local language, and building a network of locals...
NEHEMIAH 5: Seeing the Bigger Picture
This is part 6 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.The startup phase is not just busy—it's downright tumultuous. A good entrepreneur knows that sometimes she needs to lift her head up and work “on” the business and not just “in” the business. As such, if we aren’t...
NEHEMIAH 4: Building Under Opposition
This is part 5 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.Nehemiah gains momentum, and then in 4:1-3 the opposition arrives. It comes via some traditional enemies of the Jews, but as is often the case—like the Jewish tax collectors in Rome 450 years later—there are Jewish...
NEHEMIAH 3: Working as a Whole Village
This is part 4 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.Nehemiah chapter 3 could easily be glossed over as one of those long-winded chapters in the Bible with a lot of names that are hard for us to pronounce. That would be a mistake. There is a simple but compelling reason all...
NEHEMIAH 2: Resolving to Do Good
This is part 3 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.The King After four months of study, meditation, fasting, and praying Nehemiah stands before the King with a sad face for the first time (2:1). Arguably, Nehemiah is risking his life to appear sad before the King. For a...
NEHEMIAH 1: Calling by Calling
This is part 2 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah.We have become unhealthily obsessed with the word “calling” today. So much so that many people won’t get into the B4T game without being “called” by dream or vision or by seeing the name of a country written on a bathroom...
NEHEMIAH: Changing Careers
This is part 1 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. I recently read about a guy in his mid-life who developed such a passion to fill a particular community need that, without further formal education, left his prestigious career as a sommelier to become a community...
KEEPING YOUR FIRST LOVE
Anyone who has read Revelation is probably confused. There are, however, a few things early in the book that are understandable to our finite minds without a great deal of interpretive skill. The letters to the churches of Asia (chapters 2-3) can be helpful to us in...
MANDATE TO PRESERVE
“Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to...
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