This is a guest post by a B4Ter in E Europe. When we moved to a new town in 1995 to start a factory, we met a little girl named Sara. We lived on her street, and she was 11 years old—the middle child of 9 children. Sara’s family was in poverty during the country’s...
This is part 16 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. If Jesus has come to make ALL things new (Revelation 21:5), by extension that means ALL things, right? We often treat “ALL things” as only the human soul. When we launch people overseas just for...
Dr. Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages was so revolutionary and so practical that these five categories are today in the working vocabulary of most Christians. This is an amazing accomplishment on his part. Chapman identifies five main “languages” that...
In the book If It Ain’t Broke…Break It!, Robert Kriegel shares a story I’ve never forgotten. I knew all about focusing on strengths and not emphasizing weaknesses, I had read the research, I had even written about it. Yet it slipped my mind when dealing with...
I have been thinking lately what a work for God it is, just loving people. -Lilias Trotter I was fresh out of the University of Oregon and did not even know if I’d like kids, as I’d not been around any for years. But my home church in Milwaukee needed a Youth Pastor...
Six miles and 15 minutes later, I’ve not moved one foot. Pedaling at a steady almost methodical pace, the sweat is now streaming off my head; the air enters my lungs in bursts. I keep peeking at the screen to see how much longer I need to push myself. I like to use...
There are few closed doors to doing business. The opportunities are as wide as a man's ingenuity, as deep as his character, and as high as his faith in God.
