I was speaking at Le Tourneau University last week to a group of professors. They asked me what B4T businesses thought of graduates from their school. I replied, “Generally speaking, many of our workers are not pursuing graduates from Christian schools because in our...
The following is from a B4Ter in Asia, working in a hard place. His letter encouraged me and with his permission, I share it with you. The last month has included some rough realities for me, my team and for the business. There was one week that the plumber had to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
