Every man is as lazy as he dares to be. -Emerson Emerson had it right. People do not do what is expected; we do what is inspected. Phil Parshall, after forty years of serving among Muslims, said to me, “I have my doubts about tentmaking … most tentmakers I know...
John Piper writes: For much of my Christian life I have had a one-sided view of “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15). I assumed that the verse meant only that when hard news or rebuke needed to be brought, it should be done with tenderness and sensitivity. I...
I was leading a board meeting of an organization I was a part of. We had a guest from another very large mission agency attending our meetings. This man was the #2, right hand man of the international director of that agency. He oversaw hundreds of workers on two...
We are investing several months reviewing the 4 core values of B4T – relationships, accountability, transparency and perfection. This month we continue the focus on the need for real accountability. Joy! A B4T worker recently asked me to hold him accountable for the...
Oswald Sanders writes, The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a...
Is drinking alcohol good? Is drinking alcohol bad? Drinking wine is one of life’s pleasures which even Jesus enjoyed, but if we drink alcohol all the time we become a drunkard. So if we wake up thinking about drinking and drinking then becomes a driving force in our...
