I had just begun working as a youth pastor at a church in Wisconsin, when I was asked to serve for a week at the denomination’s youth camp for 8–16 year old’s. The camp counsellors all arrived a day early for a briefing on our responsibilities, the camp program, and...
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Arab world who has a family and works 10-hour days for a multi-national company. If you have a blog you’d like posted here, do send it to us. Most people today feel overwhelmed with busyness. It is really a fact of...
Here’s another report from a B4T worker, this time about the power of prayer. This past week I was challenged again in my understanding of just how much God cares. As you know, it has been quite a rough season for me and the business God put me in charge of. We have...
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 1 Corinthians 4:18 We lived in Pasadena in 1982. At the time the smog was at historically high levels. Sometimes you could barely see across...
My friend Bill, who many of you know, has a habit of “putting God on the clock.” Whenever he cannot find something he prays, “Jesus help me find _____” and looks at a clock to see how long it takes for God to answer his prayer. Here is a story he told me: I was...
One of the couples we mentor in the Middle East just told me this, and I’ll pass it on as a solid application for us all for this week. Last week I heard a teaching on angels and how we should make use of their help. The speaker said, “God is ready to release angels...
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.
