At the recent B4T Expo several young people asked, “How do you discern God’s will?” This is a common and important question. In “Pursuing God’s Will Together” Ruth Haley Barton gives 9 ways that she determines God’s will. I have used and agree with Barton’s 9 and have...
Part 1 of a series of 5 posts on being a disciple. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. In Matthew 9, we read that Jesus was traveling and teaching around Galilee. One day He stopped...
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Middle East< Sustainable Sustainability is all the rage at the moment. Everything is about sustainability, and the Church has bought into all the hype. Sustainability has its advantages and its necessity in our...
In August, at our network’s gathering, over 150 B4T workers, 100+ children, and another 100+ coaches, member care workers, investors, and mentors gathered to worship and celebrate God’s goodness, prayed over one another, shared, encouraged, and built one another...
This blog has been contributed by a B4T worker in the Middle East. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer...
We actually know little from Matthew about these men, but speculation is rampant about their names, homeland, how many of them there actually were. The three (perhaps) Magi who traveled (possibly) 1,000 miles, for (likely) many weeks, on a quest to meet the “King of...
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.
