B4T Blog
Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
OPTIMIZATION IS KEY IN B4T
Part 2 of a mini two part series. Last week we discussed why optimization is a more important term than maximization in the B4T realm. Ironically, the more you try to maximize any one input, the less maximized the output will be (and, indeed, the whole system may blow...
OPTIMIZATION vs MAXIMIZATION IN B4T
Part 1 of a mini two part series. Maximization is a much older buzz word in the business world than “sustainability,” yet it certainly has never gone out of vogue. Maximizing shareholder value, maximizing profit, and their converse maxims, minimizing costs, etc. have...
A LESSON ABOUT MOTHERS
As it was Mother's Day yesterday, I thought this reminder is worth repeating. The author is unknown. After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said "I love you but I know this other woman loves you and would...
DISCERNING GOD’S WILL
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...
REDEEMING COMPANY CULTURE
This post is contributed by a worker in the ME. You don’t have to let something slide for long before it becomes the new normal. Culture is what culture does. Culture isn’t what you intend it to be. It’s not what you hope or aspire for it to be. It’s what you do. So...
THE LEAST WE CAN DO
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you. Colossians 1:3. William Carey was born in Northhamptonshire, England in 1761. He apprenticed as a cobbler at fourteen and became a Christian at age eighteen. By age twenty, he had mastered...
GOD HAS AN ANSWER
Remember, for all the negative things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive answer for it. You say: "It's impossible"God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27) You say: "I'm too tired"God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30) You say: "Nobody...
DISCIPLES LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR OTHERS
Part 5 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 one of the last conversations Jesus had with His disciples, He said, “Unless a kernel of...
DISCIPLES ARE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Part 4 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. Jesus announced and commanded His disciples to tell the people that the Kingdom of God has come...
DISCIPLES ARE ONE WITH JESUS
Part 3 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 John 15, Jesus speaks of abiding in Him. “If you abide in Me and I in you … you will bear...
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