The following was written in response to my blogs on accountability. Patrick, I have a question/thought about your latest email series on accountability. I have honestly been having a hard time thinking through these emails on accountability, and I think it dawned on...
When I was 14 my father bought me a 12-gauge shotgun for Christmas. A few days later we were up north at our cottage. My dad taught me to load and clean the gun and then said to me, “Let’s go for a walk.” After walking maybe a quarter mile down our rough...
In Matthew 4:19 Jesus says, “Follow me.” Where was He going? Did He have any idea? Obviously, He did. From Luke 10 we can see that He gave the disciples specific plans before He sent them out. In 2 Timothy 2:2 Paul says, “And the things you have...
There are two keys to accountability; mentors and goals. This week we’ll focus on mentoring. Most tentmakers fail for one of three reasons: loss of focus, loss of balance, or they burn themselves out. All three of these problems are readily solved by having a mentor...
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...
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.
