When one of your employees is consistently late or talks trash about others, what do you do? Do you let it slide because she is a top performer? Do you make excuses for her because she might not know better? Do you fire her so as to send a message to the rest of your...
Many B4Ters have trouble hiring the right person for the right role. Do not be over-confident about your interviewing skills. Invite Jesus to be a part of every interview and review each applicant with Him. From the outset establish which traits the job demands to...
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...
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...
I have several single women on my team and, as a single man, I have seen a number of things that have disturbed me and have made me think about authority and the need for Father-ship, or a covering, for our single women. To be honest, it isn’t only a female...
As we stand on the brink of a new year, we wonder what the future holds. Most of us probably approach a milestone like this with a combination of excitement and a bit of apprehension. We’re excited, hopeful, even dreamy about what 2019 might mean for us. For the...
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.