Training. With Jesus as our model, we walk away from a structured approach to training. Jesus dealt with people, including His disciples, as individuals. He had no cookie cutter approach to discipleship. There were no programs. No one was sent off to Bible school to...
The following was contributed by a young man I work closely with. So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among...
Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can crush strong opposition.Proverbs 25:15 One of my objectives this year is to set goals based on qualitative metrics and not quantitative ones. It’s proving to be much harder than I thought! Consider patience. Good...
One of my favorite Bible leaders is Moses. He seems so real, so down to earth, so human. No matter what he did, the people grumbled. It is easy to identify with many of Moses’ struggles, right down to the time when he takes the grumbling personally and strikes the...
Three times in the past month B4Ters asked me, “How do I hire good people?” Obviously there’s no guarantees, but starting by asking good questions helps. Here’s 6 questions we use in our interviews. 1. What’s the biggest misperception people have of you? It’s good...
Oswald Sanders writes, The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a...
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.
