Photo credit: Wooden Earth Ltd. But when some of the Jewish religious leaders saw him eating with these men of ill repute, they said to his disciples, “How can he stand it, to eat with such scum?” Mark 2:16 LB I have been studying Mark 2 this week. I find the Living...
The following is contributed by a tentmaker, working in the Middle East. I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings...
Last month a pastor in the USA called me, a bit annoyed. He said, “I just learned our worker is being paid a good salary by the business he’s working for, yet we are still supporting him $2,500/month!” And this week I received the following question: My...
A B4T worker wrote me… Do you know the thing I feel most judged for in life from other workers? That I don’t have a secure email or an encrypted hard drive. Just the other day a guy from Africa emailed me and said he knows these two great guys he met at a...
The past 3 months we’ve been talking about the priority of relationships and accountability in developing better models of doing mission. The next few weeks I wish to focus on transparency. In a timely fashion, one of the guys we mentor wrote the following on this own...
When I was at the University of Oregon, I took Organic Chemistry class. The class required a two hour lab too. The lab consisted of on experiment which if done right, we were told, should take 20 hours. Our assignment was to blend dozens of ingredients precisely...
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.
